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2. Bodies folded in migrant crypts: Dis/ability and the material culture of border-crossing

Author

Galis, V. Tzokas, S. Tympas, A.

Abstract

This article considers media narratives that suggest that hiding in trucks, buses, and other vehicles to cross borders has, in fact, been a common practice in the context of migration to, and within, Europe. We aim to problematize how the tension between the materiality of bordering practices and human migrants generates a dis/abled subject. In this context, dis/ability may be a cause or consequence of migration, both in physical/material (the folding of bodies in the crypt) and cultural/semiotic terms, and may become a barrier to accessing protection, to entering and/or crossing a country, and to performing mobility in general. Dis/ability and migration have not been associated in the literature. We adopt an analytical symmetry between humans and non-humans, in this case between bodies and crypts. By suggesting an infected, ambivalent, and hybrid approach to the human subject, the body-crypt traveling border challenges the essentialist dichotomies between technology and biology, disability and impairment. The articles and reports upon which we rely were collected through extensive searches of databases/archives of online newspapers and news websites. © 2016 by the author; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.

Published
2016

5. Use of self-medication among adolescents: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Author

Gualano MR, Bert F, Passi S, Stillo M, Galis V, Manzoli L, and Siliquini R

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Adolescent, Female, Humans, Internationality, Male, Nonprescription Drugs adverse effects, Observational Studies as Topic, Self Medication methods, Sex Distribution, Nonprescription Drugs administration & dosage, Self Medication adverse effects, Self Medication statistics & numerical data
Abstract

Background: We performed a systematic review and proportion meta-analysis in order to investigate the prevalence and the adverse effects of the self-medication among the teenagers., Methods: We selected observational studies published from January 1990 until January 2014 that examined the use of self-medication in the adolescents (aged from 13 to 18 years). Keywords used on PubMed, ISI Web of Knowledge and Scopus were 'self medication', 'adolescent*', 'self prescription', 'over the counter preparations' and 'self administration'., Results: Finally, 15 articles met the inclusion criteria, for a total of 143 213 subjects involved. Overall, 50% of adolescents use to take drugs without consulting a physician. Further analyses stratified by number of drugs used demonstrated that in the studies reporting that adolescents use more than one type of drug the prevalence rises up to 63%. Only one study reported the possible adverse effects related to the inappropriate use of drugs, which were experienced by 31.1% of the females and 19.6% of the males., Conclusions: Self-medication use among adolescents is a widespread phenomenon. It would be advisable to give more attention on this public health concern and to promote initiatives, such as mass media campaigns and governmental actions, in order to make the citizens more aware to the risks related to the consumption of drugs without medical consultation. Further studies on adverse effects are urgently needed., (© The Author 2014. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association. All rights reserved.)

Published
2015
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