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Abstract Medical assistance in dying (MAiD) was legalized in Canada in 2016. Canadians' opinions on the service are nuanced, particularly as the legislation changes over time. In this paper, we outline findings from our review of representations of MAiD in Canadian news media texts since its legalization. These stories reflect the concerns, priorities, and experiences of key stakeholders and function pedagogically, shaping public opinion about MAiD. We discuss this review of Canadian news media on MAiD, provide examples of four key themes we identified (vulnerability, autonomy, dignity, and human rights), and discuss their implications for health policy and equity. Though key stakeholders share the values of autonomy, dignity, and human rights, they appeal to them in diverse ways, sometimes with conflicting policy demands. These representations offer a useful gauge of how views about MAiD continue to shift alongside changes in federal legislation. These stories can influence related policies, respond to the powerful voices that shape MAiD legislation, and have the potential to change national conversations. Our analysis adds to the existing body of scholarship on MAiD by examining post-Bill C-7 news media, identifying related health equity issues and tensions, and discussing potential impacts of MAiD's representations in news media.

The paper is devoted to the development and implementation of effective models of medical data classification by text mining for decision support in the diagnosis of pulmonological diseases in children and adolescents of the Altai Territory. Medical data contains important information about patients. Test results are usually retained as structured data, but some data are retained in the form of natural language texts (medical history, the results of physical examination, and the results of other examinations). The paper assesses the quality of the developed methods for extracting information from clinical texts. An assessment of the method for the automatic diagnosis of pulmonological diseases in a test sample is conducted. The most informative features, as well as suitable machine learning methods for classifying patients by disease groups, are identified. Many tasks arising in clinical practice can be automated by applying methods for intelligent analysis of structured and unstructured data that will lead to improvement of the healthcare quality. The results of the research indicate the prospect of using models to support decisionmaking in the primary diagnosis of pulmonological diseases in children and adolescents of the Altai Territory.

Hiding behind the lens : fieldwork and friendship with Selva J. Raj / Amanda Randhawa -- Being Catholic the Tamil way / Selva J. Raj -- Vernacular Catholicism in context. The story of Christianity in Tamil Nadu / Michael Amaladoss, S.J. -- Two models of indigenization in South Asian Catholicism : a critique / Selva J. Raj -- The Ganges, the Jordan, and the mountain : the three strands of Santal popular Catholicism / Selva J. Raj -- Health, healing, and fertility. Shared vows, shared space, and shared deities : vow rituals among Tamil Catholics in South India / Selva J. Raj -- Transgressing boundaries, transcending Turner : the pilgrimage tradition at the Shrine of St. John de Britto / Selva J. Raj -- An ethnographic encounter with the wondrous in a South Indian Catholic shrine / Selva J. Raj -- Status and humor, competition and communion. Public display, communal devotion : procession at a South Indian Catholic festival / Selva J. Raj -- Serious levity at the Shrine of St. Anne in South India / Selva J. Raj -- Dialogue "on the ground" : the complicated identities and the complex negotiations of Catholics and Hindus in South India / Selva J. Raj -- "Being Catholic the Tamil way" : responses and reflections. Comparative transgressions : vernacular Catholicisms in Tamil Nadu and Kerala / Corinne G. Dempsey -- Vernacular Christianities : Tamil Catholics and Tamil Protestants / Eliza F. Kent -- Extending Selva J. Raj's scholarship to Hindu American temples : accommodation, assimilation, and a dialogue of action / Vasudha Narayanan -- Re-inventing "classical" Indian dance with or without indigenous spirituality in three contemporary "secular" continents / Purushottama Bilimoria -- Afterword / Wendy Doniger -- Postscript : the tie that binds / Selva J. Raj

Creating a Black Vernacular Philosophy explores how everyday Black vernacular practices, developed to negotiate survival and joy, can be understood as philosophy in their own right. Devonya N. Havis argues that many unique cultural and intellectual practices of African diasporic communities have done the work of traditional philosophies. Focusing on creative practices that take place within Black American diasporic cultures via narratives, the blues, jazz, work songs, and other expressive forms, this book articulates a form of Black vernacular Philosophy that is centered within and emerges from meaning structures cultivated by Black communities. These distinct philosophical practices, running parallel with and often improvising on European philosophy, should be acknowledged for their rigorous theoretical formation and for their disruption of traditional Western philosophical ontologies

This article examines centenarian memoirs as a popular cultural phenomenon and through it the promises of post-reform vernacular history. The argument posits that these memoirs are a genre that has been commercially successful through their transformation of self and historical narratives in the People's Republic of China, in particular, the transformation of these memoirs from vestiges of state-cultivated intellectual confessions to vernacular cultural memories in the popular print market. Focusing on celebrated centenary memoir writers centring on Yang Jiang, the study develops Chen Sihe's conception of the vernacular, emphasising its shifting intersection with the political–institutional and the intellectual elite. The popular historiography emerging from these trans-generational memory "fevers" reveals vanishing modern Chinese intellectual values percolating through the vernacular ethos in the cultural industries of the early twenty-first century. The vernacular has been the post-reform locus for contesting and retaining critical intellectual traditions.