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Breastfeeding experiences and women's self-concept: Negotiations and dilemmas i...
Augusto, A.; Neves, D. M.; Henriques, V.Introduction: Breastfeeding is much more than a biological event. It is a social construction, full of cultural meanings and framed by social structures. Being, simultaneously, a natural event and a social practice, breastfeeding poses challenges to feminist approaches in the sense it may be acknowledged as an empowering practice for women and/or as a setback in the process of women's social emancipation. Often...
Dental age assessment by I 2M and I 3M
Augusto, A.; Pereira, C. PalmelaObjective: Better understanding of dental age assessment may help in cases of age estimation in Forensic Clinics. The first aim was to provide essential information on method reliability for upcoming studies using dental age assessment by second molar index (I2M), and third molar index (I3M) for age estimation on legal ages of 12 - 14 years. The second aim was to document forensic method outcomes of the Demirji...
Invisible vulnerabilities: ethical, practical and methodological dilemmas in co...
Delaunay, C.; Augusto, A.; Santos, M.The burden of deciding the fate of the supernumerary human embryo created in vitro in the context of Assisted Reproductive Technologies rests on the beneficiary couples or individuals who conceived the parental project. The beneficiaries must also take on the responsibility of choosing whether to donate surplus embryos either to others or to scientific research, or to request their destruction. Vulnerable being...
Essentialism as a form of resistance: An ethnography of gender dynamics in cont...
Santos, M.; Augusto, A.; Clausen, J. A.; Shabot, S. C.Feminist scholars have criticised the essentialist construction of femininity associated with ‘natural’ childbirth movements. Along these debates, planned midwife-attended home births stand as the typical representation of this counterculture. In this article, we present data from a multi-sited ethnography on Portuguese home births where we analyse how gender ideologies are reproduced and operationalised by fam...
El gender mainstreaming en la academia portuguesa
Sales Oliveira, C.; Augusto, A.El debate sobre los límites y el valor añadido de la intervención en favor de la igualdad de género en las sociedades en general y en la ciencia en particular, presta especial atención a las políticas de gender mainstreaming. La universidad desempeña un papel clave en el mundo contemporáneo no solamente por ser lugar de profesionalización, estudio e investigación, sino por su función de promover la ciudadanía p...
'Se estava tudo bem, porque é que eu havia de ir a uma obstetra?': identidade, ...
Santos, M. J. D. S.; Augusto, A.O parto domiciliar contemporâneo é um fenómeno raro, pouco visível e, enquanto terreno empírico, é pouco explorado. Partindo de entrevistas a mulheres e casais que experienciaram um parto em casa planeado, o artigo pretende fornecer um primeiro retrato sociológico do fenómeno em Portugal. Este surge não como um retorno ao tradicional ou uma procura de uma experiência mística, mas antes como um acontecimento fís...
Systematic review with meta-analysis : the risk of major gastrointestinal bleed...
Caldeira, Daniel; Barra, M.; Ferreira, A.; Rocha, A.; Augusto, A.; Pinto, Fausto J.; Costa, João; Ferreira, Joaquim JBackground: Gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding is a common complication among anticoagulated patients. Non-vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants (NOACs) are associated with increased risk of GI (major and clinically relevant non-major) bleeding. However, more information is needed regarding severe events. Aim To evaluate the risk of NOACs major GI bleeding. Methods: We searched for phase III randomised clinical ...
Género e tecnologias da informação e da comunicação no espaço doméstico: não ch...
Simões, M. J.; Las Heras, S.; Augusto, A.Partindo de um quadro teórico que reconhece as relações de reciprocidade entre tecnologia e sociedade como condicionantes da mudança social, o presente artigo procura compreender, a partir das análises providenciadas por uma investigação em curso, as complexas relações entre as tecnologias da informação, as tecnologias da comunicação e as TIC e o género no espaço doméstico, chamando-se particular atenção para o...