"No whining": visitation restrictions in American hospitals and their impact on health care

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The restrictive visiting hours enforced by most US hospitals reflect a fundamental conflict between the biomedical establishment and the community represented by patients' friends and family. The biomedical establishment views curing and caring as distinct and separable, strongly emphasizing individuality over communal relationships. Interviews with patients, their visitors and hospital nurses, however, indicate that the community-at-large does not share this perspective. The community views caring and curing as interconnected, and patients as persons whose relationships contribute to wellness.

Social aspects, Care and treatment, Research, Laws, regulations and rules, Hospitals, Hospitalization, Hospital patients, Medical anthropology, Hospital care, Folklorists, Visiting the sick

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The singking of the Titanic and the floundering of American folksong scholarship

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The 1912 sinking of the luxury vessel Titanic produced over 100 American folksongs in the 1920s. These songs portray the ship in various was, as punishment for human pride, as manifesting the wealthy's arrogance, as irony that the shipbuilders and owners who committed faults were not as harshly punished as many passengers. Many published songs, however, were written apart from folk tradition and cannot be identified as folksongs.

Portrayals, Criticism and interpretation, Passenger vessels, Marine accidents, Passenger ships, Folk-songs, American, American folk songs

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A note on the origin and meaning of bold hives in the American South

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Bold hives is a term peculiar to the American South and refers to unspecific infant conditions. Most who use the term exhibit a belief that bold hives must be cured or the infant will die. Hives, or urticaria, is not what adherents of bold hives mean by the term. Health care providers must clearly communicate with their patients when discussing this term, since it remains active in some Southern usage.

Health aspects, United States, Diagnosis, Diseases, Urticaria, Hives (Disease), Southern States, Myths and legends, Folk medicine, Traditional medicine

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