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Item Open Access The impact of regime-type on health: does redistribution explain everything?(Cambridge University Press, 2011-09-22) Wigley, S.; Akkoyunlu Wigley, A.Many scholars claim that democracy improves population health. The prevailing explanation for this is that democratic regimes distribute health-promoting resources more widely than autocratic regimes. The central contention of this article is that democracies also have a significant pro-health effect regardless of public redistributive policies. After establishing the theoretical plausibility of the nondistributive effect, a panel of 153 countries for the years 1972 to 2000 is used to examine the relationship between extent of democratic experience and life expectancy. The authors find that democratic governance continues to have a salutary effect on population health even when controls are introduced for the distribution of health-enhancing resources. Data for fifty autocratic countries for the years 1994 to 2007 are then used to examine whether media freedom-independent of government responsiveness-has a positive impact on life expectancy.Item Open Access Medicalization discourse and modernity: contested meanings over childbirth in contemporary Turkey(Taylor & Francis Inc., 2010) Cindoglu, D.; Cengiz, F. S.In this article, we explore the increasing medicalization of birth and the surge in Caesarean sections in order to examine how this phenomenon relates to the dominant modernization discourse on women's lives in contemporary Turkey. We analyze women's modes of resistance and conformity to medicalization of birth through qualitative data from 15 focus groups of Turkish women as well as from physicians and midwives. We found out that Turkish women generally submit to medicalized birth, despite unpleasent experiences of hospital birth. We argue that the discourse of modernization and traditional patriarchy both play a role in women's submission to medicalization of birth; and we demonstrate the patterns through which these discourses collaborate in establishing the meaning of childbirth in Turkey. © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.Item Restricted Of Mules and Mares in a Land of Difference; or, Quadrupeds All ?(1990) Sollors, WernerItem Restricted Systems consisteney in field research, dissemination, and social change(1985) Schensul, Jean J.