The Agincourt health and socio-demographic surveillance system (HDSS), located in rural
northeast South Africa close to the Mozambique border, was established in 1992 to support …

In Animals as Biotechnology sociologist Richard Twine places the question of human/animal …
Twine concludes by considering whether growing calls to reduce our consumption of meat/…

Background Cash transfers have been proposed as an intervention to reduce HIV-infection
risk for young women in sub-Saharan Africa. However, scarce evidence is available about …

Rationale for study: Vital registration is generally lacking in infrastructurally weak areas
where health and development problems are most pressing. Health and demographic …

… Richard Twine is a sociologist and has most recently held positions at the Universities of …
Richard Twine is a sociologist and was most recently a Research Fellow at the University of …

… Twine, R. Negotiating social relationships in the transition to vegan eating practices. In
Critical Perspectives on Meat Culture; Potts, A., Ed.; Brill Publishers: Leiden, The Netherlands, …

… To do so, we restricted the analysis to mGFR with an r of more than 0·985 for the slope-intercept
measured GFR derivation and normal sex-specific calculated volumes of distribution, in …

Africa is experiencing a rapid increase in adult obesity and associated cardiometabolic
diseases (CMDs). The H3Africa AWI-Gen Collaborative Centre was established to examine …

This paper returns to Barbara Noske‘s (1989) concept of the‗ animal-industrial complex ‘in
order to develop and re/present it as a key organizing frame of analysis and research …

Informed by several intellectual turns and sub-areas of sociology this article explores veganism
as a practice and argues that its nascent social normalisation can be partly explained by …