scholarly journals Social acceptability of standard and behavioral economic inspired policies designed to reduce and prevent obesity

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Lancsar ◽  
Jemimah Ride ◽  
Nicole Black ◽  
Leonie Burgess ◽  
Anna Peeters
Keyword(s):  
Social Acceptability ◽  
Behavioral Economic

A behavioral economic model of addiction

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederick V. Malmstrom ◽  
David Mullin ◽  
Gary Mears
Keyword(s):  
Economic Model ◽  
Behavioral Economic

Infusions and Fumigations

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 115-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katharina Wilkens
Keyword(s):  
Ideal Point ◽  
Semantic Content ◽  
Social Acceptability ◽  
Medical Procedure ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Sacred Texts ◽  
Point Of Entry ◽  
Linguistic Model ◽  
Written Texts ◽  
Different Types

Written texts, especially sacred texts, can be handled in different ways. They can be read for semantic content; or they can be materially experienced, touched, or even be inhaled or drunk. I argue that literacy ideologies regulate social acceptability of specific semantic and somatic text practices. Drinking or fumigating the Qurʾan as a medical procedure is a highly contested literacy event in which two different ideologies are drawn upon simultaneously. I employ the linguistic model of codeswitching to highlight central aspects of this event: a more somatic ideology of literacy enables the link to medicine, while a more semantic ideology connects the practice to theological discourses on the sacredness of the Qurʾan as well as to the tradition of Prophetic medicine. Opposition to and ridicule of the practice, however, comes from representatives of an ideology of semantic purity, including some Islamic theologians and most Western scholars of Islam. Qurʾanic potions thus constitute an ideal point of entry for analyzing different types of literacy ideologies being followed in religious traditions.

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