Social Palliation: Canadian Muslims’ Storied Lives on Living and Dying, by Parin Dossa
Bibliographic record
Abstract
S ocial Palliation, by Parin Dossa, draws insights from the experiences of first- generation Canadian-Ismaili Muslims of South Asian origins and Canadian-Iranians to answer the questions: "What bearing does displacement have on living and dying in a new land?And what kind of work do displaced persons engage with to restore the integrity of life and death, even if this is in small but not insignificant ways?" (4).The book is an ethnographic study, conducted in Vancouver from May 2015 to May 2018.From the outset, the reader is introduced to the book's activist mission, to politicize issues of life and death and expand the boundaries of palliative care to include social palliation.Through the medium of storytelling, Dossa invites us into the lived experiences of select research participants, making a case for a more culturally inclusive and holistic form of palliative care, which she calls social palliation.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.025 | 0.013 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".