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Ben Kasstan

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Verified email at lshtm.ac.uk
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[PDF][PDF] Discovery and validation of urinary metabotypes for the diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma in West Africans

NG Ladep, AC Dona, MR Lewis, MME Crossey… - …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
There is no clinically applicable biomarker for surveillance of hepatocellular carcinoma
(HCC), because the sensitivity of serum alpha‐fetoprotein (AFP) is too low for this purpose …

Vaccines and vitriol: an anthropological commentary on vaccine hesitancy, decision-making and interventionism among religious minorities

B Kasstan - Anthropology & Medicine, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
This commentary addresses the issue of vaccine hesitancy and decision-making among
religious minority groups in high-income country settings. Recent measles outbreaks have …

[BOOK][B] Making bodies kosher: The politics of reproduction among Haredi Jews in England

B Kasstan - 2019 - books.google.com
For Haredi Jews, reproduction is entangled with issues of health, bodily governance and
identity. This is an analysis of the ways in which Haredi Jews negotiate healthcare services …

“If a rabbi did say 'you have to vaccinate,'we wouldn't”: Unveiling the secular logics of religious exemption and opposition to vaccination

B Kasstan - Social Science & Medicine, 2021 - Elsevier
Maintaining 'faith'in vaccination has emerged as a public health challenge amidst outbreaks
of preventable disease among religious minorities and rising claims to 'exemption'from …

[HTML][HTML] “A free people, controlled only by god”: Circulating and converting criticism of vaccination in Jerusalem

B Kasstan - Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry, 2022 - Springer
This paper explores how criticism surrounding the ethics and safety of biomedical
technologies circulates and 'converts' through global–local religious encounters, producing …

[HTML][HTML] SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence in a strictly-Orthodox Jewish community in the UK: A retrospective cohort study

KM Gaskell, M Johnson, V Gould, A Hunt… - The Lancet Regional …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Background Ethnic and religious minorities have been disproportionately affected by SARS-
CoV-2 worldwide. The UK strictly-Orthodox Jewish community has been severely affected by …

'I Didn't Know How to Be with My Husband': State‐Religion Struggles over Sex Education in Israel and England

L Taragin‐Zeller, B Kasstan - Anthropology & Education …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Sex education presents a major dilemma for state‐minority relations, reflecting a conflict
between basic rights to education and religious freedom. In this comparative ethnography of …

[HTML][HTML] Localising vaccination services: Qualitative insights on public health and minority group collaborations to co-deliver coronavirus vaccines

B Kasstan, S Mounier-Jack, L Letley, KM Gaskell… - Vaccine, 2022 - Elsevier
Ethnic and religious minorities have been disproportionately affected by the SARS-CoV-2
pandemic and are less likely to accept coronavirus vaccinations. Orthodox (Haredi) Jewish …

[HTML][HTML] “We've all got the virus inside us now”: Disaggregating public health relations and responsibilities for health protection in pandemic London

B Kasstan, S Mounier-Jack, KM Gaskell… - Social Science & …, 2022 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately impacted ethnic minorities in the global
north, evidenced by higher rates of transmission, morbidity, and mortality relative to …

[HTML][HTML] Covid-19 vaccine roll-out in England: A qualitative evaluation

S Mounier-Jack, P Paterson, S Bell, L Letley… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Background The UK was the first country to launch a national pandemic COVID-19
vaccination programme, which was implemented swiftly despite significant vaccine supply …