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disaffiliation

Social medicine The loss or absence of social cohesion and contact with family and/or former friends and peers. See Homelessness, Mission, Runaway.
McGraw-Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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My pet project nearly epitomized disaffiliation; it was on the verge.
Dr Angela Smith, reader in Language and Culture at <Bthe University of Sunderland, who has co-authored the study Disaffiliation and belonging: Twitter and its agonistic publics.
THE mail, sent by BI interim secretary Mohit Bagchandani to state units on Saturday said: "It is hearby directed that you are to avoid participating in any unauthorised meetings pertaining to the sport of boxing in India, failing which you will be severely dealt with, which may result in the suspension or disaffiliation of your state unit with Boxing India." Thakran also alleged that BI didn't ask government employees to furnish NOCs.
Augustave ultimately illustrates the devastating rootlessness of cultural disaffiliation.
Even though many businesses have gone through a disaffiliation program and are no longer owned by the government, that association still exists informally.
If the schools do not come up to the prescribed standards in the next five years, they could face disaffiliation from the board.
Far more challenging will be the engagement of "Nones." The rising disaffiliation from religion may be part of a growing disaffiliation from social institutions writ large, a trend made famous by scholar Robert Putnam's Bowling Alone.
The poets whose works are presumed here engaged in intricate networks of affiliation and disaffiliation, and their poems challenge simple periodization and nationalist narratives.
As a result of NYSNA's disaffiliation from ANA, its individual members lost national benefits, including access to professional consultations on nursing issues, core resources such as periodicals and members' content on ANA's website, and discounts on books, conferences, and continuing education offerings.
During 2009 and 2010, the disaffiliation from SAMA of private specialists to form the new SAPPF was noted.
From the aforementioned slave narratives to immigrant stories, which often articulate experiences of socio-cultural assimilation into or disaffiliation from mainstream American life, the conversion narrative has provided ethnic Americans with a template for experiencing and representing life in a polity that has historically sought their exclusion, whether it be through slavery or Jim Crow segregation or through Nativist immigration policies like the 1921 Emergency Quota Act or its offspring, the Immigration Act of 1924.
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