Publications
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Chapter 10 Healthcare Practice, Epistemic Injustice, and Naturalism
(2018)
Ill persons suffer from a variety of epistemically-inflected harms and wrongs. Many of these are interpretable as specific forms of what we dub pathocentric epistemic injustices, these being ones that target and track ill ...
Conversational Repair and Human Understanding
(2013)
Humans are imperfect, and problems of speaking, hearing and understanding are pervasive in ordinary interaction. This book examines the way we 'repair' and correct such problems as they arise in conversation and other forms ...
Foundations of Perturbative QCD
(2011)
The most non-trivial of the established microscopic theories of physics is quantum chromodynamics, QCD, the theory of the strong interaction. A critical link between theory and experiment is provided by the methods of ...
Gaseous Radiation Detectors
(2015)
Widely used in high-energy and particle physics, gaseous radiation detectors are undergoing continuous development. The first part of this book provides a solid background for understanding the basic processes leading to ...
Statistics and the Language of Global Health: Institutions and Experts in China, Taiwan, and the World, 1917–1960
(2022)
This book explores how an international health statistics system was built and implemented as statistical practices developed in public health schools (Johns Hopkins University and Peking Union Medical College), intergovernmental ...
The Myth of Piers Plowman
(2014)
Addressing the history of the production and reception of the great medieval poem, Piers Plowman, Lawrence Warner reveals the many ways in which scholars, editors and critics over the centuries created their own speculative ...
Quarks, Gluons and Lattices
(1983)
This book introduces the lattice approach to quantum field theory. The spectacular successes of this technique include compelling evidence that exchange of gauge gluons can confine the quarks within subnuclear matter. The ...
Disasters and History
(2020)
This monograph provides an overview of research into disasters from
a historical perspective, making two new contributions. First, it introduces
the field of ‘disaster studies’ to history, showing how we can use
history ...
Supersymmetry and String Theory
(2016)
This text is an introduction to the fields of experimental and theoretical particle physics and cosmology. The book focuses on three principal areas: supersymmetry, string theory, and astrophysics and cosmology. The chapters ...
Policy Controversies and Political Blame Games
(2020)
In modern, policy-heavy democracies, blame games about policy controversies are commonplace. Despite their ubiquity, blame games are notoriously difficult to study. This book elevates them to the place they deserve in the ...