Publications
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Improving Psychiatric Care for Older People: Barbara Robb’s Campaign 1965-1975
(2017)
This book tells the story of Barbara Robb and her pressure group, Aid for the Elderly in Government Institutions (AEGIS). In 1965, Barbara visited 73-year-old Amy Gibbs in a dilapidated and overcrowded National Health ...
Housing Market Dynamics in Africa
(2018)
This open access book utilizes new data to thoroughly analyze the main factors currently shaping the African housing market. Some of these factors include the supply and demand for housing finance, land tenure security ...
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mortality and its Timings: When is Death?
(2017)
This volume provides a series of illuminating perspectives on the timings of death, through in-depth studies of Shakespearean tragedy, criminal execution, embalming practices, fears of premature burial, rumours of Adolf ...
Introduction: 'Address as Social Action Across Cultures and Contexts' from book: Address Practice as Social Action: European Perspectives
(2015)
This is the introductory chapter of Address Practice as Social Action: European Perspectives. It is open access under a CC BY license. How we address one another says a great deal about our social relationships and which ...
Investigating the Body in the Victorian Asylum: Doctors, Patients, and Practices
(2017)
This book explores how the body was investigated in the late nineteenth-century asylum in Britain. As more and more Victorian asylum doctors looked to the bodily fabric to reveal the ‘truth’ of mental disease, a whole host ...
The Making of Islamic Heritage: Muslim Pasts and Heritage Presents
(2017)
Offering key insights into critical debates on the construction, management and destruction of heritage in Muslim contexts, this volume considers how Islamic heritages are constructed through texts and practices which award ...
Multiculturalism and Conflict Reconciliation in the Asia-Pacific
(2014)
This book is open access under a CC BY license. Japan has recently promoted a number of initiatives that can be termed an opening to the world and the Asia-Pacific in particular. These have origins in Japan's globalization ...
Punishing the Criminal Corpse, 1700-1840: Aggravated Forms of the Death Penalty in England
(2017)
This book analyses the different types of post-execution punishments and other aggravated execution practices, the reasons why they were advocated, and the decision, enshrined in the Murder Act of 1752, to make two ...
Policy-Oriented Technology Assessment Across Europe
(2015)
This book is open access under a CC-BY license. Policy-making to address grand challenges faces greater complexity than any previous project of modernization. Future scenarios are haunted by uncertainty and there is real ...
Promoting Active Citizenship: Markets and Choice in Scandinavian Welfare
(2017)
This book analyses the considerable variation in the shares of private provision for core services in education, health and social services, in the Scandinavian countries. The chapters compare countries, service areas, and ...