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Literature and Medicine in the Nineteenth- Century Periodical Press
(2017)
In the early nineteenth century, Edinburgh was the leading centre of medical education and research in Britain. It also laid claim to
a thriving periodical culture, which served as a significant medium
for the dissemination ...
Chapter Bibliography
(2013)
When the war was over in 1945, Germany was a country with no government, little functioning infrastructure, millions of refugees and homeless people, and huge foreign armies living largely off the land. Large parts of the ...
Chapter Introduction
(2015)
This book offers a provocative account of interdisciplinary research across the neurosciences, social sciences and humanities. Setting itself against standard accounts of interdisciplinary 'integration,' and rooting itself ...
Chapter Epilogue
(2015)
This book offers a provocative account of interdisciplinary research across the neurosciences, social sciences and humanities. Setting itself against standard accounts of interdisciplinary 'integration,' and rooting itself ...
Chapter 15 Sociotechnical Innovation in Mental Health: Articulating Complexity
(2013)
Health is a matter of fundamental importance in European societies, both as a human right in itself, and as a factor in a productive workforce and therefore a healthy economy. New health technologies promise improved quality ...
Chapter Acknowledgements
(2015)
This book is the first account of self-harming behaviour in its proper historical and political context. The rise of self-cutting and overdosing in the 20th century is linked to the sweeping changes in mental and physical ...
Chapter 4 Nursing a plague: nurses’ perspectives on their work during the United Kingdom HIV/ AIDS crisis, 1981– 96
(2022)
As part of the United Kingdom’s response to the escalating HIV/AIDS crisis during the 1980s, special wards and community-based services were established to care for people living with HIV/AIDS (PWHA). Much of the pioneering ...
Chapter 13 Making Sense of Cheshire West
(2020)
In 2014 the UK Supreme Court was asked to rule on whether three people with intellectual disabilities were deprived of their liberty. Each of these people were living in 'post-carceral' care settings in the community: a ...
Researching animal research
(2024)
Animal research is part of a complex web of relations made up of humans and animals, practices inside and outside the laboratory, formal laws and professional norms, and social imaginaries of the past and future of medicine. ...
Chapter 14 The science of population and birth control in post-war Japan
(2016)
This essay examines the entanglement between population science and population governance immediately after World War II. It analyzes debates on
population and birth control research that contributed to the state-endorsed
birth ...
Figure
(2022)
This open access book shows how figures, figuring, and configuration are used to understand complex, contemporary problems. Figures are images, numbers, diagrams, data and datasets, turns-of-phrase, and representations. ...
Chapter 8 Medical Discourse and Ideology in the Edinburgh Review: A Chaldean Exemplar
(2015)
Scotland was at the forefront in spreading the ideas of the Enlightenment. By the beginning of the nineteenth century its periodical press enjoyed an unparalleled reputation with magazines like Blackwood's Magazine and the ...
Chapter 15 Invisible Suffering
(2018)
This chapter presents a philosophical framework for the understanding of the experience of breathlessness. I suggest that the experience of breathlessness is total and overwhelming to the sufferer, but also largely invisible ...
Literature and Medicine in the Nineteenth- Century Periodical Press
(2017)
In the early nineteenth century, Edinburgh was the leading centre of medical education and research in Britain. It also laid claim to
a thriving periodical culture, which served as a significant medium
for the dissemination ...
Chapter 4 'Now, back to our Virchow': German Medical and Political Traditions in Post-war Berlin
(2013)
When the war was over in 1945, Germany was a country with no government, little functioning infrastructure, millions of refugees and homeless people, and huge foreign armies living largely off the land. Large parts of the ...
Chapter Introduction
(2015)
This book offers a provocative account of interdisciplinary research across the neurosciences, social sciences and humanities. Setting itself against standard accounts of interdisciplinary 'integration,' and rooting itself ...
Chapter Epilogue
(2015)
This book offers a provocative account of interdisciplinary research across the neurosciences, social sciences and humanities. Setting itself against standard accounts of interdisciplinary 'integration,' and rooting itself ...
Chapter Introduction: A Life Science in Its African Para-State
(2015)
In Para-States and Medical Science, P. Wenzel Geissler and the contributors examine how medicine and public health in Africa have been transformed as a result of economic and political liberalization and globalization, ...
Chapter 3 Global governance
(2013)
The sequencing of the entire human genome has opened up unprecedented possibilities for healthcare, but also ethical and social dilemmas about how these can be achieved, particularly in developing countries. UNESCO's ...
Chapter 2 A Prostitution of the Profession?
(2016)
It is the first monograph-length study of the force-feeding of hunger strikers in English, Irish and Northern Irish prisons. It examines ethical debates that arose throughout the twentieth century when governments authorised ...