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Chapter Introduction
(2019)
In bringing together this collection on law’s relationship with time, our
concern has been to register an increasing commitment among scholars across
disciplines to shift such patterns of engagement. Our own research ...
Work and Occupation in French and English Mental Hospitals, c.1918-1939
(2023)
This open access book demonstrates that, while occupation has been used to treat the mentally disordered since the early nineteenth century, approaches to its use have varied across different countries and in different ...
Animals and the Shaping of Modern Medicine
(2017)
This book breaks new ground by situating animals and their diseases at the very heart of modern medicine. In demonstrating their historical significance as subjects and shapers of medicine, it offers important insights ...
Responsible Pleasure
(2024)
This book is a sociocultural history of young people’s sexuality in Britain from the 1960s to the 1990s, using the Brook Advisory Centre (Brook) as a case study. The book examines how and why cultural and social norms about ...
Chapter 11 Moral Neuroenhancement
(2018)
In recent years, philosophers, neuroethicists, and others have become preoccupied with “moral enhancement.” Very roughly, this refers to the deliberate moral improvement of an
individual’s character, motives, or behavior. ...
Chapter 4 Applications of Monte Carlo Simulation in Modelling of Biochemical Processes
(2012)
The biochemical models describing complex and dynamic metabolic systems are typically multi-parametric and non-linear, thus the identification of their parameters requires nonlinear
regression analysis of the experimental ...
Chapter 2 Grey Time: Anachromism and Waiting for Beckett
(2023)
Alongside marking Beckett’s obvious fascination with what we would now
call greyscale images, this chapter will argue that Beckett’s modernist, often
minimalist works also materialise an analogous temporal aesthetic: a ...
Chapter 1 Ringworm
(2013)
In this book, we discuss the changing medical and public profile of fungal infections in the period 1850–2000. We consider four sets of diseases: ringworm and athlete’s foot (dermatophytosis); thrush or candidiasis (infection ...
Chapter 4 Deliberating bioethics
(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 20 Data management
(2015)
Before new interventions can be used in disease control programmes, it is essential that they are carefully evaluated in “field trials”, which may be complex and expensive undertakings. Descriptions of the detailed procedures ...
Chapter 16 Field organization and ensuring data of high quality
(2015)
Before new interventions can be used in disease control programmes, it is essential that they are carefully evaluated in “field trials”, which may be complex and expensive undertakings. Descriptions of the detailed procedures ...
Chapter 6 Recovering mothers’ experiences of HIV/ AIDS health activism in Edinburgh, 1983– 2000
(2022)
Edinburgh was disproportionately affected by HIV/AIDS in the early 1980–1990s, and women and children were affected in higher numbers there than elsewhere in the UK. Edinburgh’s AIDS crisis also followed a different pattern, ...
Chapter 15 The Politics of Tackling Inequalities
(2015)
This chapter is concerned with the growing influence of non-material explanations for inequalities and a corresponding emphasis on psychological interventions, which aim to modify cognitive function or emotional ...
Chapter Five Chlamydia
(2019)
Since the late 1990s chlamydia has been the most commonly reported sexually
transmitted infection (STI) in Europe and the United States. The
infection is caused by the bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis (C. trachomatis),
and ...
Religion in Global Health and Development
(2022)
The COVID-19 pandemic has made evident that the field of global health – its practices, norms, and failures – has the power to shape the lives of billions. Global health perspectives on the role of religion, however, are ...
A History of Self-Harm in Britain
(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 Twelve Revealing the Hidden Affliction
(2019)
By the turn of the twentieth century the British nation’s declining birthrate
was increasingly the subject of anxious public and scientific debate, as
the Registrar General’s annual reports continued to confirm a ...
Chapter 8 Participant-created documents as an elicitation tool
(2018)
Elicitation interviews are where participants are either shown items or asked to bring items to the interview in order to shape the direction of the conversation. This approach is often referred to as being part of ‘visual ...
Chapter 2 Which Way Does It Go between You Two? Modes of Interdisciplinary Intervention
(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 2 Demonic Daydreams
(2018)
“St Dunstan stood in his ivied tower, Alembic, crucible, all were there; When in came Nick to play him a trick, In guise of a damsel passing fair. Every one knows How the story goes: He took up the tongs and caught hold ...
Chapter 3 The Instrument of Death
(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 ...
Chapter 10 The Territory of Medical Research: Experimentation in Africa's Smallest 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 9 Which Patient Takes Centre Stage?
(2020)
The growth of personalised medicine and patient partnerships in biomedical
research are reshaping both the emotional and material intersections
between human patients and animal research. Through tracing the creative ...
Chapter 8 Pandemics and national pride: collecting and curating the history of HIV/ AIDS
(2022)
In recent years there has been a resurgence of museum exhibitions on the history of HIV/AIDS. While many assumed that there was enough awareness of the historical significance of this new disease to ensure the careful ...
The Poetics and Politics of Alzheimer’s Disease Life-Writing
(2017)
This is the first book-length exploration of the thoughts and experiences expressed by dementia patients in published narratives over the last thirty years. It contrasts third-person caregiver and first-person patient ...
Chapter Broadcasting Communist Morality: Sex Education in Soviet Latvia
(2023)
Mass media was an important technology of sexual enlightenment in the Brezhnev-era USSR. In the Latvian SSR, sex education materials positioned medical experts working within the state healthcare system as the chief authority ...
Chapter 4 The Kinesin-3 Family
(2020)
The Kinesin-3s are a family of cargo transporters. They typically display highly processive plus-end-directed motion, either as dimers or in teams, formed via interaction with cargo
Chapter 4 Imagery-Based Cognitive-Behavioral Assessment
(2015)
This volume brings together leading experts to explore the state of the art of cognitive clinical assessment and identify cutting-edge approaches of interest to clinicians and researchers. The book highlights fundamental ...
The Perils of Peace
(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 Communicating safely & effectively using plant names
(2014)
This paper describes a new initiative to provide information services in support of professionals, including legislators, that work in health, pharmacovigilance, the herbal and pharmaceutical industries or that undertake ...
Chapter Introduction
(2014)
Recent decades have witnessed profound shifts in the politics of medicine and the biological sciences. Members of several professions, including philosophers, lawyers and social scientists, now discuss and help regulate ...
Chapter 18 Nostalgia, Ageing, and Older Age
(2025)
The Routledge Handbook of Nostalgia serves as a guide to the complex and often contradictory concept of nostalgia, as well as the field of “nostalgia studies” more broadly. Nostalgia is an area of intense interest across ...
Disability in industrial Britain:
(2019)
Coalmining was a notoriously dangerous industry and many of its workers experienced injury and disease. However, the experiences of the many disabled people within Britain’s most dangerous industry have gone largely ...
Chapter 16 Breathing and Breathlessness in Clinic and Culture: Using Critical Medical Humanities to Bridge an Epistemic Gap
(2016)
In this landmark Companion, expert contributors from around the world map out the field of the critical medical humanities. This is the first volume to introduce comprehensively the ways in which interdisciplinary thinking ...
Chapter 21 Medical privacy and big data
(2019)
This This chapter aims to explore the challenge that big data brings to medical privacy. Section I offers a brief overview of the role of privacy in medical settings. I define define privacy as having one’s personal ...
Chapter 10 'You don't Need Proof When You've Got Instinct!': Gut Feelings and Some Limits to Parental Authority
(2015)
This book reflects on the many contributions made in and to European bioethics to date, in various locations, and from various disciplinary perspectives. In so doing, the book advances understanding of the academic and ...
Chapter Jan Baptist Van Helmont and the Medical-Alchemical Perspectives of Poison
(2017)
This chapter discusses Jan Baptist Van Helmont’s (1579-1644) views on poison in light of his medical alchemy. First, it argues that his approach was fundamentally influenced by the theories of ‘universal poison’ and ‘potent ...
Science at the end of empire
(2018)
This book produces a major rethinking of the history of development after 1940 through an exploration of Britain’s ambitions for industrialisation in its Caribbean colonies. Industrial development is a neglected topic in ...
Chapter 1 Psychological Illness and General Practice
(2015)
Statistically, women appear to suffer more frequently from depressive and anxiety disorders, featuring more regularly in primary care figures for consultations, diagnoses and prescriptions for psychotropic medication. This ...
Balancing the self
(2020)
Concepts of ‘balance’ have been central to modern politics, medicine and society. Yet, while many health, environmental and social challenges are discussed globally in terms of imbalances in biological, social and ecological ...
Chapter 3 Sickness, disease and medical practitioners in 1640s Ireland
(2019)
This chapter explores the medical environment of 1640s Ireland, particularly during the 1641 Rebellion. It uses the 1641 Depositions to explore how people understood reported sickness and disease. It also traces the ...
Chapter 5 Technological Accretion in Diagnostics
(2016)
This book brings together a collection of empirical case studies featuring a wide spectrum of medical innovation. While there is no unique pathway to successful medical innovation, recurring and distinctive features can ...
Chapter 2 Pathogenesis
(2015)
This work contains updated and clinically relevant information about tuberculosis. It is aimed at providing a succinct overview of history and disease epidemiology, clinical presentation and the most recent scientific ...
Chapter 4 Delivering Post-Mortem Harm: Cutting the Corpse
(2016)
Those convicted of homicide were hanged on the public gallows before being dissected under the Murder Act in Georgian England. Yet, from 1752, whether criminals actually died on the hanging tree or in the dissection room ...
Chapter 4 Delivering Post-Mortem Harm: Cutting the Corpse
(2016)
Those convicted of homicide were hanged on the public gallows before being dissected under the Murder Act in Georgian England. Yet, from 1752, whether criminals actually died on the hanging tree or in the dissection room ...
Chapter 7 Public Health Work in the Soviet Occupation Zone
(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 12 Taking drugs to help others
(2016)
Some risky medical treatments confer no benefit on the patient who undergoes the intervention though they do benefit third parties. It is commonly thought to be unethical for doctors to provide such treatments even if the ...
Chapter 12 Partiality for Humanity and Enhancement
(2016)
We consider a strategy for justifying bio-conservative opposition to enhancement according to which we should resist radical departures from human nature, not because human nature possesses any intrinsic value, but because ...
Chapter 4 What Future Remains? Remembering an African Place of Science
(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 10 Enhancing Conservatism
(2016)
Debate between bioliberals (who adopt a permissive view about human enhancement) and bioconservatives (who oppose it) often fails to be constructive, since bioliberals are often dismissive of the conservative values to ...
Chapter 12 Taking drugs to help others
(2016)
Some risky medical treatments confer no benefit on the patient who undergoes the intervention though they do benefit third parties. It is commonly thought to be unethical for doctors to provide such treatments even if the ...
Chapter 7 Public Health Work in the Soviet Occupation Zone
(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 The cost-effectiveness of what in health and care?
(2021)
Assessing the value for money offered by new health technologies is playing an
increasingly important role in aiding decision-making in health and care. Even
in a pre-COVID-19 world, international healthcare systems ...
Chapter 6 Ageing and Gender Preferences in Rural Indonesia
(2015)
This chapter draws on the longitudinal ethnographic and demographic
field study of three communities representing major Indonesian ethnicities
(Javanese, Sundanese, and Minangkabau), located in three of the five
provinces ...
Chapter Appendix
(2015)
Statistically, women appear to suffer more frequently from depressive and anxiety disorders, featuring more regularly in primary care figures for consultations, diagnoses and prescriptions for psychotropic medication. This ...
Chapter 17 The Racial Contours of Queer Reproduction
(2022)
In this chapter, we bring queer theory into dialogue with critical race studies. We ask “How does the literature in queer kinship engage with the issues of race and intersecting inequalities?’’ This chapter builds upon the ...
Chapter 17 The Racial Contours of Queer Reproduction
(2022)
In this chapter, we bring queer theory into dialogue with critical race studies. We ask “How does the literature in queer kinship engage with the issues of race and intersecting inequalities?’’ This chapter builds upon the ...
Chapter References
(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 ...
Pyrrhic Progress
(2020)
Pyrrhic Progress analyses over half a century of antibiotic use, regulation, and resistance in US and British food production. Mass-introduced after 1945, antibiotics helped revolutionize post-war agriculture. Food producers ...
Chapter Mapping Jewish Identities
(2014)
Through a comparion of etnographic research in the UK and Brazil, this chapter has examined now changing scientific and medical understandings regarding the origin, genealogical history and patrimony of the so-called ...
Chapter 58 The Đồng Nhân Pagoda and the Publication of Mister Lazy’s Medical Encyclopedia
(2017)
In comparison with other regions in the Sinitic world, a rather small number of medical texts has been preserved in Vietnam. Reasons given are unfavorable local conditions, such as the warm and humid climate, and destruction ...
Chapter EIGHT Writing Revelation
(2019)
This essay addresses intersections of gender and genre by exploring the complex ways in which the Book of Margery Kempe draws on other devotional texts, particularly those of Hilton and Rolle, on the lives of holy women, ...
Chapter 4 Pharmacological Solutions
(2015)
Statistically, women appear to suffer more frequently from depressive and anxiety disorders, featuring more regularly in primary care figures for consultations, diagnoses and prescriptions for psychotropic medication. This ...
Chapter 10 Lifting the Veil
(2018)
Always rewriting and always rewritten, romance also opens onto new ways
of seeing. Romance retains its power in part because, in its engagement
with thinking, feeling, and being in the world, it continues to allow ...
Chapter Useful Plants
(2017)
Plants
Chapter 10 Designing for Mental Health
(2019)
In 1953 the American Psychiatric Association established an Architectural Study Project in collaboration with the American Institute of Architects. The project brought together a wide range of experts from psychiatry and ...
Chapter 4 The Folk Psychological Roots of Free Will
(2017)
Debates surrounding free will are notorious for their intractability. This is so in spite of the fact that, even at a fairly fine grain of analysis, competing views on the nature of free will are well understood. Why can’t ...
Chapter 7 Trial governance
(2015)
Before new interventions can be used in disease control programmes, it is essential that they are carefully evaluated in “field trials”, which may be complex and expensive undertakings. Descriptions of the detailed procedures ...
Chapter 7 Trial governance
(2015)
Before new interventions can be used in disease control programmes, it is essential that they are carefully evaluated in “field trials”, which may be complex and expensive undertakings. Descriptions of the detailed procedures ...
Disparate Remedies
(2023)
At present India is a leading producer, distributor, and consumer of generic medicines globally. Disparate Remedies traces the genealogy of this development and examines the public cultures of medicine in the country between ...
Chapter 1 Rethinking our Assumptions about Moral Status
(2021)
Recent technological developments and potential technological developments of the near future require us to try to think clearly about what it is to have moral status and about when and why we should attribute moral status ...
Chapter 8 Phrenological Controversy and the Medical Imagination: 'A Modern Pythagorean' in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
(2014)
Scottish Medicine and Literary Culture, 1726–1832 examines the ramifications of Scottish medicine for literary culture within Scotland, throughout Britain, and across the transatlantic world. The contributors take an ...
Chapter 1 Rethinking our Assumptions about Moral Status
(2021)
Recent technological developments and potential technological developments of the near future require us to try to think clearly about what it is to have moral status and about when and why we should attribute moral status ...
Chapter 3 Environmental Entanglements
(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 7 Estimating chemical and microstructural heterogeneity by correlating relaxation and diffusion
(2020)
Whereas diffusion NMR can probe the structural configurations configurations of microscopic environments in biological tissue, relaxation can provide complementary information on their chemical composition. This chapter ...
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 1 Ethics 'by and for professions': the origins and endurance of club regulation
(2014)
Recent decades have witnessed profound shifts in the politics of medicine and the biological sciences. Members of several professions, including philosophers, lawyers and social scientists, now discuss and help regulate ...
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 5 Mapping Punishment: Provincial Places to Dissect
(2016)
Those convicted of homicide were hanged on the public gallows before being dissected under the Murder Act in Georgian England. Yet, from 1752, whether criminals actually died on the hanging tree or in the dissection room ...
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. ...