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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 9 The essence of rage
(2017)
In the present paper I aim to explore the related area of how, for Galen, emotional states - the soul's affections, or pathē - are connected with bodily states. I shall be doing this largely on the basis of texts which are ...
Chapter 15 La medicina predittiva e il dibattito etico sui test genetici
(2019)
The "genetic revolution" that characterized the beginning of the third millennium
and the most recent “genomic revolution” have made me wait more and more
of human existence have become the object of scientific and ...
Chapter 19 ‘A Tragedy as Old as History’
(2017)
This chapter will explore how the infertile patient was characterized, perceived, and treated by the medical profession in 1950s England and Scotland. Such was the concern that this subject engendered in postwar Britain ...
Chapter 2 Aging
(2017)
According to medical tradition, aging coincides with illnesses such as cancer, Alzheimer’s disease and cardiovascular disease, yet is itself a ‘normal’, ‘natural’ and non-pathological process. From this perspective, ...
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 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 ...
Chapter 3 Allergic to Innovation?
(2018)
This chapter investigates how allergists and their patients have understood the relationship between dietary change and allergy during the twentieth century. Industrial food production and the emergence of a global food ...
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 7 From John Yudkin to Jamie Oliver
(2018)
Sugar and the link between its consumption and chronic disease is today’s most debated dietary concern. Yet, as this chapter demonstrates, this debate is not a new one. Rather, the modern link between sugar and disease can ...
Chapter Gesture and Movement
(2017)
Three players bring their avatars to the same in-game location to start a quest together. As they arrive, the gnome bounces on the spot and waves. The elf throws back her head in laughter before dancing with a provocative ...
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 Functional Annotation of Rare Genetic Variants
(2015)
Genome-wide association studies have successfully identified a growing number of
common variants that robustly associate with a wide range of complex diseases and
phenotypes. In the majority of cases though, the variants ...
Chapter Article 12 CRPD
(2018)
CRPD; persons with disabilities; law
Chapter 7 Socializing Responsibility
(2018)
There is a near universal consensus that the bearers of moral responsibility are the individuals we identify with proper names. I suggest that if we take the exercise of agency as a guide to the identification of agents, ...
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 5 Is Preventive Detention Morally Worse than Quarantine?
(2019)
Preventive detention shares many features with the quarantine measures sometimes employed in the context of infectious disease control. Both interventions involve imposing constraints on freedom of movement and association. ...
Chapter 11 Care in the Cage
(2016)
This chapter adopts a historical perspective to explore how material infrastructures have structured human–animal relationships within the biomedical “animal house,” c.1945 to the present. It argues material infrastructures ...
Chapter 5 Addiction
(2019)
In popular, philosophical and many scientific accounts of addiction, strong desires and other affective states carry a great deal of the explanatory burden. Much less of a role is given to cognitive states than to affective. ...
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 ...
Drugs Politics
(2019)
Iran has one of the world’s highest rates of drug addiction, estimated to be between two and seven per cent of the entire population. This makes the questions this book asks all the more salient: what is the place of illegal ...
Migraine
(2019)
For centuries, people have talked of a powerful bodily disorder called migraine, which currently affects about a billion people around the world. Yet until now, the rich history of this condition has barely been told. In ...
Ethics, conflict and medical treatment for children
(2018)
What should happen when doctors and parents disagree about what would be best for a child? When should courts become involved? Should life support be stopped against parents' wishes? The case of Charlie Gard, reached global ...
Chapter Enrichment of the Medical Vocabulary in the Greek-Speaking Medieval Communities of Southern Italy
(2018)
medical vocabulary; Greek speaking; medieval communities; Southern Italy; plant names
Chapter 9 “Nonsense Rides Piggyback on Sensible Things”
(2018)
“Nonsense rides piggyback on sensible things”, declares professional sceptic and questioned-document analyst Joe Nickell concerning graphology. This chapter examines graphology’s enduring allure and reach, despite its ...
Chapter 9 When Inner Speech Misleads
(2018)
This chapter examines whether and when the experience of inner speech can be inaccurate and thereby mislead the subject. It presents a view about the representational content of speech experience generally and then applies ...
Chapter Substitutes in John Archiatros's Therapeutics
(2018)
Ioannes Achiatros' Therapeutics are a Byzantine medical manual that has been transmitted in several versions. Of particular is here a version dating to around the late 13th century, which is written in vernacular Greek. ...
HIV/AIDS and the Prison Service of England & Wales, 1980s-1990s
(2017)
This Witness Seminar, held at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in May 2017, brings together some of those involved in influencing and implementing prison policy decisions surrounding HIV and AIDS in the ...
‘In humanity’s machine’
(2017)
The pernicious and damaging effects of incarcerating juveniles has long been a topic of concern and controversy for reform groups, policy makers, childcare practitioners and academics; such concerns are doubly compounded ...
Medicine and Memory in Tibet
(2018)
Only fifty years ago, Tibetan medicine, now seen in China as a vibrant aspect of Tibetan culture, was considered a feudal vestige to be eliminated through government-led social transformation. Medicine and Memory in Tibet ...
Chapter 9 Moral Responsibility and the Justification of Policies to Preserve Antimicrobial Effectiveness
(2020)
Restrictive policies that limit antimicrobial consumption, including therapeutically
justified use, might be necessary to tackle the problem of antimicrobial
resistance. We argue that such policies would be ethically ...
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 ...
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 ...
Chapter News from the Invisible World
(2017)
This chapter explores the transmission of tales of the supernatural during the very long eighteenth century (between c.1660 and c.1832). A genre of publications on this subject which have not been studied are those anthologies ...
Bearing Witness
(2021)
This open access book is the biography of one of Britain’s foremost animal welfare campaigners and of the world of activism, science, and politics she inhabited. In 1964, Ruth Harrison’s bestseller Animal Machines triggered ...
Chapter 7 The Long Carry
(2018)
For First World War stretcher bearers, wartime landscapes had a direct impact on the work they undertook. Trenches, shell holes, mud and sand all presented challenges to their ability to carry wounded men swiftly and safely ...
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 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 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 ...
Games Without Frontiers?
(2021)
This open access book focuses on how and why digital games and gambling are increasingly intertwined and asks “does this matter?” Looking at how “loot boxes” became the poster child for the convergence of gambling and ...
Polio Across the Iron Curtain
(2018)
By the end of the 1950s Hungary became an unlikely leader in what we now
call global health. Only three years after Soviet tanks crushed the revolution
of 1956, Hungary became one of the first countries to introduce the ...
Chapter Useful Plants
(2017)
Plants
Chapter 9 ‘Suspect’ screening
(2021)
Like their peers across western Europe, Australia and the Americas, large segments of the British public and a significant proportion of Britain’s medical establishment have enthusiastically promoted medical screening (and ...
Embodiment and everyday cyborgs
(2021)
"Using a range of social science methods and drawing on the sociology of the body, biomedicine and technology, Haddow invites readers of ‘Embodiment and everyday cyborgs’ to consider whether they might prefer organs from ...
Chapter Genomes
(2016)
In the last decade, the rise of affordable affordable high-throughput sequencing technologies has led to rapid advances across the biological sciences. At the time of writing, annotated reference genomes are available ...
Chapter 10 One Medicine?
(2016)
This chapter discusses the recent emergence of advocacy for 'One Health' (OH): the idea that greater interdisciplinarity across the domains of human and animal health research, clinical practice and policy is essential for ...
Chapter 5 ‘Rapt Up with Joy’:
(2016)
This chapter takes advantage of recent insights from the history of
emotions to offer a fresh perspective on children’s emotional responses to
death. Drawing on a range of printed and archival sources, it argues ...
Anti-Vivisection and the Profession of Medicine in Britain
(2017)
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book explores the social history of the anti-vivisection movement in Britain from its nineteenth-century beginnings until the 1960s. It discusses the ethical principles ...
The Cost of Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
(2017)
This open access book is the first comparative study of public, voluntary and private asylums in nineteenth-century Ireland. Examining nine institutions, it explores whether concepts of social class and status and the ...
Capital Punishment and the Criminal Corpse in Scotland, 1740–1834
(2017)
This book provides the most in-depth study of capital punishment in Scotland between the mid-eighteenth and early nineteenth century to date. Based upon an extensive gathering and analysis of previously untapped resources, ...
The Restless Compendium
(2016)
This interdisciplinary book contains 22 essays and interventions on rest and restlessness, silence and noise, relaxation and work. It draws together approaches from artists, literary scholars, psychologists, activists, ...
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 ...
Executing Magic in the Modern Era
(2017)
This book explores the magical and medical history of executions from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century by looking at the afterlife potency of criminal corpses, the healing activities of the executioner, and ...
Remembering and Disremembering the Dead
(2017)
This book is a multidisciplinary work that investigates the notion of posthumous harm over time. The question what is and when is death, affects how we understand the possibility of posthumous harm and redemption. Whilst ...
Misery to Mirth
(2018)
The history of early modern medicine often makes for depressing reading. It implies that people fell ill, took ineffective remedies, and died. This book seeks to rebalance and brighten our overall picture of early modern ...
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 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 ...
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 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 2 ‘We Are Recreating Bedlam’
(2018)
This essay explores the historical relationship between mental health and the prison system in England and Ireland, from the introduction of the separate system of discipline in the 1840s. In doing so, we focus on the ...
Chapter 10 Moral Conflict in the Minimally Conscious State
(2016)
In the next section, I sketch a view in which the possession of phenomenal consciousness (henceforth: “consciousness”) is necessary for possession of (positive or negative degrees of) subjective well-being. It would seem ...
Chapter 10 Animal, Mechanical, and Me
(2019)
Organ donation and transplantation is a largely successful treatment used to replace failing organs. However, donation rates have never met the demand for transplantable organs. Biomedical researchers are exploring alternative ...
Chapter 48 In Vivo Bioluminescence Imaging to Assess Compound Efficacy Against Trypanosoma brucei
(2020)
Traditional animal models for human African trypanosomiasis rely on detecting Trypanosoma brucei brucei
parasitemia in the blood. Testing the efficacy of new compounds in these models is cumbersome because it
may take ...
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 5 Respiratory Syncytial Virus
(2016)
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection has an estimated global incidence of 33 million cases in children younger than 5 years, with 10% requiring hospital admission and up to 199,000 dying of the disease. There is ...
Chapter 6 Disability and Human Rights
(2019)
This fully revised and expanded second edition of the Routledge Handbook of Disability Studies takes a multidisciplinary approach to disability and provides an authoritative and up-to-date overview of the main issues in ...
Chapter 6 Contextualizing 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 Agentive Phenomenology
(2020)
This chapter reflects on questions about the nature and sources of agentive phenomenology—that is, the set of those experience-types associated with exercises of agency, and paradigmatically with intentional actions. The ...
Chapter Consciousness and Morality
(2020)
This chapter considers three connections between consciousness and issues in ethics: first, the relevance of consciousness for questions surrounding an entity’s moral status; second, the relevance of consciousness for ...
Chapter 13 The Role of Neuroscience in Precise, Precautionary, and Probabilistic Accounts of Sentience
(2020)
Given that there is currently no consensus as to exactly which animals are
sentient, how should we make moral decisions when we are uncertain as to
which of the animals influenced by that decision are sentient? And how ...
Autonomy, Rationality, and Contemporary Bioethics
(2020)
Personal autonomy is often lauded as a key value in contemporary Western bioethics, and the claim that there is an important relationship between autonomy and rationality is often treated as an uncontroversial claim in ...
Exploring Greek Manuscripts in the Library at Wellcome Collection in London
(2020)
This book offers new insights into a largely understudied group of Greek texts preserved in selected manuscripts from the Library at Wellcome Collection, London. The content of these manuscripts ranges from medicine, ...
Chapter 3 Mortar and Pestle or Cooking Vessel? When Archaeology Makes Progress Through Failed Analogies
(2021)
Most optimistic accounts of analogies in archaeology focus on cases
where analogies lead to accurate or well-supported interpretations of the past. This
chapter offers a complementary argument: analogies can also provide ...
Chapter In Search of Sympathy
(2021)
In this essay, I place in historical context the three themes identified as important for the image of nursing in the Nursing Mirror competition, using nursing textbooks, diaries, memoirs, institutional and committee records ...
Chapter “The Root of All Evil is Inactivity”
(2021)
This chapter focuses on the varied responses of French psychiatrists to new
theories of patient occupation emerging after World War I (1914–18).
Chapter 11 Diagrams in Greek Medical Manuscripts
(2022)
In this chapter I provide a critical examination of different forms of medical diagrams in Greek
manuscripts, which are related to works by both ancient Greek and Byzantine medical authors. Due
to the large number of ...
Chapter 8 AI in Medicine
(2021)
AI promises major benefits for healthcare. But along with the benefits come risks. Not so much the risk of powerful super-intelligent machines taking over, but the risk of structural injustices, biases, and inequalities ...
Chapter 4 Obesity Is a Disease
(2022)
Obesity is a subcortical brain disease characterised by the pathognomonic symptoms of excessive hunger and/or reduced satiation after a meal. Distinct subtypes of obesity are recognised, although the rising incidence of ...
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 ...
Mixing Medicines
(2022)
Early modern Russians preferred one method of treating the sick above all others: prescribing drugs. The Moscow court sourced pharmaceuticals from Asia, Africa, Western Europe, and the Americas, in addition to its own ...