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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 ...