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The Doctor’s Garden
(2021)
As Britain grew into an ever-expanding empire during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, new and exotic botanical specimens began to arrive within the nation’s public and private spaces. Gardens became sites ...
Looking after Miss Alexander
(2023)
In July 1939, at the Royal Courts of Justice in London, fifty-nine-year-old Beatrice Alexander was found incapable of managing her own property and affairs. Although Alexander and those living with her insisted that she ...
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 3 Responding to HIV/ AIDS in European prisons, 1980s– 2000s
(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 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 7 The European HIV/ AIDS Archive: building a queer counter- memory
(2022)
Mobilising a queer theoretical framework, by which we mean embracing unhappiness, ephemerality, and instability, this chapter reflects on processes of archiving oral histories as part of the European HIV/AIDS Archive (EHAA). ...
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 ...
E-Cigarettes and the Comparative Politics of Harm Reduction
(2023)
This open access book offers the first in-depth study of the history and current debates surrounding electronic cigarettes comparing the UK, US and Australia. Since their introduction, e-cigarettes have been the subject ...
Chapter 8 Ethics of Selective Restriction of Liberty in a Pandemic
(2023)
Liberty-restricting measures are basic measures in combatting any pandemic. But whose liberty should be restricted? One standard response in public health ethics is to appeal to the “least restrictive alternative” necessary ...
Chapter 13 Ethical Hotspots in Infectious Disease Surveillance for Global Health Security Social justice and Pandemic Preparedness
(2023)
At the time of writing, the world remains in the grip of the COVID-19 pandemic. Approximately 14.9 million people have died and every country in the world has been affected affectedaffectedaffectedaffected directly or ...
Chapter Introduction
(2023)
The COVID-19 pandemic has been a defining defining event of the 21st century. Global estimates of excess mortality indicate that it has taken fifteen fifteen million lives over 2020-21 (Knutson et al. 2022). It has closed ...
Chapter 13 Sand fly sex/aggregation pheromones
(2022)
Sand flies are an ancient group of Diptera estimated to contain 1000 species. Approximately 70 of
these transmit pathogens (viruses, bacteria and protists), which cause human and animal diseases.
The most important are ...
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 ...
Dyslexia
(2022)
In 1896 the British physician William Pringle Morgan published an account of “Percy,” a “bright and intelligent boy, quick at games, and in no way inferior to others of his age.” Yet, in spite of his intelligence, Percy ...
Chapter 4 The Global War Against the Rat
(2022)
It is almost impossible to find a plague-related
news item today that is not
accompanied by an image of a rat. The best-known
carriers of zoonotic
diseases, rats are so closely identified with plague that research ...
Chapter 12 Modelling Threshold-Dependent Gene Drives: a Case Study Using Engineered Underdominance
(2022)
In this chapter, we outline a range of
modelling approaches that have been used
to demonstrate the key characteristics of
this approach, including threshold introduction
frequencies, reversibility, spatial limitation
and ...
Chapter 10 Pluralism and Allocation of Limited Resources
(2023)
In the response to this pandemic, two vital, but controversial ethical questions are we should allocate ventilators to patients with severe respiratory failure, and how we should distribute vaccines to people at risk of ...
Chapter Slow Violence and Slow Going
(2023)
This This chapter reads Beckett’s fascination with what Steven Connor has called ‘slow going’ alongside Rob Nixon’s description of the ‘slow violence’ of climate breakdown. Following Nixon’s suggestion that ‘slow violence’ ...
Chapter Introduction
(2023)
In this Introduction, we begin by examining the nature of ‘the
public’ and ‘public health’ and how these changed over time. We
then set out the key cross-cutting themes that this book will address
before going on to ...
Medicine in an Age of Revolution
(2023)
This work is the first major attempt since the 1970s to challenge the idea that the essential engine of medical (and scientific) change in seventeenth-century Britain emanated from puritanism. It seeks to reaffirm the ...