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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 ...
Chapter 11 Loneliness as Crisis in Britain after 1950
(2023)
This chapter takes as its subject the framing of loneliness in post–war Britain as a distinctly modern crisis with a particular temporal resonance and urgency. It reflects on how time and temporality were central to newspaper ...
Chapter 10 Cancerous Contraceptives and the Incubation of Monsters
(2021)
Biomedical pharmaceuticals, and specifically hormonal contraceptives, are often framed as tools to help women gain control over their lives through planning future offspring and being granted the ability to pursue life ...
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 ...
Philosophy, Bullshit, and Peer Review
(2023)
Peer review is supposed to ensure that published work, in philosophy and in other disciplines, meets high standards of rigor and interest. But many people fear that it no longer is fit to play this role. This Element ...
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 13 A Change of Heart: Animality, Power, and Black Posthuman Enhancement in Malorie Blackman’s Pig-Heart Boy
(2024)
As cardiac xenotransplantation moves from labs into hospitals, this chapter asks what Malorie Blackman’s young adult novel Pig-Heart Boy reveals about power, race, and identity in relation to the experimental therapy. ...
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 ...
Carolingian Medical Knowledge and Practice, c.775-900
(2024)
Carolingian Medical Knowledge and Practice explores the practicality and applicability of the medical recipes recorded in early medieval manuscripts. It takes an original, dual approach to these overlooked and understudied ...
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 ...
Negotiating Bioethics
(2013)
A PDF version of this book is available for free in Open Access at www.tandfebooks.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. The sequencing of the entire ...
Film and the Chinese Medical Humanities
(2019)
Film and the Chinese Medical Humanities is the first book to reflect on the power of film in representing medical and health discourse in China in both the past and the present, as well as in shaping its future. Drawing ...
Hearing Voices, Demonic and Divine
(2018)
The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781472453983, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivative 4.0 license. Experiences of hearing ...
Disability in the Industrial Revolution
(2018)
The Industrial Revolution produced injury, illness and disablement on a large scale and nowhere was this more visible than in coalmining. Disability in the Industrial Revolution sheds new light on the human cost of ...
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 6 The user-friendly Galen
(2018)
When a text is translated into another language and leaves its previous linguistic, cultural and social context, it also leaves its old audience behind. The new audience
the text now faces has its own set of requirements, ...
Chapter 3 The professional audiences of the Hippocratic Epidemics
(2018)
To summarise our findings, the Hippocratic Epidemics case reports is an example of a text whose intended audiences, despite the ambiguities and historical
uncertainties about the texts’ composition and transmission, were ...
Chapter 9 Reading Galen in Byzantium
(2018)
In this chapter, I shall focus on the Galenic corpus, whose dissemination in the Byzantine world was widespread and influential; in particular, I have chosen to
examine the various revivals of Galen’s Therapeutics to ...
Investigating the Body in the Victorian Asylum
(2017)
This book explores how the body was investigated in the late nineteenth-century asylum in Britain. As more and more Victorian asylum doctors looked to the bodily fabric to reveal the ‘truth’ of mental disease, a whole host ...
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 ...