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Chapter 3 Candida
(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 9 Medicine and Improvement in the Scots Magazine; and Edinburgh Literary Miscellany (1804–17)
(2018)
In this chapter I examine how Archibald Constable’s Scots Magazine; and Edinburgh Literary Miscellany (1804–17) became a medium for the
promotion of key medical initiatives in early nineteenth-century Edinburgh,
including ...
Chapter 28 Genomics in emerging and developing economies
(2018)
Low and middle-income countries have become a site of increasing research interest and investment with the transnational expansion and spread of genomic knowledge and technologies
(Kumar 2012, Seguin et al. 2008). This ...
Chapter 13 The value of the imagined biological in policy and society
(2018)
Attending the World Economic Forum this past week, I was struck by two trends. The first was that brain research has emerged as a hot topic. Not only was brain science or brain health a new
theme at the meeting, research ...
Chapter 37 Neuroscientific Threaths to Free Will
(2017)
In this chapter, I review recent work on neuroscientifi c threats to free will. What is it for something to threaten free will? Consider, fi rst, an apparent threat. You are walking
in the dark, and a shadow looms in the ...
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 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 ...
Chapter 6 Traditional medicines, law and the (dis)ordering of temporalities
(2019)
In this chapter, I explore the regulation of alternative and traditional medicine, in
order to reflect on how particular temporalities shape, and are shaped by, the
interface between law and medicine. This chapter makes ...
Chapter 4 Compassion in primary and community healthcare
(2017)
Compassion is an attribute of a person’s affective understanding, which aims to enable, so far as possible, shared experiences of the world’s ills and some alleviation of those ills’ effects.
Such an attribute is thus of ...
Chapter 7 Covenant, compassion and marketisation in healthcare
(2018)
‘No one can serve two masters . . . You cannot serve God and Mammon.’ Jesus’ famous words, cited to different purposes by Miran Epstein and Adrian Walsh in
this volume, provide a starting point for this chapter’s constructive ...
Narrating the Many Autisms
(2024)
Autism is a profoundly contested idea. The focus of this book is not what autism is or what autistic people are, but rather, it grapples with the central question: what does it take for autistic people to participate in a ...
Franco's Internationalists
(2019)
This book tells the story of the experts who sold the idea of Franco’s ‘social state’. Despite the repression, violence, and social hardship which characterized Spanish life in the 1940s and 1950s, the Franco regime sought ...
Informal Livelihoods and Governance in South Africa
(2022)
This open access book offers a compelling account of everyday life, livelihoods, and governance in post-apartheid South Africa among the urban poor and marginalized, anchored in and through a critique of the concept of ...
Chapter 1 One Health
(2023)
The call for a One Health approach that transcends species and disciplinary boundaries assumes that human and veterinary medicine are discrete, distinctive domains whose separation must be overcome to achieve health benefits ...
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. ...
Voices in Psychosis
(2022)
Voices in Psychosis: Interdisciplinary Perspectives deepens and extends the understanding of hearing voices in psychosis in a striking way. For the first time, this collection brings multiple disciplinary, clinical and ...
Prosthetic Body Parts in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
(2022)
This open access book investigates imaginaries of artificial limbs, eyes, hair, and teeth in British and American literary and cultural sources from the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Prosthetic Body Parts in ...
Chapter 1 The non-patient’s view
(2021)
Since Roy Porter’s pioneering work on the ‘patient’s view’, historians have taken up the challenge to rewrite medicine’s past ‘from below’. However, this chapter argues that they have not been radical enough and have ...
Abrahamic Reflections on Randomness and Providence
(2022)
This open access book addresses the question of how God can providentially govern apparently ungovernable randomness. Medieval theologians confidently held that God is provident, that is, God is the ultimate cause of or ...
Understanding Well-being Data
(2021)
‘Following the data’ is a now-familiar phrase in Covid-19 policy communications. Well-being data are pivotal in decisions that affect our life chances, livelihoods and quality of life. They are increasingly valuable to ...