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Chapter 6 Dark Nights of Romance
(2021)
romance; essays
Chapter 1 Rethinking our Assumptions about Moral Status
(2021)
Recent technological developments and potential technological developments of the near future require us to try to think clearly about what it is to have moral status and about when and why we should attribute moral status ...
Chapter 11 Watchful Waiting
(2021)
This paper opens up the relationship between vulnerability and the temporalities of care. It takes ‘care’ as not just
a material practice that supports, manages and sustains vulnerable bodies, but as a temporal practice, ...
Chapter The cost-effectiveness of what in health and care?
(2021)
Assessing the value for money offered by new health technologies is playing an
increasingly important role in aiding decision-making in health and care. Even
in a pre-COVID-19 world, international healthcare systems ...
Chapter 9 The interplay between policy and funding
(2021)
Whilst there are many common features in doctoral training across the world, there is considerable variation in how training is delivered, funded and supported. Approaches vary depending on the nature of the degree, on ...
Medical histories of Belgium
(2021)
This edited volume offers the first comprehensive historical overview of the Belgian medical field in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Its chapters develop narratives that go beyond traditional representations of ...
Chapter 9 Mitochondria Structure and Position in the Local Control of Calcium Signals in Smooth Muscle Cells
(2019)
Features of Ca2+ signals including the amplitude, duration, frequency and location
are encoded by various physiological stimuli. These features of the signals
are decoded by cells to selectively activate smooth muscle ...
Managing diabetes, managing medicine
(2019)
Through a study of diabetes care in post-war Britain, this book is the first historical monograph to explore the emergence of managed medicine within the National Health Service. Much of the extant literature has cast the ...
Chapter 4 Promoting medical change in Restoration Ireland
(2019)
This chapter seeks to situate James Butler, duke of Ormond, at the centre of an important patronage network for medicine in Restoration Britain and Ireland. It explores the Irish dimension of the emergence of the Society ...
Chapter 3 Sickness, disease and medical practitioners in 1640s Ireland
(2019)
This chapter explores the medical environment of 1640s Ireland, particularly during the 1641 Rebellion. It uses the 1641 Depositions to explore how people understood reported sickness and disease. It also traces the ...
An Equal Burden
(2019)
"An Equal Burden forms the first scholarly study of the Army Medical Services in the First World War to focus on the roles and experiences of the men of the ranks of the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC). These men, through ...
Chapter Care crisis
(2024)
The Routledge Companion to Literatures and Crisis provides deep insight into a complex and multi-layered phenomenon. The third decade of the twenty-first century is being marked by a polycrisis caused by various world ...
Chapter The Epidemiological and Epistemic Emergence of “Rural Plague” in Argentina
(2024)
Rural Disease Knowledge examines the ways in which knowledge of rural spaces and environments, on the one hand, and infectious diseases, on the other, have become inter-constituted since the late nineteenth century. With ...
Chapter Introduction
(2024)
Rural Disease Knowledge examines the ways in which knowledge of rural spaces and environments, on the one hand, and infectious diseases, on the other, have become inter-constituted since the late nineteenth century. With ...
Chapter A Global Desert
(2024)
Rural Disease Knowledge examines the ways in which knowledge of rural spaces and environments, on the one hand, and infectious diseases, on the other, have become inter-constituted since the late nineteenth century. With ...
Community Health Practitioners and Child Sexual Abuse in the Family, 1970s-2010s
(2025)
This open access book is an innovative history of community health practitioners’ responses to the seemingly intractable problem of men (and on rare occasions, women) sexually abusing children within the private family ...
Chapter Sunbeds, dihydroxyacetone (DHA) fake tan, and MelanoTan injections
(2025)
By the early 1990s, a drastic increase in malignant melanoma rates—mainly in the UK, Europe, America, and Australia—sparked significant concern about skin cancer. In Britain, medical experts and the media attempted to ...
Chapter Talk shows and 'tanorexia'
(2024)
The rise in melanoma skin cancer rates from the 1950s in mostly fair-skinned populations, such as in Britain, triggered a global panic on skin cancer in the 1990s. Some countries tightened restrictions on sunbeds to lower ...
Chapter Cultivating vulnerability
(2024)
This chapter is a personal reflection on the author’s doubts, whilst leading an oral history project, about power dynamics within the interviewer–interviewee relationship, the risks of abuse of power and of paternalism, ...
Chapter A private matter? The Brook Advisory Centre and young people's everyday sexual and reproductive health in the 1960s-80s
(2024)
This chapter explores the role of the Brook Advisory Centres (BAC) in the everyday sexual and reproductive health of young people in postwar Britain. BAC was the first organisation to provide sexual health advice and methods ...