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Chapter 3 Defining Difference
(2017)
Ovariotomy provides a useful way of unpacking not just the process of
surgical innovation but also the usefulness of innovation as an analytical
category in the history of medicine. How might we pin down the meaning
of ...
Chapter 2 First Contacts, Slavery and Kinship in North-Eastern Amazonia
(2016)
The first book to address the classic anthropological theme of property through the ethnography of Amazonia, Ownership and Nurture sets new and challenging terms for anthropological debates about the region and about ...
Chapter 4 Who should decide for critically ill neonates and how?
(2016)
This chapter distinguishes between essential features of the zone of parental discretion and the longstanding concept of a grey zone in neonatal treatment decision-making. The grey zone has traditionally described a ...
Chapter Auditory Verbal Hallucinations and Inner Speech
(2017)
Inner speech is a pervasive feature of our conscious lives.1 But what is
inner speech, and what happens in unconscious processing that makes
it the conscious experience that it is? A clue to answering this can be
found ...
Malarial Subjects
(2017)
Malaria was considered one of the most widespread disease-causing entities in the nineteenth century. It was associated with a variety of frailties far beyond fevers, ranging from idiocy to impotence. And yet, it was not ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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, ...
Global Health Research in an Unequal World
(2016)
This book is a collection of fictionalised case studies of everyday ethical dilemmas and challenges, encountered in the process of conducting global health research in places where the effects of global, political 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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Chapter 11 Metabolomics in the Analysis of Inflammatory Diseases
(2012)
Most infections and traumatic injuries are cleared or repaired relatively rapidly and metabolic homoeostasis is soon restored. However, there is a broad range of inflammatory
diseases which involve chronic activation of ...
Chapter 10 Indigenous Networks and Evangelical Frontiers: Problems with Governance and Ethics in Cases of ‘Voluntary Isolation’ in Contemporary Amazonia
(2017)
The periodic emergence of indigenous peoples living in voluntary isolation in Amazonia have given rise to sensational media reports and heated academic
debate. In this chapter we describe briefly the historical and ...
Chapter 14 The science of population and birth control in post-war Japan
(2016)
This essay examines the entanglement between population science and population governance immediately after World War II. It analyzes debates on
population and birth control research that contributed to the state-endorsed
birth ...
Chapter 14 Coupled Enzyme Activity and Thermal Shift Screening of the Maybridge Rule of 3 Fragment Library Against Trypanosoma brucei Choline Kinase; A Genetically Validated Drug Target
(2013)
In this study we interrogate 630 compounds of the Maybridge Rule of 3 Fragment Library for compounds that interact with, and inhibit TbCK. The Maybridge Rule of 3 Fragment Library is a small collection of quantifiable ...
Chapter 4 Applications of Monte Carlo Simulation in Modelling of Biochemical Processes
(2012)
The biochemical models describing complex and dynamic metabolic systems are typically multi-parametric and non-linear, thus the identification of their parameters requires nonlinear
regression analysis of the experimental ...
Chapter 31 Central Immune Senescence, Reversal Potentials
(2012)
Ageing is a complex process that affects all living organisms. Senescence is not only conceivable in multicellular organisms, but also in unicellulars. Unlike certain diseases that
have specific morbidity rates, ageing ...
Chapter 5 Computational Analysis and Integration of MeDIP-seq Methylome Data
(2016)
The combinatorial number of possible methylomes in biological time and space is astronomical. Consequently, the computational analysis of methylomes needs to cater for a variety of data, throughput and resolution. Here, ...
Chapter 8 Highlights on Anopheles nili and Anopheles moucheti, Malaria Vectors in Africa
(2013)
In this chapter, we review knowledge gained so far on mosquitoes from An. moucheti and closely related species, as well as the An. nili complex. We highlight specific bionomical, ecological and genetic attributes that ...
Dissecting the Criminal 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 ...
A History of Force Feeding
(2016)
It is the first monograph-length study of the force-feeding of hunger strikers in English, Irish and Northern Irish prisons. It examines ethical debates that arose throughout the twentieth century when governments authorised ...
Animal (De)liberation
(2016)
"In this book, Jan Deckers addresses the most crucial question that people must deliberate in relation to how we should treat other animals: whether we should eat animal products. Many people object to the consumption of ...
The metamorphosis of autism
(2017)
"What is autism and where has it come from? Increased diagnostic rates, the rise of the 'neurodiversity' movement, and growing autism journalism, have recently fuelled autism's fame and controversy. The metamorphosis of ...
Chapter 5 Technological Accretion in Diagnostics
(2016)
This book brings together a collection of empirical case studies featuring a wide spectrum of medical innovation. While there is no unique pathway to successful medical innovation, recurring and distinctive features can ...
Chapter 5 Wolves Tongues and Mercury: Pharmaceutical Cures for Cancer
(2015)
The study of early modern cancer is significant for our understanding of the period’s medical theory and practice. In many respects, cancer exemplifies the flexibility of early modern medical thought, which managed to ...
Chapter 6 Cannot You Use a Loving Violence?: Cancer Surgery
(2015)
The study of early modern cancer is significant for our understanding of the period’s medical theory and practice. In many respects, cancer exemplifies the flexibility of early modern medical thought, which managed to ...
Chapter 1 What Was Cancer? Definition, Diagnosis and Cause
(2015)
The study of early modern cancer is significant for our understanding of the period’s medical theory and practice. In many respects, cancer exemplifies the flexibility of early modern medical thought, which managed to ...
Chapter Acknowledgements
(2015)
The study of early modern cancer is significant for our understanding of the period’s medical theory and practice. In many respects, cancer exemplifies the flexibility of early modern medical thought, which managed to ...
Chapter Bibliography
(2015)
The study of early modern cancer is significant for our understanding of the period’s medical theory and practice. In many respects, cancer exemplifies the flexibility of early modern medical thought, which managed to ...
Chapter Introduction
(2015)
The study of early modern cancer is significant for our understanding of the period’s medical theory and practice. In many respects, cancer exemplifies the flexibility of early modern medical thought, which managed to ...
Chapter 2 Pathogenesis
(2015)
This work contains updated and clinically relevant information about tuberculosis. It is aimed at providing a succinct overview of history and disease epidemiology, clinical presentation and the most recent scientific ...
Chapter 1 Epidemiology
(2015)
This work contains updated and clinically relevant information about tuberculosis. It is aimed at providing a succinct overview of history and disease epidemiology, clinical presentation and the most recent scientific ...