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Chapter “The Root of All Evil is Inactivity”
(2021)
This chapter focuses on the varied responses of French psychiatrists to new
theories of patient occupation emerging after World War I (1914–18).
Chapter In Search of Sympathy
(2021)
In this essay, I place in historical context the three themes identified as important for the image of nursing in the Nursing Mirror competition, using nursing textbooks, diaries, memoirs, institutional and committee records ...
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 ...
Chapter 11 Diagrams in Greek Medical Manuscripts
(2022)
In this chapter I provide a critical examination of different forms of medical diagrams in Greek
manuscripts, which are related to works by both ancient Greek and Byzantine medical authors. Due
to the large number of ...