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The spoken word: oral culture in Britain, 1500-1850
edited by Adam Fox and Daniel Woolf.
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- 9780719057465
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- x, 286 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Series Title
- Politics, culture, and society in early modern Britain
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- 398.0941 FOX t
All in the mix: race, class and school choice
All in the mix: class, race and school choice considers how parents choose secondary schools for their children and makes an important intervention into debates on school choice and education. The book examines how parents talk about race, religion and class – in the process of choosing. It also explores how parents’ own racialised and classed positions, as well as their experience of educa…
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- 9781526139306
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- vi, 184p.; 23 cm
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- 370.117 BYR a
A history of force feeding : hunger strikes, prisons and medical ethics, 1909…
This book 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 the force-feeding of imprisoned suffragettes, Irish republicans and convict prisoners. It also explores the fraught role of prison doctors called upon to perform the…
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- 9783319311135
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- ix, 267p. : ill.
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- 306.09 MIL h
Mobile professional voluntarism and international development : killing me so…
This book explores the impact that professional volunteers have on the low resource countries they choose to spend time in. Whilst individual volunteering may be of immediate benefit to individual patients, this intervention may have detrimental effects on local health systems; distorting labour markets, accentuating dependencies and creating opportunities for corruption. Improved volunteer dep…
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- 9781137558336
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- xv, 173p. : ill.
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- 320 ACK m
Investigating the body in the Victorian asylum : doctors, patients, and pract…
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 of techniques and technologies were brought to bear upon the patient's body. These practices encompassed the clinical and the pathological, from testing the patient's ref…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783319567143
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- xvi, 276p. : ill.
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- 306.09 WAL i
Healthcare, frugal innovation, and professional voluntarism : a cost-benefit …
This book investigates what international placements of healthcare employees in low resource settings add to the UK workforce and the efficacy of the its national health system. The authors present empirical data collected from a volunteer deployment project in Uganda focused on reducing maternal and new-born mortality and discuss the learning and experiential outcomes for UK health care profes…
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- 9783319483665
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- xi, 141p. : ill.
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- 362.10941 HEA h
The Old English translation of Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum …
Did King Alfred the Great commission the Old English translation of Bede’s Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum, probably the masterpiece of medieval Anglo-Latin Literature, as part of his famous program of translation to educate the Anglo-Saxons? Was the Old English Historia, by any chance, a political and religious manifesto for the emerging ‘Kingdom of the Anglo-Saxons’? Do we deal w…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 978386395189
- Collation
- 411 p.
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- Call Number
- 274.2 LEM o
European citizenship after Brexit : freedom of movement and rights of residence
This book investigates European citizenship after Brexit, in light of the functionalist theory of citizenship. No matter its shape, Brexit will impact significantly on what has been labelled as one of the major achievements of EU integration: Citizenship of the Union. For the first time an automatic and collective lapse of status is observed. It is a form of involuntary loss of citizenship en m…
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- 9783319517742
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- viii, 123p. :ill.
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- 342.24085 MIN e
Anti-vivisection and the profession of medicine in Britain : a social history
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 that inspired the movement and the socio-political background that explains its rise and fall. Opposition to vivisection began when medical practitioners complained it was contrary to the compassionate ethos of their profes…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781137556974
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- xxi, 217p. : ill.
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- 179.4 BAT a
Child protection in England, 1960-2000 : expertise, experience, and emotion
This open access book explores how children, parents, and survivors reshaped the politics of child protection in late twentieth-century England. Activism by these groups, often manifested in small voluntary organisations, drew upon and constructed an expertise grounded in experience and emotion that supported, challenged, and subverted medical, social work, legal, and political authority. New…
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- 9783319947181
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- ix, 215p. : ill.
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- 362.70942 CRA c
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