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Meat, Medicine and Human Health in the Twentieth Century

Meat, Medicine and Human Health in the Twentieth Century

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As Keir Waddington's paper suggests, similar tensions can be described in other countries. Keir Waddington's paper explores British government responses to bovine tuberculosis and BSE, and their relations to the ways in which the risks to  ...
Charity and the London Hospitals, 1850-1898

Charity and the London Hospitals, 1850-1898

Keir Waddington

A study of the development of the hospital as a economic, medical and voluntary institution in the second half of the nineteenth century.
An Introduction to the Social History of Medicine: Europe ...

An Introduction to the Social History of Medicine: Europe ...

Keir Waddington

A one-volume, detailed survey of the major debates and themes in the history of western medicine, from the early modern period to the present.
Thomas Hardy and Animals

Thomas Hardy and Animals

Anna West

Keir Waddington notes that after 1850 the meaning of “unwholesome” in application to meat shifted from indicating putrid food to “denotsing] meat from diseased livestock,” as scientific investigation into the nature of disease began to explore ...
The Bovine Scourge: Meat, Tuberculosis and Public Health, ...

The Bovine Scourge: Meat, Tuberculosis and Public Health, ...

Keir Waddington

Investigation of the complex issues surrounding the links between bovine tuberculosis and infected meat - with a contemporary resonance in the BSE scare.
Pragmatic Idealism: Critical Essays on Nicholas Rescher's ...

Pragmatic Idealism: Critical Essays on Nicholas Rescher's ...

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10 Enemies Within: Postwar Bethlem and the Maudsley Hospital Keir Waddington Apparently much is known about the Bethlem Royal Hospital and its alter-ego, Bedlam.1 It can boast to being the oldest mental hospital in England, while the ...
Medical Education at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, 1123-1995

Medical Education at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, 1123-1995

Keir Waddington

They had already given money to the hospital 55 Joan Austoker, 'Walter Morley Fletcher and the Origins of a Basic Biomedical Research Policy', in Historical Perspectives on the Role of the Medical Research Council: Essays in the History of ...
Cultures of Psychiatry and Mental Health Care in Postwar ...

Cultures of Psychiatry and Mental Health Care in Postwar ...

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10 Enemies Within: Postwar Bethlem and the Maudsley Hospital Keir Waddington Apparently much is known about the Bethlem Royal Hospital and its alter-ego, Bedlam.1 It can boast to being the oldest mental hospital in England, while the ...
Keir Hardie:

Keir Hardie:

Bob Holman

Keir Hardie was a founder and the first parliamentary leader of the Labour Party.
Making it comparable

Making it comparable

David J. Waddington

Peter Nentwig* and David Waddington* # *Leibniz-Institutfür die Pädagogik der Naturwissenschaften (IPN), Olshausenstraße 62, 24098 Kiel, Germany # Department of Chemistry, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK This international ...
Science Education Unlimited: Approaches to Equal ...

Science Education Unlimited: Approaches to Equal ...

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... approaches used to evaluate the programmes are identified. Judith Bennett, John Holman, Robin Millar and David Waddington (Eds.) ... out of the chapters in the earlier parts and looks at the future. Peter Nentwig, David Waddington (Eds.)  ...
Shakespeare's Pictures: Visual Objects in the Drama

Shakespeare's Pictures: Visual Objects in the Drama

Keir Elam

The book covers many of the most canonical and studied of Shakespeare's plays, giving new critical insight and argument.
Medical Assisting: Administrative and Clinical Competencies

Medical Assisting: Administrative and Clinical Competencies

Lucille Keir

This exciting new edition covers the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values necessary for you to become a successful, multi-skilled medical assistant.
Aretino's Satyr: Sexuality, Satire and Self-projection in ...

Aretino's Satyr: Sexuality, Satire and Self-projection in ...

Raymond B. Waddington

Pietro Aretino's literary influence was felt throughout most of Europe during the sixteenth-century, yet English-language criticism of this writer's work and persona has hitherto been sparse.
Impulse Archaeology

Impulse Archaeology

Eldon Garnet

There's also poetry written by Jane Beecroft intended for an opera. And the rest of the poems in this issue contain their own unique music. Many readers will recognize familiar names such as Miriam Waddington, Dorothy Livesay, Irving Layton, ...
Shakespeare, Italy, and Intertextuality

Shakespeare, Italy, and Intertextuality

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KEIR ELAM (.In en II iis nonfacit monachum : habit and habitus Towards the end of the sixteenth century a number of publications appeared describing contemporary English society as it were from without, i.e. from a 'foreign' perspective, ...
The Semiotics of Theatre and Drama

The Semiotics of Theatre and Drama

Keir Elam

This edition also includes a new post-script by the author, looking at the fate of theatre semiotics since the publication of this book, and a fully updated bibliography.
Shakespeare, Politics, and Italy: Intertextuality on the ...

Shakespeare, Politics, and Italy: Intertextuality on the ...

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What would have made placing such accusations of lost identity in the speech of Portia so effective, however, was that Italian ridicule of the English was central to the rhetorical strategies of Rankins and Ascham. While Keir Elam has argued ...
Amateurism in Sport: An Analysis and Defence

Amateurism in Sport: An Analysis and Defence

Lincoln Allison

John Hoberman, Mortal Engines: The Science of Performance and the Dehumanization of Sport (Free Press, 1992). 19. I am indebted to Ellis Cashmore for this speculation and to Ivan Waddington for pointing out that, when the Dutch TVM and ...
Medical Assisting: Essentials of Administrative and Clinical ...

Medical Assisting: Essentials of Administrative and Clinical ...

Lucille Keir

Benefits: Icons in each unit direct you to the administrative and clinical skills CD-ROMs in the back of the book for practice activities to help you better understand concepts.
The Unified Operations of the Human Soul: Jonathan Edwards's ...

The Unified Operations of the Human Soul: Jonathan Edwards's ...

Jeffrey C. Waddington

Before attempting to answer this question, we need to consider an alternative perspective on edwards. ava Chamberlain, editor of the eighteenth volume of the Yale edition of edwards's Works offers another take on edwards and his apologetic ...
Looking Into Providences: Designs and Trials in Paradise Lost

Looking Into Providences: Designs and Trials in Paradise Lost

Raymond Waddington

96 Armitage, 'The Cromwellian Protectorate and the Languages of Empire,' 538; on the Western Design, see 536—46; and Robert Fallon, 'Cromwell, Milton, and the Western Design.' 97 For the textual history, see Shawcross, appendix, ...
Queer Virgins and Virgin Queans on the Early Modern Stage

Queer Virgins and Virgin Queans on the Early Modern Stage

Mary Bly

As Raymond Waddington has pointed out, Shakespeare's line 'assigns dominance to the phallus', giving a portrait of "the ambivalent sexuality that is the essence of this beautiful young man's character'. Shakespeare's Sounett. 20: t3 t4  ...
Shakespeare's Universe of Discourse: Language-Games in the ...

Shakespeare's Universe of Discourse: Language-Games in the ...

Keir Elam

This book makes ample use of approaches to language within linguistics, semiotics, the philosophy of language and sociology, in order to do justice to the subtlety of Shakespeare's verbal artistry.
Reading Shakespeare's Dramatic Language

Reading Shakespeare's Dramatic Language

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12 LANGUAGE AND THE BODY Keir Elam MEAN MEANING1 The 'meaning' of the body on stage is one of the most problematic areas of current criticism, partly because so few people have paid attention to it until quite recently. Yet the body ...

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