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A History of Self-Harm in Britain: A Genealogy of Cutting and Overdosing
This book is the first account of self-harming behaviour in its proper historical and political context. The rise of self-cutting and overdosing in the 20th century is linked to the sweeping changes in mental and physical health, and wider political context. The welfare state, social work, Second World War, closure of the asylums, even the legalization of suicide, are all implicated in the prom…
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- 9781137529626
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A History of Scottish Economic Thought
Modern economics has, at its foundation, scholarly contributions from many prominent Scottish thinkers. This revealing work examines the roots of this great tradition, places in perspective a selection of authors, and assesses their contribution over three centuries in the light of a distinctive Scottish approach to economics. Scottish Enlightenment is an established area of research interest, …
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- 9780203486238
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- 224 hlm
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A History of Scientific Journals : Publishing at the Royal Society, 1665-2015
Modern scientific research has changed so much since Isaac Newton's day: it is more professional, collaborative and international, with more complicated equipment and a more diverse community of researchers. Yet the use of scientific journals to report, share and store results is a thread that runs through the history of science from Newton's day to ours. Scientific journals are now central to …
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- 9781800082342
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- 666 hlm
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A History of Radionuclide Studies in the UK : 50th Anniversary of the British…
A history of UK radionuclide studies reveals pioneering work from George von Hevesy in Manchester (1911) through to modern PET/MR, with key developments including early homemade scanners (Mallard, Mayneord), GFR measurement, radioimmunoassay, SPECT/CT, and advanced brain imaging (FDG, amyloid). Driven by medical physicists and later clinicians, the field progressed from tracer studies (I-131, T…
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- 978-3-319-28624-2
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- 152 hlm
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A History of Population Health: Rise and Fall of Disease in Europe
In A History of Population Health Johan P. Mackenbach offers a broad-sweeping study of the spectacular changes in people’s health in Europe since the early 18th century. Most of the 40 specific diseases covered in this book show a fascinating pattern of ‘rise-and-fall’, with large differences in timing between countries. Using a unique collection of historical data and bringing together i…
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- Volume: 101
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- 9789004429130
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- 442 hlm
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A history of participation in museums and archives : traversing citizen scien…
Traversing disciplines, A History of Participation in Museums and Archives provides a framework for understanding how participatory modes in natural, cultural, and scientific heritage institutions intersect with practices in citizen science and citizen humanities. Drawing on perspectives in cultural history, science and technology studies, and media and communication theory, the book explore…
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- 9780429197536
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- 310 p
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- 020 HIS
A History of Modern Lebanon - Second Edition
This is the second updated edition of the first comprehensive history of Lebanon in the modern period. Written by a leading Lebanese scholar, and based on previously inaccessible archives, it is a fascinating and beautifully-written account of one of the world's most fabled countries. Starting with the formation of Ottoman Lebanon in the 16th century, Traboulsi covers the growth of Beirut as a…
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- 9781849647281
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A History of Male Psychological Disorders in Britain, 1945-1980
This book is open access under a CC BY license and explores the under-researched history of male mental illness from the mid-twentieth century. It argues that statistics suggesting women have been more vulnerable to depression and anxiety are misleading since they underplay a host of alternative presentations of 'distress' more common in men.
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- 978-1-137-44888-0
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A History of Japan’s Government-Business Relationship : The Passenger Car I…
Despite the economic and political importance of the U.S.-Japan relationship and the extensive attention paid to automotive trade, few American scholars or policy makers are familiar with the history of Japanese government-business relations, either generally or for specific industries such as passenger cars. This book hopefully helps in a small way to fill that gap in our knowledge and, thus, …
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- 252 hlm
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A History of Intelligence and 'Intellectual Disability' : The Shaping of Psyc…
Starting with the hypothesis that not only human intelligence but also its antithesis 'intellectual disability' are nothing more than historical contingencies, C.F. Goodey's paradigm-shifting study traces the rich interplay between labelled human types and the radically changing characteristics attributed to them. From the twelfth-century beginnings of European social administration to the onse…
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