Published June, 2017
By David Bolton
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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What are the human consequences of conflict and what are the appropriate service responses? This book seeks to provide an answer to these important questions, drawing on over twenty-five years of work by the author in Northern Ireland and elsewhere. -- .

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Published May, 2017
By Stephen Snelders
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Leprosy and colonialism investigates the history of leprosy in Suriname within the context of Dutch colonial power and racial conflict, from the plantation economy and the age of slavery to its legacy in the modern colonial state. -- .

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Published May, 2017
By Claire Edwards and Eluska Fernandez
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This study demonstrates how governmentality can be used to understand some of Ireland's contemporary health issues and dilemmas. By drawing on a range of empirical contexts, it explores the potential of governmentality to contribute to a critical politics of Irish health and health policy. -- .

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Published April, 2017
By Julie Anderson and Claire L. Jones
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A collection of essays examining the development and commodification of prostheses in Britain and America that occurred during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, due to the shift to standardized industrial manufacturing and associated market growth. -- .

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Published March, 2017
By Joy Damousi, Birgit Lang and Alison Lewis
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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The case study is a modern genre that has not yet outgrown its original purpose. This collection tells the story of the genre as inseparable from the foundation of sexology and psychoanalysis, and integral to the history of European literature. -- .

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Published March, 2017
By Stuart Blume, David Cantor, Stuart S. Blume, Christine Holmberg, Paul Greenough and Paul Greenhalgh
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Provides a comprehensive, comparative study of global vaccine politics and their social, economic and historical context. -- .

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Published February, 2017
By Keir Waddington and Bonnie Evans
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This is the first detailed exploration of the history of autism in the UK. Drawing from extensive and highly original archival research as well as investigations of published literature it describes the political, social and institutional background which made the study and increased diagnosis of autism possible. -- .

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Published February, 2017
By Keir Waddington and George Campbell Gosling
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Examines how commercial medicine operated before the foundation of the NHS, and how this could be compatible with a system based on charity. It challenges the assumptions of historians, politicians and the public. -- .

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Published January, 2017
By Andrew Thompson and Peter Hobbins
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Presents a radically new view of the role of science and scientific methodology in the colonies. It explores the role of snakes, snakebite and snake venom in the emerging science of nineteenth-century Australia and India, the neglected significance of inter-colony exchanges and conflicts and the importance of vivisection to science. -- .

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Published January, 2017
By Julie Anderson, Heather R. Perry, Walton Schalick and Heather Perry
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Examines the "medical organisation" of Imperial Germany for total war -- .

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