Published August, 2020
By Michael Keith and Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book is a collection of essays exploring different aspects of health and wellbeing in cities today. With contributions on Brazil, China, South Africa and the United Kingdom, the volume covers a range of fields including mental health, migration, mobility, sanitation, gendered violence and structural racism from a multidisciplinary perspective. -- .

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Published June, 2020
By Sylvie Kleiman-Lafon, Rebecca Anne Barr and Sophie Vasset
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This collection of essays addresses the belly and the bowels as key elements in our understanding of eighteenth-century mentalities, emotions, and perceptions of the self. -- .

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Published June, 2020
By Ida Milne
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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A social history of the 1918-19 influenza pandemic's effects on an Ireland where normal patterns of life were disturbed by war and the growing separatist movement. The influenza seemed to disrupt every aspect of Irish life - culture, economics, politics, medicine and family life. -- .

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Published April, 2020
By Mariko Hori Tanaka, Yoshiki Tajiri and Michiko Tsushima
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Samuel Beckett and trauma, the collection of eight essays by leading academics, broadens and enriches the present fields of both trauma studies and Beckett studies by illuminating the uniqueness of the trauma in Beckett's work in relation to historical contexts. It also provides new perspectives for discussing trauma and literature more generally. -- .

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Published April, 2020
By Marion Andrea Schmidt
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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How did American geneticists go from fearing the dysgenic effects of deaf intermarriage to considering modern biotechnology a threat for Deaf culture? This book provides insight into changing ideas of what deafness is, what science and medicine should achieve, and to the transformative effect of exchange between scientists and deaf communities. -- .

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Published April, 2020
By Michael Robinson
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This study provides the first exclusive analysis of disabled First World War veterans who returned to Ireland. With a case study of mental illness, it foregrounds how the treatment and experiences of disabled communities in past societies is shaped by the existing socio-economic, cultural and political context. -- .

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Published March, 2020
By James Thompson and Amanda Stuart Fisher
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Performing care explores the relation between socially-engaged performance and care and care ethics. It questions how performance might be understood as caring or uncaring and how care might be viewed as an embodied or aesthetic practice --arguing for more careful art and artful care. -- .

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Published March, 2020
By Martin Atherton, Iain Hutchison and Jaipreet Virdi
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Disability and the Victorians investigates the attitudes of Victorians towards people with impairments, illustrates how these influenced the interventions they introduced to support such people and considers the legacies they left behind by their actions and perspectives. A range of impairments are addressed in a variety of contexts. -- .

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Published March, 2020
By Julian Simpson
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Migrant Architects is the first book to assess the impact of the migration of doctors from the Indian subcontinent on postwar development of British general practice and by extension the ways in which they influenced the development of the NHS. -- .

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Published March, 2020
By Mark Jackson and Martin D. Moore
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Balancing the Self generates new insights into emerging fields of health governance, subjectivity and balance. This volume's wide-ranging discussions will be of interest to historians of medicine, sociologists, social policy analysts, and social and political historians, as well as lay and professional readers. -- .

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