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July | 2015 | Diseases of Modern Life
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Diseases of Modern Life. Professor Sally Shuttleworth elected as Fellow of the British Academy. July 17, 2015. July 17, 2015. Many congratulations to Professor Sally Shuttleworth who has been elected a Fellow of the British Academy. Elects new Fellows annually for distinction in the humanities and social sciences, and this year has elected 42 distinguished academics in recognition of their outstanding research. The Living and the Dead captures Victorian anxieties about science and the supernatural. Macch...
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June | 2015 | Diseases of Modern Life
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Diseases of Modern Life. Working with 19th Century Medical and Health Periodicals Workshop featured in The Lancet. June 30, 2015. Medical Periodicals: Mining the Past, by Oxford based science writer Georgina Ferry,. Has been published in The Lancet (Volume 385, number 9987, 27 June 2015) and features a number of the papers presented at the workshop. The article is available on. New Directions in Drinking Studies, a conference at the University of Leicester. June 10, 2015. Century chicha struggled to hold...
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Diseases of Modern Life. How did the introduction of new technologies (of writing, communication, transport) change work and generated new risks and fears of disease? How did occupational sedentarism come to be regarded as a medical risk? How did office design evolve during the nineteenth century? How was medical knowledge about musculoskeletal disorders produced during this period? Jennifer’s project, ‘Pollutant or Panacea: Air in 19. Professor Dr Anne-Julia Zwierlein. Professor Jenny Bourne Taylor.
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New Directions in Drinking Studies, a conference at the University of Leicester | Diseases of Modern Life
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Diseases of Modern Life. New Directions in Drinking Studies, a conference at the University of Leicester. June 10, 2015. Last weekend the Drinking Studies Network. Century by tequila, replacing pulque as the ‘national drink’ of Mexico. Consumers, of course, were at the centre of much of the weekend’s discussions, and alcohol’s potential for harm was examined across various periods and countries. There were obvious historical parallels between the middle-class drinking ‘subcultures’ of today, di...One tho...
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‘Pearls before swine’ or heavenly messengers? The work of the Victorian Flower Missions | Diseases of Modern Life
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Diseases of Modern Life. 8216;Pearls before swine’ or heavenly messengers? The work of the Victorian Flower Missions. January 21, 2015. In the second half of the nineteenth century the pollution of urban centres made the divide between town and country startlingly clear to many. Bringing a little of the country and suburbs to the inner city, however, were the Flower Missions, voluntary organisations that distributed flowers to the sick and poverty-stricken with messages of hope and comfort. She also note...
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Workshop Report: Working with 19th-Century Medical and Health Periodicals | Diseases of Modern Life
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Diseases of Modern Life. Workshop Report: Working with 19th-Century Medical and Health Periodicals. June 9, 2015. June 9, 2015. The workshop ‘Working with 19th-Century Medical and Health Periodicals’ was held on 30 May 2015 and co-organized by the ERC-funded ‘Diseases of Modern Life’. Project and the AHRC-funded ‘Constructing Scientific Communities’. To publicize their work with periodicals via feature articles and blogs, to join discussion lists, etc. And Damian Nicolaou from the Wellcome Library. One t...
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Working with 19th Century Medical and Health Periodicals Workshop featured in The Lancet | Diseases of Modern Life
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Diseases of Modern Life. Working with 19th Century Medical and Health Periodicals Workshop featured in The Lancet. June 30, 2015. Medical Periodicals: Mining the Past, by Oxford based science writer Georgina Ferry,. Has been published in The Lancet (Volume 385, number 9987, 27 June 2015) and features a number of the papers presented at the workshop. The article is available on. New Directions in Drinking Studies, a conference at the University of Leicester. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Objects of Research...
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Professor Sally Shuttleworth elected as Fellow of the British Academy | Diseases of Modern Life
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Diseases of Modern Life. Professor Sally Shuttleworth elected as Fellow of the British Academy. July 17, 2015. July 17, 2015. Many congratulations to Professor Sally Shuttleworth who has been elected a Fellow of the British Academy. Elects new Fellows annually for distinction in the humanities and social sciences, and this year has elected 42 distinguished academics in recognition of their outstanding research. Working with 19th Century Medical and Health Periodicals Workshop featured in The Lancet.
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Workshop Report: Working with 19th-Century Medical and Health Periodicals | Diseases of Modern Life
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Diseases of Modern Life. Workshop Report: Working with 19th-Century Medical and Health Periodicals. June 9, 2015. June 9, 2015. The workshop ‘Working with 19th-Century Medical and Health Periodicals’ was held on 30 May 2015 and co-organized by the ERC-funded ‘Diseases of Modern Life’. Project and the AHRC-funded ‘Constructing Scientific Communities’. To publicize their work with periodicals via feature articles and blogs, to join discussion lists, etc. And Damian Nicolaou from the Wellcome Library. One t...
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