Browsing School of History by Title
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Genetic Testing
(Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 2003-12-08)Remarkable strides were made in the twentieth century in understanding the basis of heredity and in deciphering how the genes, the units of heredity, function. Chaired by Professor Marcus Pembrey, and attended by a group ... -
Genetics & Health
(2017-06-01)The History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group originated in 1990 as the Wellcome Trust’s History of Twentieth Century Medicine Group, which in October 2000 became a part of the Wellcome Trust’s Centre for the History ... -
Glasnost in the Streets
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Green, Richard: transcript of a video interview (17-Dec-2015)
(29/06/2016)Interview with Professor Richard Green, conducted by Professor Tilli Tansey, for the History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group, 17 December 2015, in the School of History, Queen Mary University of London. Transcribed ... -
Green, Richard: transcript of an audio interview (17-Dec-2015)
(29/06/2016)Interview with Professor Richard Green, conducted by Professor Tilli Tansey, for the History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group, 17 December 2015, in the School of History, Queen Mary University of London. Transcribed ... -
Gregory, Richard: transcript of a video interview (06- and 07-Feb-2007)
(26/06/2017)Richard Gregory was Head of the Brain and Perception Laboratory at the University of Bristol and is internationally recognized for his new insights into the mechanisms underlying visual perception i.e. those that underlie ... -
Gronow, Jan: transcript of an audio interview (23-Oct-2015)
(13/12/2016)Interview with Professor Jan Gronow, conducted by Ms Lynda Finn, for the History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group, 23 October 2015, in Imperial College London. Transcribed by Mrs Debra Gee, and edited by Ms Emma M. ... -
Hannah Arendt
(Zed Books, 2016-11-15)Offering an insightful and thought-provoking guide to the work of many famous writers who continue to influence and inform contemporary political, philosophical, sociological, and cultural study, Histories of Violence is ... -
Harper, Peter: transcript of a video interview (06-Jun-2015)
(20/03/2017)Interview with Professor Peter Harper, conducted by Professor Tilli Tansey, for the History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group, 06 June 2015, in the School of History, Queen Mary University of London. Transcribed by Mrs ... -
De Hemptinne, The Benedictines, and Catholic Assimilation on the Congolese Copperbelt, 1911-1960
This article explores the history of the Benedictines in south-eastern Congo. The Benedictine leader, Jean-Félix De Hemptinne, eschewed an adaptationist approach to his mission work in favour of an assimilationist one. ... -
"A hideous torture on himself": madness and self-mutilation in Victorian literature.
(2011-12)This paper suggests that late nineteenth-century definitions of self-mutilation, a new category of psychiatric symptomatology, were heavily influenced by the use of self-injury as a rhetorical device in the novel, for the ... -
Historical Perspectives on Rural Medicine
(2017)Introduced by Professor Geoffrey Hudson, this volume comprises edited transcripts of two Witness Seminars held in 2010 and 2015 on the history and development of rural medicine. Participants in London and others world-wide ... -
History and Nature in Karl Marx: Marx’s Debt to German Idealism
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2017-03-01)