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Making the ‘genetic counsellor’ in the United Kingdom, 1980–1995
The professional identity of the ‘genetic counsellor’ first took shape in the UK in the early 1990s, when the University of Manchester established the country’s first masters-level training course. Postwar, genetic counselling ... -
Manifesto: Networks of Decolonization in Asia and Africa
(Duke University Press, 2018-05-01)Scholarship on the Afro-Asian era has tended to focus on major diplomatic events. This manifesto is a call to acknowledge the larger Afro-Asian environment in which the “Bandung moment” took place, focusing on transnational ... -
Mansions in the Orchard: architecture, asylum and community in twentieth-century mental health care
(Manchester University Press, 2019-11-30)This chapter explores the value and relevance of a combined academic and public engagement approach to the history of medicine. The authors consider a specific mental health project at the Bethlem Museum of the Mind, in ... -
Maps Versus Networks
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Massacre in the Clouds An American Atrocity and the Erasure of History
(PublicAffairs, 2024-05-07)In March 1906, American soldiers on the island of Jolo in the southern Philippines surrounded and killed 1000 local men, women, and children, known as Moros, on top of an extinct volcano. The so-called 'Battle of Bud Dajo' ... -
Medical genetics: Development of ethical dimensionsin clinical practice and research
(Queen Mary University of London, 2016-02-22)A Witness Seminar on the emergence of complex ethical issues in clinical genetics practice, the evolution of these issues over several decades of advances in medical genetics research and social change, and the professionalization ... -
‘Medieval’, ‘Renaissance’, ‘Modern’. Issues of Periodization in Italian University History
(The Society for Renaissance Studies / John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2013-09-13)Italian university historiography is strongly influenced by current notions of periodization and change. ‘Medieval’ universities have been seen as unique but soon outdated creations, to be overtaken by ‘Renaissance’ ... -
Message in a Bottle: Vaccines and the Nature of Heredity after 1880
(MIT Press, 2016-07-01)This book examines the wide range of scientific and social arenas in which the concept of inheritance gained relevance in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. -
Millennium and Enlightenment: Robert Owen and the Second Coming of the Truth
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Mind-Boggling Medical History: Creating a medical history game for nurses
(Science Museum Group, 2019-05-07)This article examines the development of the resource ‘Mind-Boggling Medical History’, a card game developed to introduce medical and healthcare history to new and non-traditional audiences for the subject. We explore the ... -
Monoclonal Antibodies to Migraine: Witnesses to modern biomedicine, an A-Z
(Queen Mary, University of London, 2014-09-01)The History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group hosted its first Witness Seminar, on monoclonal antibodies, in 1993. Since then more than sixty such meetings have been held, the most recent on migraine in 2013. These all ... -
Montaigne in England and America
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The Moral Parameters of Violence: The Case of the Provisional IRA
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THE MOTHER TONGUE: HISTORICAL STUDY OF THE CELTS AND THEIR LANGUAGE(S) IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN AND IRELAND
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Mountains' Economies and Societies in A Global World.
(Odradek, 2017-09-28)Con questa raccolta di studi sulle trasformazioni sociali ed economiche degli ambienti montani abbiamo voluto tracciare un quadro delle vie alla modernizzazione delle aree montane su scala globale tra Otto e Novecento e ...
