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Health and Conflict: a History of Global Public Health

WebMA option, taught by Dora Vargha. From local to global, political through economic, conflicts pervade global health in manifold ways. We are waging wars on diseases, building up …

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A brief history of World Health Day – The Reluctant …

WebWHO headquarters on World Health Day. The 65 th annual celebration of World Health Day took place last week on 7 th April, with a global launch of the Small …

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Fascist International Health

WebThis blog post by David Brydan is part of, and has been cross-posted from, Remedia blog which examines the history of medicine in dialogue with the present. The …

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Beyond Brainwashing: Propaganda, Public Health, and Chinese …

WebThe Chinese Communist Party relied on the scientific expertise of leading Chinese researchers to lend credence to the allegations, but, as the film shows, it also …

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Psychiatry to end all wars: Postwar reconstruction, national …

WebAna Antic’s research project aims to interrogate the post-WWII emergence of discourses of internationalist, humanitarian and pacifist social psychiatry, and the way those …

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The Pathology of Boredom Hidden Persuaders

WebFor example, in 1957 Woodburn Heron published an article in Scientific American entitled ‘The Pathology of Boredom’. 2 The article describes experiments on …

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Dora Vargha – The Reluctant Internationalists (2013-2017)

WebDora Vargha’s work focuses on the intersections of history of science, medicine and technology, gender and disability, and on using the locality of Eastern …

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States of Security: John Bowlby, Child Psychology, and National

WebCarolyn Laubender discusses how child psychologists contributed to the Cold War discourse of “National Security”.

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Le Corbusier’s Venice Hospital: a genealogy of individual and

WebLe Corbusier’s Venice Hospital: a genealogy of individual and collective intelligence in his architecture. Sophia Psarra (Bartlett School of Architecture)

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Deviance, disorder and the self : Degeneration

WebDegeneracy represented the shadow side of philosopher Herbert Spencer’s optimistic imagining of evolution: it was the very opposite of received ideas of progression, a minus …

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What happened at Oak Ridge Psychiatric Unit

WebThe Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) recently aired a piece on the controversial history of Oak Ridge, the forensic mental health division of the Waypoint …

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Diphteria in Spain: The Reluctant Internationalists in El País and …

WebDora Vargha and David Bryan have written an article on the recent appearance of diphteria in Spain. The re-emergence of this infectious disease, which had …

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Travel Sickness – Pilgrim Libraries: books & reading on the …

WebRecent archaeological findings, moreover, suggest that a medieval English pilgrim contracted a foreign strain of leprosy in the Holy Land and died of the …

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Rites Undone Hidden Persuaders

WebRites Undone. Rites Undone is a short documentary tracing the journey of Nigerian victims of sex-trafficking in Italy. The film investigates the psychological methods of control used …

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3. Sustainable consumption in history: ideas, resources and …

Web52 Handbook of research on sustainable consumption different trajectories can shed light on the potential of pathways to sustainability today and the flexibility and stickiness of the …

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Civic Centre: Architecture, Civic Design, and the Municipal Project …

WebCivic Centre: Architecture, Civic Design, and the Municipal Project in Interwar Norwich. Neal Shasore (University of Liverpool) 7 December 6pm. Keynes Library, …

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Architecture in Time: The Temporal Conditions of Design

WebArchitecture in time considers the social complexity of buildings, it brings to the fore time as a creative force in design, and makes architecture depend on society. …

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Otto Koenigsberger & Global Histories of Modernism

WebOtto Koenigsberger & Global Histories of Modernism. 28 November 2019, 6pm – 7.30pm. Room 106, Birkbeck School of Arts, 43 Gordon Sq, London WC1H 0PD. …

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