Open Access Publications
Many of my recent articles and chapters are open access publications. Follow the links below, if you would like to read more:
NHS Related:
- 'A spawning of the nether pit'? Welfare, warfare and American visions of Britain's National Health Service, 1948-58, in Jennifer Crane and Jane Hand, (eds), Posters, Protest and Prescriptions: Cultural Histories of the National Health Service in Britain (Manchester: Manchester University Press, forthcoming May 2022).
- 'Suspect' screening: the limits of Britain's medicalised borders, 1962-1981. in Sevasti Trubeta, Christian Promitzer and Paul Weindling, (eds),
Medicalising borders: Selection, containment and quarantine since 1800 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2021).
- Commentary: Serving the nation, serving the people: echoes of war in the early NHS. Medical Humanities, Online First, (June 2020), DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2019-011760
- 'Weighing on us all? Quantification and cultural responses to obesity in NHS Britain', in History of Science, Vol 58, Issue 2, (June 2020), doi.org/10.1177/0073275319842965.
- With Stephanie Tierney and Kate Seers, 'Compassion in Nursing: Solution or Sterotype?', in Nursing Inquiry, Online First, (Dec 2018), DOI: 10.1111/nin.12271.
- With Julie A Schmittdiel, Wendy T Dyer and Cassondra J Marshall, 'Using Neighborhood-Level Census Data to Predict Diabetes Progression in Patients with Laboratory-Defined Prediabetes', in The Permanente Journal, (Oct 2018): doi.org/10.7812/TPP/18-096.
- With Kate Seers and Stephanie Tierney, 'Compassionate Care: Not easy, not free, not only nurses', in BMJ Quality & Safety, Online First, (Sep 2017): doi: 10.1136/bmjqs-2017-007005.
- 'Picturing Race in the British National Health Service, 1948-1988', Twentieth Century British History, Vol 28, 1, (March 2017): doi: 10.1093/tcbh/hww059.
Migration Related:
- 'Pilot programmes and postcolonial pivots: Pioneering 'DNA Fingerprinting' on Britain's borders'. In Contemporary Studies in Society and History, Online First, (Jan 2023).
- Forgone, Not Forgotten: “DNA Fingerprinting,” Migration Control and Britain’s DNA Profiling Pilot Project'. In Science, Technology, & Human Values, Online First, (Dec 2022).
- 'Suspect' screening: the limits of Britain's medicalised borders, 1962-1981. in Sevasti Trubeta, Christian Promitzer and Paul Weindling, (eds),
Medicalising borders: Selection, containment and quarantine since 1800 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2021).
- 'Picturing Race in the British National Health Service, 1948-1988', Twentieth Century British History, Vol 28, 1, (March 2017): doi: 10.1093/tcbh/hww059.
- 'Ideology and Disease Identity: The Politics of Rickets, 1929-1982', Medical Humanities, 39.2 (Dec 2013).
- 'Coming "Home" to (post)Colonial Medicine: Tropical Bodies in Post-War Britain', Social History of Medicine 2012; doi: 10.1093/shm/hks058.
- ‘"The people have no more love left for the Commonwealth”: Media, Migration and Identity in the 1961-2 British Smallpox Outbreak’, Immigrants and Minorities, 25 (November 2008) 3: 263-289.
- '"The English Disease" or "Asian Rickets": Medical Responses to Post-Colonial Immigration', Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 81.3 (Autumn, 2007), 533-568.
Other Topics:
- with Hilary Marland, ‘Weighting for Health: Management, Measurement and Self-Surveillance in the Modern Household’, in special issue of Social History of Medicine 'Medicine in the Household', Vol 29, 4 (Nov 2016) (eds), Roberta Bivins and Hilary Marland.
- ‘Hybrid Vigour? Genes, Genomics, and History’, Genomics, Society and Policy 14 (2008) 1: 12-22.
- 'Imagining Acupuncture: Images and the Early Westernisation of Asian Medical Expertise', Asian Medicine: Tradition and Modernity, 7.2 (Jan 2014), 298-318. post-print PDF, courtesy Brill: 'Imagining Acupuncture'.