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Science and democracy on stage at the Science and Technology Select Committee
In this article, we explore the legalisation of mitochondrial donation in the UK as the latest iteration of an established sociotechnical imaginary...
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Contested Honours
Through the twentieth century attempts were made to reform the honours system to recognise the growth of class and gender divisions. A new imperial...
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Gendering Biomedical Science
This chapter has two main themes. The first primarily focuses on perceived biological sex differences that remain a potent source of bioscientific...
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Parkmaking, Municipalisation and Cultural Policy
This chapter examines the origins of municipal public parks in England and the policy rationales and actors that lay behind their establishment. It...
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The evolution, devolution and distribution of UK Biometric Imaginaries
This article critically examines UK biometric policymaking by charting the bodies identified by the 2018 Home Office Biometric Strategy as playing...
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Empire: From Corrupt Extraction to Civilising Mission c. 1757–1936
The chapter examines the long history of Britain’s Empire and how the purpose of empire transformed over time and how the British state sought to...
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Gay and Lesbian Collaborative Co-parenting: Recognising Multiple Parents in the Netherlands and the UK
In December 2016, the Dutch Government Committee on the Reassessment of Parenthood recommended introducing legislative amendments to allow for...
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The Evolution of Education Policy in Bangladesh: Past and Present
Since the independence of Bangladesh, the education sector has been a subject of citizens’ core expectations, criticisms and debates. The country is...
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Neoliberalism, Freedom, and the UK’s Response to COVID-19
In this chapter, we go straight to the heart of the matter and consider the implication of ingrained neoliberal norms and logics in the UK...
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Animal welfare chauvinism in Brexit Britain: a genealogy of care and control
This paper uses the deployment of animal welfare as an issue during the ‘Brexit’ referendum as a lens through which to explore the mutual sha** of...
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Disseminating Ideas: European Countermovement Activity
Predominantly focusing on Western Europe, although not exclusively, this chapter explores a strategic alliance of think tanks and individuals that...
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Ach, wie gut, dass niemand weiß…! Ortho- und heterodoxe Perspektiven auf die Ermordung John F. Kennedys
Dass Marcus Iunius Brutus oder John Wilkes Booth seinerzeit mit den Verschwörungen zur Beseitigung ihrer jeweiligen Staatsoberhäupter unerkannt...
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Hiroshima Prefecture Along the Sannyodo of the Goki-Shichido and Regional Variations
HiroshimaHiroshima Prefecture, located in the ancient SannyodoSannyodo of the Goki-ShichidoGoki-Shichido, consists of the previously named AkiAki and...
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What is Planning About?
Planning cities, as we understand it today, emerged in the early 1880s. Its evolution since then reflects changing social, economic, and...
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Introduction
This chapter provides the background to the Health, Technology and Society (HTS) book Series. All books in the Series address a number of broad...
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Environmental Security (Envirosec) (es4)
The natural environment supported the formation and sustenance of life on the planet. The environment to that extent is the aggregate of all...
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The uneven path of tramway development in England
This chapter is dedicated to the tramway renaissance in Engalnd. First, the development of the national policy towards the reintroduction of tramway...
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Reginald Berkeley: Pioneering Modernist Playwright and Political Radio Drama as Agitational Contemporaneity
This chapter provides extensive new research arguing that Reginald Berkeley was a modernist and political playwright who founded and pioneered some...
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Extremities: From the Tips of Her Fingers to the Tips of Her Toes
Fingers are vulnerable to industrial accidents and injury. Surgical expertise built through treating the consequences can be transferred into wounds...
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Applicability to Human Needs
This Chapter discusses the virtue of applicability to human needs and makes that case that it has generally failed to be applied to scientific...