Lectures

June 16, 2022

Writing Life No. 19: An Interview with Jason Pine

This article is part of the series: Writing Life

Figure 1 (Jason): Writing is painful for me. I do TRX Suspension Training with an amazing online and affordable personal trainer/physical therapist (email me and I’ll give you his number) to correct my posture. I rest the nape of my neck on my orange wedge called a Davinci (try it), to release tension. I use Tizanidine (feels great), and sometimes

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Lectures

September 10, 2020

Fit for Purpose? Prime Minister Johnson’s Two Bodies and the UK Better Health Strategy

By Kandida Purnell

This article is part of the series: Dispatches from the pandemic

Amongst the UK’s current Conservative Government, rhetorically invoking the body politic is common practice. For example, in 2019 Number 10 Special Advisor Dominic Cummings argued that a European reformist faction within the Tory party “should be treated like a metastasising tumour and excised from the UK body politic” while UK Prime Minister (PM) Boris Johnson deployed the metaphor as a …

Lectures

August 10, 2020

The ‘Dark Ages’ – a misused metaphor for a post-antibiotic future

By Rachel Irwin

This article is part of the series: Dispatches from the pandemic

In 2014, then Prime Minister David Cameron told the British public that ‘we are in danger of going back to the Dark Ages of medicine.’ He was introducing the UK government commissioned Review on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR), which projected that there would be 10 million deaths per year due to AMR by 2050. While Cameron did not invent the ‘Dark …

Lectures

May 21, 2020

The Significance of Covid-19 as Crisis

By Marijn Nieuwenhuis

This article is part of the series: Dispatches from the pandemic

What is the significance of COVID-19? The honest response is that I don’t know which, however, does not prevent me from thinking that it has something crucial to tell us. COVID-19 is both real and global and yet it manifests itself allegorically and unevenly. Some get sick, others die, and a growing few turn off and deny. COVID-19 is a …

Lectures

April 19, 2020

The politics of Amphibiosis: the war against viruses will not take place

By Charlotte Brives

This article is part of the series: Dispatches from the pandemic

“We are at war.” This was Emmanuel Macron’s chosen refrain when he addressed the French nation about the current COVID-19 pandemic. He is certainly not the first to present human/pathogenic microbe relations in this way. Indeed, the history of immunology and epidemiology is littered with the vocabulary of war. But this presidential rhetoric reveals a certain communication strategy based on …

Features

November 30, 2015

Authors and Impresarios: How to Move Across Disciplines

By Hyo Yoon Kang

This article is part of the series: The collaborative turn: interdisciplinarity across the human sciences

A conversation with Mario Biagioli.

Mario Biagioli is a Distinguished Professor of Law and Science and Technology Studies, as well as Director of the Center for Science and Innovation Studies at the University of California, Davis. Prior to his time at Davis, he was a Professor of History of Science at Harvard University, specialising in intellectual property in science. His …

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Writing Life No. 19: An Interview with Jason Pine

Fit for Purpose? Prime Minister Johnson’s Two Bodies and the UK Better Health Strategy

The ‘Dark Ages’ – a misused metaphor for a post-antibiotic future

The Significance of Covid-19 as Crisis

The politics of Amphibiosis: the war against viruses will not take place

Authors and Impresarios: How to Move Across Disciplines