Doctors, Politics and Society: Historical Essays

Doctors, Politics and Society: Historical EssaysThe great British reformer Jeremy Bentham wrote that 'the art of legislation is but the art of healing practised upon a large scale'. He added that 'It is the common endeavour of both to relieve men from the miseries of life. But the physician relieves them one by one: the legislator by millions at a time'. Bentham raised the question of the interplay of medicine with politics. It forms an important topic with powerful contemporary overtones. This

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Rather than replace the practices and idioms of the vanquished people with their own

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law professor and rabbinical student Hadar Aviram challenges the conventional assumption that incarceration is an artifact of modernity by looking back to depictions of detention and confinement in the Hebrew Bible

offering insights into the universal processes of nationalism while remaining grounded in the specifics of Jamaica’s history and culture

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The second section brings together studies of printing and readership in Central and South-East Europe in Romanian

Locatelli focuses on Beckett's fiction after the Nobel Prize of 1969

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