Kevin White
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3591192 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Kevin White |
| NOMBRES | Kevin |
| APELLIDO | White |
| FIRMA | WHITE K |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Reading |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4328-8185 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 52 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 184 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 48 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 4 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1982 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Including the rainbow
People with intellectual and developmental disabilities have the right to access appropriate and comprehensive sexuality and relationship education (SRE), but face a long history of exclusion from SRE in the USA due to myths about the sexuality of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, biases against people with disabilities, and segregationist educational policies. Additionally, people with autism/autistic people are more likel…
Living apart after adoption or guardianship
8% of youth in the sample had experienced living apart (LA) from their adoptive or guardianship families. • Factors that decreased the likelihood of LA included: extracurricular involvement in school-related activities, biological family support, and appropriate, adoption or guardianship specific supports and services. • Familial relationships endured within families that experienced LA. For children who are not reunified with their biological fa…
Mapping genomic loci implicates genes and synaptic biology in schizophrenia
Hispanic Philosophy in the Age of Discovery
This volume presents 15 studies occasioned by the 500th anniversary of the European discovery of America. It covers both the initial encounters between the Europeans and native Americans and the golden age of Hispanic philosophy that followed the discovery - specifically between 1500 and 1650.
Body, Sociology of
The publication in 1984 of Bryan S. Turner's The Body and Society brought the body into mainstream sociology, a development consolidated just over a decade later with the founding of the journal Body and Society in 1995. This entry outlines the early history of the body in classical sociology and developments in Marxist, Marxist‐feminist, Weberian, and Durkheimian traditions. This is followed by contemporary developments in the sociology of Pierr…
The social construction of mental illness
This chapter outlines the origins of the social constructionist approach to mental illness from the 1960s onwards. It shows that mental illness is socially constructed in the sense of being the successful labelling of someone, or some condition, as mentally ill. The social construction of mental illness can be demonstrated in the institutional attempts by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) to consolidate a claim to be a rigorous part of t…
Medical Model of Illness
The medical model, pivotal to biomedical practice, underpins the way in which sickness and disease is understood within wider society. That is, most of us usually believe that being sick is a straightforward physical event. Dominant since the rise of early germ theory (Pasteur, Koch), the medical model sees illness as a consequence of a germ (virus, parasite, or bacteria) entering the body and causing it to malfunction. The solution to the proble…
Patterns of Hominin Occupation and Cultural Diversity Across the Gebel Akhdar of Northern Libya Over the Last ~200 kyr
Labour casualization and the psychosocial health of workers in Australia
This article presents the results of a qualitative study of 72 workers in regional Victoria, Australia. Against the background of the growing casualization of the workforce it demonstrates the impact on the health and well-being of these workers, focusing on the intersection between psychosocial working conditions and health. In particular it focuses on the detrimental impact on workers' sense of self-efficacy and self-esteem. It emphasizes how t…
Aquinas and the Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is the text which had the single greatest influence on Aquinas's ethical writings, and the historical and philosophical value of Aquinas's appropriation of this text provokes lively debate. In this volume of new essays, thirteen distinguished scholars explore how Aquinas receives, expands on and transforms Aristotle's insights about the attainability of happiness, the scope of moral virtue, the foundation of moralit…
Recording speech articulation in dialogue
Health, freedom and work in rural Victoria
This paper presents the findings of a qualitative study of the impact of casualised and independent contractor work place arrangements on the psycho-social health of 72 workers in regional Victoria. It contributes to our understanding of the crisis in rural Australia in its use of qualitative methods focusing on the impact of work on health and well-being. There is some evidence in the literature that casualised work arrangement enhance the healt…
DMP Xv
This paper reports the results of fieldwork conducted in the 2010 and 2011 DMP field seasons and of analysis of samples collected during these and previous years. Research has involved 1) studying palaeolake sediment outcrops, 2) using ground penetrating radar (GPR) to determine their extent under the Dahān Ubārī, and 3) coring palaeolakes in order to determine their palaeoenvironmental records. Research on these samples is continuing but some in…
Geoarchaeological patterns in the pre-desert and desert ecozones of northern Cyrenaica
Geoarchaeological surveys were conducted in northern Cyrenaica in 2009 as part of the TRANS-NAP project. A major objective of the project is to understand the relationship between regional environmental changes and human occupation patterns in northern Cyrenaica over approximately the past 200,000 years. This paper focuses on the results of surveys of the pre-desert and desert ecological zones in the south of the project's study region. The type,…
DMP Xiii
Reconnaissance survey in the Murzuq area, some 150 km south-east of Jarma, was carried out as part of the 2011 field programme of the Desert Migrations Project, with separate funding from the Leverhulme Trust for this element of work entitled the ‘Peopling the Desert Project’. This survey was designed to provide field verification of details of settlement systems identified and mapped from high-resolution satellite images in an area of c . 600 km…
The avian influenza pandemic
This paper examines the construction of avian influenza in Australian media and federal government policy, with a focus placed on discourses of contagion, preparedness and risk. The threat of an infectious disease outbreak, such as avian influenza, on social life is surrounded by a range of collective narratives which attempt to make it explicable. These narratives socially define the disease and provide explanations for its existence. The paper …
The privatisation of Medicare and the National Health Service, and the global marketisation of healthcare systems
Over recent decades, the healthcare sectors of many countries, both developed and developing, have been fundamentally restructured by two events: the re-direction of government policy toward the privatisation of publicly-funded institutions, and a new interest in strategic investment from the corporate sector in health services and products. Some might regard this radical change as bringing forth the possibility of greater effi ciency and increas…
Medicine, Religion, and the Body
Contributers include: Peter Arnds, Ruth Barcan,Christopher E. Forth, Peter Friedlander, Philomena Horsley, William Hoverd, Jay Johnston, Roxanne Marcotte, Brain McCoy, Roy O'Neill, Jeremy Shearmur, Therese Taylor,and Bryan S. Turner.
Medicine, religion, and the body
The Cyrenaican Prehistory Project 2010
The paper reports on the fourth (2010) season of fieldwork of the Cyrenaican Prehistory Project, and on further results of analyses of artefacts and organic materials collected in the 2009 season. Ground-based LiDar has provided both an accurate 3D scan of the Haua Fteah cave and information on the cave's morphometry or origins. The excavations in the cave focussed on Middle Palaeolithic or Middle Stone Age ‘Pre-Aurignacian’ layers below the base…
Framing disease
Since 2003, avian influenza has recently spread around the world sparking fears of a potential pandemic. As a result of this, a range of explanations and expectations surrounding the phenomenon were generated. Such social representations of disease depict the issue under discussion and frame reactions to the event. This paper explores the social representations surrounding avian influenza in Australia. Methodologically, a textual analysis of medi…
DMP Viii
The January 2009 fieldwork season conducted geomorphological and palaeoenviromental surveys in as yet unexplored parts of the Lake Megafazzan Basin, as well as continuing research in the Wadi al-Hayat and Ubari Sand Sea. Lake Megafazzan sediments were investigated at two sites on the eastern margin of the basin. At the first site, east of Tamessah, 24 m of stratigraphy was investigated and found to consist of a lacustrine carbonate unit at the ba…
The Cyrenaican Prehistory Project 2009
The paper reports on the third (2009) season of fieldwork of the Cyrenaican Prehistory Project, and on further results from the analysis of materials collected in the previous (2007 and 2008) fieldwork. Sediments in a 14 m-deep core drilled beside the McBurney trench provide an invaluable overview of the overall stratigraphic sequence, including at depths reached by the 1950s Deep Sounding but not yet investigated by the present project. Sampling…
Phytoliths as indicators of grassland dynamics during the Holocene from lake sediments in the Ubari sand sea, Fazzan Basin, Libya
This paper presents the first study of phytoliths from the Saharan region. Phytolith analysis shows the potential of reconstructing grassland dynamics during the Holocene, refining our knowledge of palaeoecosystems in the Ubari sand sea, Libya. The lake sediments studied range in age between 3,273–9,440 cal. BP. Tree cover was very low around 3,273–3,436 cal. BP and 6,678–6,796 cal. BP, and the landscape was dominated by C4 grasslands around 6,67…
DMP Iii
The palaeoanthropological and geomorphological sub-projects of the Desert Migrations Project (DMP) focus on the Pleistocene and early Holocene environment and prehistory of Fazzan so as to assess the timing and extent of hominin and human movement across the Sahara through time. This paper reports on the findings of the 2008 field season, with a focus on the prehistoric evidence along the northern margin of the Ubari sand sea. The geomorphologica…
Desert Migrations
The Desert Migrations Project is a new interdisciplinary and multi-dimensional collaborative project between the Society for Libyan Studies and the Department of Antiquities. The geographical focus of the study is the Fazzan region of southwest Libya and in thematic terms we aim to address the theme of migration in the broadest sense, encompassing the movement of people, ideas/knowledge and material culture into and out of Fazzan, along with evid…
DMP Xiii
Reconnaissance survey in the Murzuq area, some 150 km south-east of Jarma, was carried out as part of the 2011 field programme of the Desert Migrations Project, with separate funding from the Leverhulme Trust for this element of work entitled the ‘Peopling the Desert Project’. This survey was designed to provide field verification of details of settlement systems identified and mapped from high-resolution satellite images in an area of c . 600 km…
The Cyrenaican Prehistory Project 2010
The paper reports on the fourth (2010) season of fieldwork of the Cyrenaican Prehistory Project, and on further results of analyses of artefacts and organic materials collected in the 2009 season. Ground-based LiDar has provided both an accurate 3D scan of the Haua Fteah cave and information on the cave's morphometry or origins. The excavations in the cave focussed on Middle Palaeolithic or Middle Stone Age ‘Pre-Aurignacian’ layers below the base…
Labour casualization and the psychosocial health of workers in Australia
This article presents the results of a qualitative study of 72 workers in regional Victoria, Australia. Against the background of the growing casualization of the workforce it demonstrates the impact on the health and well-being of these workers, focusing on the intersection between psychosocial working conditions and health. In particular it focuses on the detrimental impact on workers' sense of self-efficacy and self-esteem. It emphasizes how t…
The Cyrenaican Prehistory Project 2009
The paper reports on the third (2009) season of fieldwork of the Cyrenaican Prehistory Project, and on further results from the analysis of materials collected in the previous (2007 and 2008) fieldwork. Sediments in a 14 m-deep core drilled beside the McBurney trench provide an invaluable overview of the overall stratigraphic sequence, including at depths reached by the 1950s Deep Sounding but not yet investigated by the present project. Sampling…
Making Trouble
Journal Article Making Trouble: Essays on Gay History, Politics, and the University. By John D'Emilio. (New York: Routledge, 1992. xliv, 274 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-415-90509-5. Paper, $15.95, ISBN 0-415-90510-9.) Get access Kevin White Kevin White University of Sussex, Brighton, England Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 3, December 1993, Pages 1044–1045, https…
DMP Iii
The palaeoanthropological and geomorphological sub-projects of the Desert Migrations Project (DMP) focus on the Pleistocene and early Holocene environment and prehistory of Fazzan so as to assess the timing and extent of hominin and human movement across the Sahara through time. This paper reports on the findings of the 2008 field season, with a focus on the prehistoric evidence along the northern margin of the Ubari sand sea. The geomorphologica…
The avian influenza pandemic
This paper examines the construction of avian influenza in Australian media and federal government policy, with a focus placed on discourses of contagion, preparedness and risk. The threat of an infectious disease outbreak, such as avian influenza, on social life is surrounded by a range of collective narratives which attempt to make it explicable. These narratives socially define the disease and provide explanations for its existence. The paper …
The Fezzan Project 2001
The Fezzan Project completed its five-year fieldwork cycle in 2001. The geographical research team located numerous additional palaeolake sites within the Edeyen Ubari, using a combination of Remote Sensing technology and field visits. Additional samples were taken for analysis and dating from many lake edge locations, relating to both the large Pleistocene lake and to the numerous smaller Holocene lakes that have been identified by the team. The…
Life Insurance, the Medical Examination and Cultural Values
This paper is concerned with the commodification of the risk of death which occurred with the development of life insurance and with the role of the medical examination in making life insurance a viable commodity. Using British and Australian data, it shows how the medical profession and the medical examination were crucial to nineteenth century life insurance institutions in the calculation of the value of human lives. Life insurance institution…
Geoarchaeological patterns in the pre-desert and desert ecozones of northern Cyrenaica
Geoarchaeological surveys were conducted in northern Cyrenaica in 2009 as part of the TRANS-NAP project. A major objective of the project is to understand the relationship between regional environmental changes and human occupation patterns in northern Cyrenaica over approximately the past 200,000 years. This paper focuses on the results of surveys of the pre-desert and desert ecological zones in the south of the project's study region. The type,…
Positivism resurgent
The aim of evidence-based medicine (EBM) is to introduce scientific coherence into what clinical epidemiologists characterise as the unscientific practice of medicine and, in particular, variations in diagnoses, treatment and prescribing. This paper lays out the claims of EBM—its concept of scientific knowledge, its model of disease and its construction of the role of epidemiology in medicine—and analyses them in the framework of a sociology of m…
The Fezzan Project 1998
The Fezzan Project is investigating the last 10,000 years of human settlement, landscape evolution and climatic change in the Germa region in southern Libya. The second season in February–March 1998 comprised interdisciplinary research in archaeology and geography, centred around excavation and survey work carried out at the site of Old Germa. To date, three phases of mud brick buildings have been partially explored. In addition, wider geomorphol…
Geology, geomorphology, hydrology, groundwater and physical resources of the desertified Badia environment in Jordan
The privatisation of Medicare and the National Health Service, and the global marketisation of healthcare systems
Over recent decades, the healthcare sectors of many countries, both developed and developing, have been fundamentally restructured by two events: the re-direction of government policy toward the privatisation of publicly-funded institutions, and a new interest in strategic investment from the corporate sector in health services and products. Some might regard this radical change as bringing forth the possibility of greater effi ciency and increas…
Framing disease
Since 2003, avian influenza has recently spread around the world sparking fears of a potential pandemic. As a result of this, a range of explanations and expectations surrounding the phenomenon were generated. Such social representations of disease depict the issue under discussion and frame reactions to the event. This paper explores the social representations surrounding avian influenza in Australia. Methodologically, a textual analysis of medi…
Monitoring vegetation change in desert oases by remote sensing; a case study in the Libyan Fazzān
Desert oases are undergoing rapid changes in response to environmental, economic and social pressures. The Wādī al-Hayāt, in the Libyan Fazzān, illustrates these changes and exemplifies some of the processes at work. Human activity in the area is dependent on groundwater extraction. Introduction of mechanical pumps and modern irrigation technology has enabled significant expansion of irrigated area, but environmental problems have arisen as a res…
The Fezzan Project 2000
The fourth season of the Fezzan Project continued the interdisciplinary approaches of previous seasons. Geographical and environmental work focused principally in sampling sediments for scientific dating and with integrating ground observation with remote sensing data. Excavations continued at Old Germa, where the site has now reached Garamantian levels. In a separate development, the tentative identification has been made of an early mosque at t…
The Fezzan Project 1999
This report summarises the work of the third season of the Fezzan project which took place in January 1999. The main environmental findings of the project team of specialist geographers are providing confirmation of dramatic climatic and environmental change over the last 100,000 years and give more precise dates for some of these changes. The excavations in Old Germa (ancient Garama) have continued through Islamic levels, with elements of five m…
DMP Viii
The January 2009 fieldwork season conducted geomorphological and palaeoenviromental surveys in as yet unexplored parts of the Lake Megafazzan Basin, as well as continuing research in the Wadi al-Hayat and Ubari Sand Sea. Lake Megafazzan sediments were investigated at two sites on the eastern margin of the basin. At the first site, east of Tamessah, 24 m of stratigraphy was investigated and found to consist of a lacustrine carbonate unit at the ba…
La metaura d'Aristotile
Introduction to Remote Sensing
Geomorphological Analysis of Piedmont Landforms in the Tunisian Southern Atlas Using Ground Data and Satellite Imagery
THE PIEDMONT ZONE is characterized by the juxtaposition of upland and lowland and by the existence of a slope between the two (Denny, 1967). In arid areas the piedmont zone contains a variety of erosional and aggradational landforms. Erosional piedmonts, or pediments (Oberlander, 1989) are represented in south-central Tunisia by a series of nested erosion surfaces (Fig. 1A), known as glacis d'erosion (Coque, 1962: 247). Aggradational piedmonts ar…
The Meaning of Phantasia in Aristotle's De Anima, III, 3-8
Aristotle's account of phantasia in De anima, III, 3, occurs at a critical juncture of his inquiry into the nature and properties of the soul. Having just completed a long discussion of sensation (II, 5-III, 2), and wishing now to turn to a consideration of the power of thought (nous), which he regards both as distinct from and as analogous to sensation, he suggests that an explanation of phantasia is necessary at this point, since there is no th…
The ‘Consentiam’ effect
The Meaning of Phantasia in Aristotle's De Anima, III, 3-8
Aristotle's account of phantasia in De anima, III, 3, occurs at a critical juncture of his inquiry into the nature and properties of the soul. Having just completed a long discussion of sensation (II, 5-III, 2), and wishing now to turn to a consideration of the power of thought (nous), which he regards both as distinct from and as analogous to sensation, he suggests that an explanation of phantasia is necessary at this point, since there is no th…
Geomorphological Analysis of Piedmont Landforms in the Tunisian Southern Atlas Using Ground Data and Satellite Imagery
THE PIEDMONT ZONE is characterized by the juxtaposition of upland and lowland and by the existence of a slope between the two (Denny, 1967). In arid areas the piedmont zone contains a variety of erosional and aggradational landforms. Erosional piedmonts, or pediments (Oberlander, 1989) are represented in south-central Tunisia by a series of nested erosion surfaces (Fig. 1A), known as glacis d'erosion (Coque, 1962: 247). Aggradational piedmonts ar…
Making Trouble
Journal Article Making Trouble: Essays on Gay History, Politics, and the University. By John D'Emilio. (New York: Routledge, 1992. xliv, 274 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-415-90509-5. Paper, $15.95, ISBN 0-415-90510-9.) Get access Kevin White Kevin White University of Sussex, Brighton, England Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 3, December 1993, Pages 1044–1045, https…
Religion medicine and deviance ‐child abuse and the social structure
This paper provides a sociological account of allegations of child abuse and ritual abuse in a child care center. It synthesises insights from the sociology of health, deviance, and religion. Taking as its point of departure the argument that social problems are socially constructed it shows how deviance is being redevined in late capitalist societies, with the medical profesion loosing its prominence as the main agent of social control
Introduction to Remote Sensing
The First Sexual Revolution
In the early 1900s, a sexual revolution took place that was to define social relations between the sexes in America for generations. As Victorian values gradually faded, and a commercialized consumer culture emerged, the female figure of the flapper came to embody early-twentieth century femininity. Simultaneously, masculine ideals were also undergoing radical change. Who then was this New Man to accompany the New Woman? Who was the flapper's boy…
The First Sexual Revolution
Geology, geomorphology, hydrology, groundwater and physical resources of the desertified Badia environment in Jordan
The Fezzan Project 1998
The Fezzan Project is investigating the last 10,000 years of human settlement, landscape evolution and climatic change in the Germa region in southern Libya. The second season in February–March 1998 comprised interdisciplinary research in archaeology and geography, centred around excavation and survey work carried out at the site of Old Germa. To date, three phases of mud brick buildings have been partially explored. In addition, wider geomorphol…
The Fezzan Project 1999
This report summarises the work of the third season of the Fezzan project which took place in January 1999. The main environmental findings of the project team of specialist geographers are providing confirmation of dramatic climatic and environmental change over the last 100,000 years and give more precise dates for some of these changes. The excavations in Old Germa (ancient Garama) have continued through Islamic levels, with elements of five m…
Accuracy, stability and reciprocity in informal conversational networks in rural Kenya
The Fezzan Project 2000
The fourth season of the Fezzan Project continued the interdisciplinary approaches of previous seasons. Geographical and environmental work focused principally in sampling sediments for scientific dating and with integrating ground observation with remote sensing data. Excavations continued at Old Germa, where the site has now reached Garamantian levels. In a separate development, the tentative identification has been made of an early mosque at t…
Life Insurance, the Medical Examination and Cultural Values
This paper is concerned with the commodification of the risk of death which occurred with the development of life insurance and with the role of the medical examination in making life insurance a viable commodity. Using British and Australian data, it shows how the medical profession and the medical examination were crucial to nineteenth century life insurance institutions in the calculation of the value of human lives. Life insurance institution…
New and improved
La metaura d'Aristotile
La météorologie en français au Moyen Âge (XIIIe-XIVe siècles) . Joëlle Ducos
The Fezzan Project 2001
The Fezzan Project completed its five-year fieldwork cycle in 2001. The geographical research team located numerous additional palaeolake sites within the Edeyen Ubari, using a combination of Remote Sensing technology and field visits. Additional samples were taken for analysis and dating from many lake edge locations, relating to both the large Pleistocene lake and to the numerous smaller Holocene lakes that have been identified by the team. The…
From professional to sub-contractor - the swift decline of general practice
Positivism resurgent
The aim of evidence-based medicine (EBM) is to introduce scientific coherence into what clinical epidemiologists characterise as the unscientific practice of medicine and, in particular, variations in diagnoses, treatment and prescribing. This paper lays out the claims of EBM—its concept of scientific knowledge, its model of disease and its construction of the role of epidemiology in medicine—and analyses them in the framework of a sociology of m…
Monitoring vegetation change in desert oases by remote sensing; a case study in the Libyan Fazzān
Desert oases are undergoing rapid changes in response to environmental, economic and social pressures. The Wādī al-Hayāt, in the Libyan Fazzān, illustrates these changes and exemplifies some of the processes at work. Human activity in the area is dependent on groundwater extraction. Introduction of mechanical pumps and modern irrigation technology has enabled significant expansion of irrigated area, but environmental problems have arisen as a res…
Water table decline, springline desiccation and the early development of irrigated agriculture in the Wādi al-Ajāl, Libyan Fazzān
Uranium/Thorium (U/Th) and 226 Ra dating has been applied to spring deposits in order to determine the timing of the drying up of springs in the Wādī al-Ajāl, Fazzān, Libya. These dates are compared with results of archaeological surveys of irrigation structures and archaeobotanical studies of plant remains to further our understanding of the factors that controlled the introduction of irrigated agriculture, its nature and timing. Though there ar…
Reordering Medicine
Negotiating the Sacred
This cross-disciplinary exploration of the role of the sacred, blasphemy and sacrilege in a multicultural society brings together philosophers, theologians, lawyers, historians, curators, anthropologists and sociologists, as well as Christian, Jewish and Islamic and secular perspectives. In bringing together different disciplinary and cultural approaches, the book provides a
A Record of Holocene Climate Change from Lake Geochemical Analyses in Southeastern Arabia
Lacustrine sediments from southeastern Arabia reveal variations in lake level corresponding to changes in the strength and duration of Indian Ocean Monsoon (IOM) summer rainfall and winter cyclonic rainfall. The late glacial/Holocene transition of the region was characterised by the development of mega-linear dunes. These dunes became stabilised and vegetated during the early Holocene and interdunal lakes formed in response to the incursion of th…
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