Stephen Harrison
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3603457 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Stephen Harrison |
| NOMBRES | Stephen |
| APELLIDO | Harrison |
| FIRMA | HARRISON S |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5951-3300 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 111 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 610 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 94 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 18 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1951 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 14 |
Rupert Brooke, Charles Sorley, Isaac Rosenberg, and Wilfred Owen
This book examines how, when, and why four First World War poets engaged with Greek and Roman antiquity. Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, and Charles Sorley all died in the war. They came from diverse social, educational, and cultural backgrounds but for each of the writers engagement with classical material was decisive in shaping their war poetry. The world views and cultural hinterlands of Brooke and Sorley were framed by the Gree…
Horace on Sacred Space
This chapter looks at potential allusions in Horace’s Odes to the religious buildings in Rome known to have been constructed or substantially repaired by Augustus. These major construction projects in Rome in the Augustan period are naturally a topic of interest to contemporary poets; in the case of the Odes , it can be argued that there are many points of contact between poetic and architectural artefacts, and even that the Roman literary achiev…
Style in Latin Poetry
Lírica e tragédia em Horácio, Odes , 2.1
Horace Odes 2.1, addressed to the politician, historian and tragic poet C. Asinius Pollio, has in recent years been much analysed. Most often, critics have followed the steer of Nisbet and Hubbard’s commentary (1978) in looking for traces of Pollio’s lost Histories and of Pollio’s own historical role (e.g. Henderson, 1998; Woodman, 2012), and it is indeed clear that the poem contains a number of allusions to historiographical topics and stilemes …
Tony Harrison and Rome
Tony Harrison’s school study of Latin was a central part of the Leeds Grammar School education that created tensions with his working-class roots. At the University of Leeds, he began a doctoral thesis on translations of Virgil. This chapter traces Tony Harrison’s engagement with Roman literature and culture in, for example, the translations of Catullus and Martial and his many allusions to other Roman poems and plays. The chapter demonstrates th…
The Kings of Aileach and the Vikings, AD 800–1060, by Darren McGettigan
Journal Article The Kings of Aileach and the Vikings, AD 800–1060, by Darren McGettigan Get access The Kings of Aileach and the Vikings, AD 800–1060, by Darren McGettigan (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2020; pp. 204. £24.95). Stephen H Harrison Stephen H Harrison University of Glasgow, UK [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 137, Issue 585, April…
Greek and Latin Love
Classical Scholarship and Its History
It is unusual for a single scholar practically to reorient an entire sub-field of study, but this is what Chris Stray has done for the history of UK classical scholarship. His remarkable combination of interests in the sociology of scholars and scholarship, in the history of the book and of publishing, and (especially) in the detailed intellectual contextualisation of classical scholarship as a form of classical reception has fundamentally change…
An Anthology of British Neo-Latin Literature
This volume offers a wide range of sample passages from literature written in Latin in the British Isles during the period from about 1500 to 1800. It includes a general introduction to and bibliography to the Latin literature of these centuries, as well as Latin texts with English translations, introductions and notes. These texts present a rich panorama of the different literary genres, styles and themes flourishing at the time, illustrating th…
Alexandra Sanmark, Viking Law and Order
Viking Law and Order: Places of Ritual and Assembly in the Medieval North By Alexandra Sanmark. ISBN 9781474402293. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017. RRP £75.00
David Griffiths, Jane Harrison and Michael Athanson, Beside the Ocean
Beside the Ocean: Coastal Landscapes at the Bay of Skaill, Marwick and Birsay Bay, Orkney: Archaeological Research 2003–2018 By David Griffiths, Jane Harrison and Michael Athanson. Oxford, Oxbow Books, 2019. Hardback. xxviii, 346 pp. ISBN 9781789250961. £45.00. (Digital Edition ISBN 9781789250978)
Re-Wiring The Ancient Novel, 2 Volume set
Shades of Sappho in Vergil
This chapter argues, for the first time in classical scholarship, for Sapphic allusions in all three works in Vergil’s output. The argument has important consequences for our understanding of how different ancient genres relate to each other when allusions to epithalamia are found in pastoral and lyric allusions are found in epic, as well as of how Greek literature relates to that which is Roman. Close readings of passages from Vergil’s Eclogues …
Rediscovering E. R. Dodds
Rediscovering E. R. Dodds offers the first comprehensive assessment of a remarkable classical scholar, who was also a poet with extensive links to twentieth-century English and Irish literary culture, the friend of Auden and MacNeice. Dodds was born in Northern Ireland, but made his name as Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford from 1936 to 1960, succeeding Gilbert Murray. Before this he taught at Reading and Birmingham, was active in the Associati…
Artefact ekphrasis and narrative in epic poetry from Homer to Silius
This contribution will look at the narrative function of artefact ekphrasis - here interpreted as the verbal description of objects - in Greek and Roman epic poetry and epyllia such as Moschus' Europa and Catullus' Carmen 64. Its primary focus will be on the way in which an ekphrasis can work as a prolepsis in narratological terms, a device by which a future portion of the story is recounted out of temporal sequence in the narrative. The use of e…
Roman Receptions of Sappho
Sappho, a towering figure in Western culture, is an exemplary case in the history of classical receptions. There are three prominent reasons for this. Firstly, Sappho is associated with some of the earliest poetry in the classical tradition, which makes her reception history one of the longest we know of. Furthermore, Sappho’s poetry promotes ideologically challenging concepts such as female authority and homoeroticism, which have prompted very c…
Seamus Heaney and the Classics
The death of Seamus Heaney in 2013 is an appropriate point to honour the Irish poet’s contribution to classical reception in modern poetry in English; this is the first volume dedicated to that subject, though occasional essays have appeared in the past. The volume comprises literary criticism by scholars of classical reception and literature in English, and has some input from critics who are also poets and from theatre practitioners on their in…
Hidden Voices
Another often-muted voice, here in the terrain of sexual attraction, is the topic of this chapter, which sets out to bring out the hidden voices of homoerotic in desire in Horace’s Odes. Expressions of male-male desire in these poems have traditionally been played down by their interpreters, often treated as ‘merely’ a Hellenistic literary topos or a vehicle for the poet-speaker’s nostalgia. Taking its cue from re-assessments of homoerotic materi…
Epic Performances from the Middle Ages into the Twenty-First Century
Greek and Roman epic poetry has always provided creative artists with a rich storehouse of themes: this volume is the first systematic attempt to chart its afterlife across a range of diverse performance traditions, with analysis ranging widely across time, place, genre, and academic and creative disciplines.
Dynamics of Ancient Prose
Complex Inferiorities
Force, Frequency and Focalisation
Lucretius and Memmius
These lines (28-53) from Lucretius' first proem appeal to Venus to make the poem attractive and thus bring peace to the troubled state of Rome through its and her capacity to calm the spirit of war, here symbolised by her erotic domination of her lover Mavors (Mars). The poet calls on Venus to speak words via the poem which will bring peace to the Romans, words evidently parallel with the Epicurean message of tranquillity in the DRN itself . At t…
Changing spaces, changing behaviours
Alexander’s conquest of Persia transformed the way he ruled, with aspects of Achaemenid monarchy becoming prominent. In general, historians have focused on instances of deliberate engagement with Achaemenid practices (e. g. dress, proskynesis , etc.), leading to the impression that this change resulted from conscious imitation. Here, I nuance this view, arguing that the gradual adoption of aspects of Achaemenid royal space played a pivotal role i…
Life, Love and Death in Latin Poetry
Inspired by Theodore Papanghelis’ Propertius: A Hellenistic Poet on Love and Death (1987), this collective volume brings together seventeen contributions, written by an international team of experts, exploring the different ways in which Latin authors and some of their modern readers created narratives of life, love and death. Taken together the papers offer stimulating readings of Latin texts over many centuries, examined in a variety of genres …
Medical Autonomy and the UK State 1975 to 2025
Medical autonomy in the United Kingdom has declined over the last twenty-five years, whether considered at the micro level (such as control over treatment and work patterns), the meso level (in terms of corporatist relations with the state) or the macro level (in terms of the `biomedical model'). After a period in the early 1990s when the National Health Service displayed a mix of Fordist and post-Fordist controls, the emphasis has swung sharply …
The Politics of Evidence-Based Medicine in the United Kingdom
English Evidence-based medicine, the doctrine that professional clinical practice should be based on sound research evidence about the effectiveness of the procedures used, is now official policy for the National Health Service. Despite its obvious common-sense and political appeal, the policy seems to be based on a number of questionable assumptions about implementation, political popularity and scientific consensus, yet accords in general terms…
Professional legitimacy claims in the multidisciplinary workplace
The pattern of occupations engaged in the care of patients has grown steadily more complex, and is characterised by the creation of new occupations, additional specialisation within existing occupations, and extensions to existing occupational roles. This paper presents empirical data from a study of professionals working with heart failure patients in the English National Health Service, focusing on the discourses employed by nurses and by three…
New Labour, Modernisation and the Medical Labour Process
The label 'modernisation', originally coined to signify reform within the Labour Party, has since 1997 increasingly been used as a descriptor of various facets of public policy. This paper addresses three questions, all in the context of health policy. What (if anything) is the impact of the notion of modernisation on NHS medical labour process, what is its substantive content, and how might we explain its rise to prominence? On the first questio…
Which Champions, Which People? Public and User Involvement in Health Care as a Technology of Legitimation
This paper concerns two practices, public consultation and user involvement, whose adoption has been urged upon the UK National Health Service in recent years. Public consultation is a local attempt to seek the views of a broad constituency of persons. User involvement is a local attempt to include organized groups of service users in the planning, and occasionally the management, of such services. The paper has four objectives. First, it locates…
Autonomy and bureaucratic accountability in primary care
Clinical autonomy has long been seen as conceptually central to the analysis of the occupational status of the medical profession, though the implications for this of recent developments in health care managerialism have been disputed by theorists. In particular, the question has arisen as to whether 'restratification', that is, the active involvement of physicians in this process, should be construed as medical élites exerting control over the r…
Trust and moral motivation
English The government's modernisation programme for health and social care has introduced institutional arrangements that are characteristic of ‘late modernity’. These support heightened surveillance of organisational performance and professional practice, increased bureaucratisation of operational arrangements, instrumental decision making about service provision and a drive to centralise consumer empowerment. Such developments are designed to …
Biomedicine, holism and general medical practice
In 2004 a new contract was introduced for General Practitioners in the UK, which introduced a significant element of ‘pay‐for‐performance’, including both clinical and organisational targets. The introduction of this contract has caused interest across the world, particularly amongst those responsible for commissioning primary care services. It can be argued that the clinical targets in the contract (known as the Quality and Outcomes Framework, Q…
Designing Health Service Organization in the UK, 1968 to 1998
Four sets of reforms of the National Health Service are employed to illustrate the changing character of policy making in this sector over a thirty year period, from the production of a carefully developed technocratic blueprint for its organization to the promulgation of a series of bright ideas accompanied by incentives for local actors to develop them into concrete organizational arrangements consonant with these ideas. We term this latter app…
More than just trees
The Primal Voyage and the Ocean of Epos
This paper looks at some key examples of the symbolic use of the sea and of sea-voyaging as images for epic poetry, for original poetic enterprise and for the progress of the plot within a poem. Beginning from the emblematic use of this symbolism in Hellenistic poetics, it traces the treatment in Catullus 64 of the journey of the Argo as the primal voyage of both human culture and Greco-Roman literature, suggests some further allusions to voyage-…
Rules, safety and the narrativisation of identity
Patient safety has become a health policy priority around the world. Acknowledging that 'to err is human' has led to attempts to design systems and rules that limit the capacity for individual discretion and thereby reduce clinical errors. In addition, great emphasis is being placed on the need to eradicate cultures of blame, which are assumed to discourage clinicians from reporting errors, and to establish a 'safety culture', which encourages op…
Policy Emergence and Policy Convergence
This article examines how the rather similar approaches to the management of medical care (which here we term ‘scientific-bureaucratic medicine’) emerged within the public-policy agendas of both the United Kingdom and United States during the 1990s. In particular, we address the theoretical puzzle of how explanations of policy emergence in single countries can be reconciled with policy convergence between two countries
Co-Optation, Commodification and the Medical Model
The micropolitics of clinical guidelines
English This article analyses data from a participant observation study of decision making in local National Health Service institutions, focusing on the construction of local clinical guidelines. We found that guideline construction departed significantly from the ‘bureaucratic-scientific’ model. Although clinical guidelines are often seen as constraining the practice of medicine, our study suggests that there is nothing intrinsically corrosive …
Rethinking collegiality
Performance Regimes in Health Care
The Netherlands and England are near neighbours whose health care systems have much in common and whose health policy communities have also usually been well aware of what is going on in the other country. Nevertheless, for the two decades from 1982, England adopted and repeatedly redeveloped performance indicator (PI) systems in the health care field while the Netherlands virtually shunned them. A broad institutional explanation for this diverge…
Local histories and local sensemaking
Central policies that are only loosely specified might be expected to result in local variations in interpretation and implementation, and practice-based commissioning in the English National Health Service (NHS) is no exception. We show how local ‘sensemaking’ in relation to this policy has been influenced by local histories and by conceptual schemata derived from earlier reorganisations of the NHS. Changes to organisational formalities do not n…
Commissioning in the English National Health Service
The English NHS is currently organised around a split between the 'commissioning' and the 'providing' of health care. There has been considerable critical comment about commissioning, focusing upon perceived inadequacies of the regulatory structure and a perceived lack of competence of the managers concerned. In this paper, we use empirical data from two detailed studies of commissioning to propose a third explanation of the difficulties that hav…
The Purchaser/Provider Split in English Health Care
An important feature of the post-Working for Patients National Health Service is the introduction of quasi-markets in health care, to be created by separating the ‘purchaser’ and ‘provider’ functions formerly conflated in the role of District Health Authorities. This paper presents data from a study of the first few months of operation of the new system, focusing upon the role of purchasing authorities in rationing health care and in legitimising…
Classics in the Modern World
This book investigates the notion of a ‘democratic turn’, a perspective applied to the ways in which Greek and Roman ideas, texts, and images have been absorbed, reworked, and communicated in the wider world in the modern period and have attracted the interest of recent research. The questions raised by the concept are historical and philosophical as well as artistic and political and they have been intensified (but not invented) by current schol…
At the Cutting Edge? Modernization and Nostalgia in a Hospital Operating Theatre Department
Attempts by government to 'modernize' the British National Health Service involve constructing previous working practices and forms of organization as dys-functional, whilst at the same time selectively drawing on nostalgic images of the NHS in an attempt to win public support for and employee commitment to modernization. The use of nostalgic and nostophobic discourses by government can be interpreted as an attempt not merely to adjust working pa…
General Management in the NHS
The Griffiths report of 1983 resulted in radical changes (to which the label ‘general management’ has been applied) to the formalities of organization and management in the national health service. We report the findings of a major study (involving more than 300 interviews) of the impact of these changes up to 1988. Although general management has been widely accepted in the service, and seems to have resulted in some improvements to management p…
Joining it up? Health and Wellbeing Boards in English Local Governance
Statutory responsibility for health care and social care has long been separated between National Health Service (NHS) bodies and local government authorities. Repeated policy attempts to promote service integration through collaboration between such authorities have achieved little. The latest of such policy interventions are the Health and Wellbeing Boards (HWBs) established by the 2012 Health and Social Care Act (HSCA) alongside a range of oth…
Partnerships, Power and the “New” Politics of Community Participation in British Health Care
Multi–sectoral approaches to health improvement in its broadest sense have entailed an emphasis by the British government upon partnership working in and around community involvement in planning processes. New service planning and delivery organizations in the health service—primary care groups and primary care trusts—thus have to ensure that public and patient involvement strategies reflect a coordinated, if not integrated, multi–sectoral approa…
A psychophysical method employing a modification of the Müller-Urban weights
Magic in the Spanish Golden Age
Many authorities attest to a belief in magic and the continuing practice of witchcraft in the sixteenth century^and, even among enlightened persons, to a lingering belief in astrology. Jean Seznec attributes this belief to the authority of the literature and philosophy of late anti- quity,^and Cassirer states that "The basic magical-astrological view of causality is strongly interwoven in the whole Renaissance philosophy of nature, from its incep…
B. Reviews
CANADA AND THE ARAB WORLD. Edited by Tareq Y. Ismael. Edmonton, Alberta, University of Alberta Press, 1985. 206pp. £15.75. TOWARDS AN INTEREST FREE ISLAMIC ECONOMIC SYSTEM. By Waqar Masood Khan. Leicester, The Islamic Foundation, 1985. 126pp. THE UNMAKING OF PALESTINE. By W.F.Abboushi. Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, Menas Press, 1985. xi, 250 pp., 5 maps. $21.50. THE PALESTINE LIBERATION ORGANISATION: PEOPLE, POWER AND POLITICS. By Helena Cobban. Londo…
Labour relations in health services management
Vergil on Kingship
At Aeneid 1.148–56 Neptune's stilling of the storm roused against Aeneas and the Trojans by Juno is compared with the calming of a mob by a great statesman: ac ueluti magno in populo cum saepe coorta est seditio saeuitque animis ignobile uulgus iamque faces et saxa uolant, furor arma ministrat. tum pietate grauem ac meritis si forte uirum quem conspexere silent arrectisque auribus astant; ille regit dictis animos et pectora mulcet: sic cunctus pe…
The Closed Shop and the National Health Service
During the second half of the 1970s, the practice of the closed shop became widespread in some parts of the British public sector, but was resisted in others. This paper examines the issue in relation to the National Health Service, where trade unionists made frequent demands for the closed shop and where many managers were apparently not unwilling to concede it. Yet very few closed shops actually resulted. The paper examines the origin and patte…
No Hiding Place
It has never been easy to conduct research into currently sensitive policy issues, but there is now accumulating evidence to indicate that various forms of resistence to scholarly investigation are on the increase. Such a climate handicaps all social policy research, but may have the greatest impact on ethnographic projects. Yet, it is argued, ethnography is increasingly widely recognised among academics as having a particularly valuable contribu…
General Management in the NHS
The Griffiths report of 1983 resulted in radical changes (to which the label ‘general management’ has been applied) to the formalities of organization and management in the national health service. We report the findings of a major study (involving more than 300 interviews) of the impact of these changes up to 1988. Although general management has been widely accepted in the service, and seems to have resulted in some improvements to management p…
The Purchaser/Provider Split in English Health Care
An important feature of the post-Working for Patients National Health Service is the introduction of quasi-markets in health care, to be created by separating the ‘purchaser’ and ‘provider’ functions formerly conflated in the role of District Health Authorities. This paper presents data from a study of the first few months of operation of the new system, focusing upon the role of purchasing authorities in rationing health care and in legitimising…
Interleukin-2
This paper examines a recent rationing crisis in the UK National Health Service (NHS) in which a patient was denied treatment for a life threatening illness on the basis of cost. Rationing is inevitable in health care, as resources which can be allocated to health are finite and demand is essentially infinite. The new managerial relationships which constitute the purchaser/provider split contribute to rationing becom ing more explicit. The NHS is…
Poetry, Philosophy, and Letter-Writing in Horace, Epistles I
Two long-running issues in the criticism of Horace’s first book of Epistles now appear to be in a steady state: that of whether these twenty hexameter poems are in any sense ‘real’ letters, and that of whether Horace’s professions of philosophical eclecticism in the programmatic Epistles 1. 1 (13–19) are borne out by the collection. On the first issue, most would now agree with a recent monograph that ‘while the possibility remains that some of t…
NHS organisation
(1995). NHS organisation: Reassembling the jigsaw. Critical Public Health: Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 5-11
Praise and Damnation
User involvement’ is a contemporary policy initiative in the UK National Health Service which requires the managers of the service to pay greater attention to the wishes of individual patients/clients and their carers, but also to the representatives of users and the general public. This paper focuses on the responses of health and social care managers to user groups: on the the employment of groups outside the policy/managerial hierarchy as cont…
Which Champions, Which People? Public and User Involvement in Health Care as a Technology of Legitimation
This paper concerns two practices, public consultation and user involvement, whose adoption has been urged upon the UK National Health Service in recent years. Public consultation is a local attempt to seek the views of a broad constituency of persons. User involvement is a local attempt to include organized groups of service users in the planning, and occasionally the management, of such services. The paper has four objectives. First, it locates…
Rationality and Rhetoric
Between 1982 and 1992 Roy Griffiths, then Managing Director of the Sainsbury supermarket chain, wrote two reports which led to significant changes in the organization and management of health and social services in the UK. This article provides a detailed account of the policy process which led to the latter of these reports, which dealt with community care, in order to assesses Griffiths’ personal contribution to policy making
The Politics of Evidence-Based Medicine in the United Kingdom
English Evidence-based medicine, the doctrine that professional clinical practice should be based on sound research evidence about the effectiveness of the procedures used, is now official policy for the National Health Service. Despite its obvious common-sense and political appeal, the policy seems to be based on a number of questionable assumptions about implementation, political popularity and scientific consensus, yet accords in general terms…
Designing Health Service Organization in the UK, 1968 to 1998
Four sets of reforms of the National Health Service are employed to illustrate the changing character of policy making in this sector over a thirty year period, from the production of a carefully developed technocratic blueprint for its organization to the promulgation of a series of bright ideas accompanied by incentives for local actors to develop them into concrete organizational arrangements consonant with these ideas. We term this latter app…
An Exploration of Collaborative Government
Clinical governance and primary care in the English National Health Service
New Labour's concept of 'clinical governance' is an essentially bureaucratic strategy in that it places great emphasis on controlling the behaviour of NHS clinical professionals via a web of rules, including clinical guidelines and National Service Frameworks, supported by new external agencies such as NICE and CHI. In the context of primary medical care, however the classic organizational means for implementing such rules, the bureaucratic hiera…
Scientific-bureaucratic Medicine and Uk Health Policy1
One prominent method for controlling health costs is to find measures for the management of demand. Various options exist for this; and many of them have been tried during the fifty years of the UK's National Health Service. Current policy now focuses on what may be called "scientific-bureaucratic medicine." This policy is based on the assumptions that valid medical knowledge is derived from accumulated research evidence and that such knowledge s…
Medical Autonomy and the UK State 1975 to 2025
Medical autonomy in the United Kingdom has declined over the last twenty-five years, whether considered at the micro level (such as control over treatment and work patterns), the meso level (in terms of corporatist relations with the state) or the macro level (in terms of the `biomedical model'). After a period in the early 1990s when the National Health Service displayed a mix of Fordist and post-Fordist controls, the emphasis has swung sharply …
Culture, tourism and local community — the heritage identity of the Isle of Man
The Cambridge Companion to Ovid
Ovid was one of the greatest writers of classical antiquity, and arguably the single most influential ancient poet for post-classical literature and culture. In this Cambridge Companion, chapters by leading authorities from Europe and North America discuss the backgrounds and contexts for Ovid, the individual works, and his influence on later literature and art. Coverage of essential information is combined with exciting critical approaches. This…
Citizens' participation in primary healthcare planning
The British National Health Service has been the focus of sustained political rhetoric in favour of greater public and patient involvement in decision making. The creation of Primary Care Groups--organizations based on local groups of general practitioners--has thus been accompanied by a requirement that they involve users and the public. This article reports on a study of Primary Care Groups (n = 167) to address two questions. First, how have th…
Policy Emergence and Policy Convergence
This article examines how the rather similar approaches to the management of medical care (which here we term ‘scientific-bureaucratic medicine’) emerged within the public-policy agendas of both the United Kingdom and United States during the 1990s. In particular, we address the theoretical puzzle of how explanations of policy emergence in single countries can be reconciled with policy convergence between two countries
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