Michael Worboys
Biographic Data
| ID | 1013794 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Worboys |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Worboys |
| SIGNATURE | WORBOYS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8583-7931 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 87 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Gis
Following two successful editions, the third edition of GIS: A Computing Perspective has been completely revised and updated, with extensive new content reflecting the significant progress that has been made in the realm of GIS within the last 20 years. Major new topics covered for the first time in this edition include: graph databases and graph query languages, ontology engineering and qualitative spatial reasoning, geosensor networks and GeoAI…
Cartography and Geovisualization
Medicine Is War
Reviewed by: Medicine Is War: The Martial Metaphor in Victorian Literature and Culture by Lorenzo Servitje Michael Worboys Lorenzo Servitje. Medicine Is War: The Martial Metaphor in Victorian Literature and Culture. SUNY Series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2021. xiv + 338 pp. Ill. $95.00 (978-1-4384-8167-8). In 1971 Richard Nixon announced a “War on Cancer”; fifty years later Antonio Guterre…
Imperial entomology
In this article, I explore how the twin forces of imperial and entomological power allowed Britain to shape locust research and control across Africa, the Middle East and South Asia from the 1920s to the early 1950s. Imperial power came from the size of the formal and informal empire, and alliances with other colonial powers to tackle a common threat to agriculture and trade. Entomological authority came primarily from the work of Boris Uvarov an…
Before translational medicine
Inventing Dog Breeds
Today Jack Russell Terriers (JRTs) are among the most popular dogs in Britain and are seen to have long history, dating back to the fox terriers bred by Parson Jack Russell in the early and mid-Victorian period. Yet, JRTs are the dog breed most recently recognized by the British Kennel Club, only being allowed to enter dog shows and to be registered in the Club’s stud book since 2016. This essay explores this paradox and tells the story of strugg…
Book Forum
Not only laboratory to clinic
Since the arrival of Translational Medicine (TM), as both a term and movement in the late 1990s, it has been associated almost exclusively with attempts to accelerate the "translation" of research-laboratory findings to improve efficacy and outcomes in clinical practice (Krueger et al. in Hist Philos Life Sci 41:57, 2019). This framing privileges one source of change in medicine, that from bench-to-bedside. In this article we dig into the history…
Special issue—before translational medicine
Cortisone, initially known as ‘compound E’ was the medical sensation of the late 1940s and early 1950s. As early as April 1949, only a week after Philip Hench and colleagues first described the potential of ‘compound E’ at a Mayo Clinic seminar, the New York Times reported the drug’s promise as a ‘modern miracle’ in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Given its high profile, it is unsurprising that historians of medicine have been attract…
Breeding and Breed
This chapter discusses the history of the breeding of domesticated animals and how this practice produced varieties of animals with &s;breeding&s;, and that since the late-eighteenth century have been termed &s;breeds&s;. It considers the evolution of ideas on selective breeding through the nineteenth century and end with an assessment of the impact of the ideas of Gregor Mendel and the science of genetics in the twentieth century. The chapter sh…
Phenylbutazone (Bute, PBZ, EPZ)
In this article we explore the different trajectories of this one drug, phenylbutazone, across two species, humans and horses in the period 1950-2000. The essay begins by following the introduction of the drug into human medicine in the early 1950s. It promised to be a less costly alternative to cortisone, one of the "wonder drugs" of the era, in the treatment of rheumatic conditions. Both drugs appeared to offer symptomatic relief rather than a …
The invention of the basset hound
In this article the authors explore the practices and conceptualisations of British dog breeding and the showing of pedigree dogs by the ‘the dog fancy’, focusing specifically on the story of a single breed: the basset hound. This was not simply a story of British dog fanciers appropriating a French dog breed; indeed, this was impossible because the very notion of a dog ‘breed’, defined by conformation and legitimated by pedigree, was in the proc…
Saving the lives of our dogs’
This paper examines the successful campaign in Britain to develop canine distemper vaccine between 1922 and 1933. The campaign mobilized disparate groups around the common cause of using modern science to save the nation's dogs from a deadly disease. Spearheaded by landed patricians associated with the country journal The Field , and funded by dog owners and associations, it relied on collaborations with veterinary professionals, government scien…
Joseph Lister and the performance of antiseptic surgery
This article highlights a neglected feature of Joseph Lister's work, namely how, in addition to promoting germ theories and the principles of the antiseptic system, he also devoted much time and effort to communicating the performative aspects of antisepsis and of the many other surgical innovations that he developed. Attention to ‘detail’ and striving for ‘improvement’ were crucial to Listerian practice, and he sought to convey his credo in thre…
Practice and the Science of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century
A generation ago the nineteenth century was at the heart of medical historical scholarship, as the era when modem medicine was born. Over the last decade or so things have changed: other centuries vie for center stage, and former key "turning points," like hospital medicine and laboratory medicine, are now seen in terms of continuities on longer timescales. But though chronologically reframed, the modes of medicine still appear chiefly at the lev…
Tuberculosis and the Politics of Exclusion
Epidemics and Infections in Nineteenth-Century Britain
We would like to
Mad Dogs and Englishmen
Rabies was a constant threat in Victorian Britain and gripped popular imagination, not least because its human form, hydrophobia, produced a vile death with the mind and body out of control. This book
Was there a Bacteriological Revolution in late nineteenth-century medicine
Second Opinions
authors are invited to ponder long established areas of debate; interrogate conventional theoretical and conceptual frameworks; and open up new disciplinary and multidisciplin-ary perspectives on issues which have thus far remained resistant to historical analysis. Articles should be approximately 5,500 words in length, including notes and bibliography
The Rise of Causal Concepts of Disease
Reviewed by: The Rise of Causal Concepts of Disease: Case Histories Michael Worboys K. Codell Carter . The Rise of Causal Concepts of Disease: Case Histories. The History of Medicine in Context. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2003. ix + 237 pp. $99.95 (0-7546-0678-3). Codell Carter here sets out a revisionist history of nineteenth-century medicine, in which he directly or indirectly attacks almost all received accounts and approaches. His main claim i…
"Captain of All These Men of Death"
Greta Jones. "Captain of All These Men of Death": The History of Tuberculosis in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Ireland. Vol. 62 of Clio Medica. Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine. Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi, 2001. ii + 263 pp. $51.50, €55.00 (cloth, 90-420-1041-X); $22.50, €24.00 (paperbound, 90-420-1031-2)
Unsexing Gonorrhoea
In the 1860s, surgeons regarded gonorrhoea as a disease that largely affected men, being almost sex-specific. Yet, surgeons reported that gonorrhoeal poisons were often spread to men by healthy women, implying that many females were carriers. By the first two decades of the twentieth century, gonorrhoea had been unsexed and was remade as a communicable disease, caused by the gonococcus, that affected both sexes. In fact, gynaecologists and femini…
Nature's Government
Journal Article Nature's Government: Science, Imperial Britain, and the ‘Improvement’ of the World, by Richard Drayton (New Haven/London: Yale U.P., 2000; pp. 346. £25) Get access Michael Worboys Michael Worboys Sheffield Hallam University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 116, Issue 469, November 2001, Pages 1283–1284, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/116.469.1283 Published:…
Beriberi, White Rice, and Vitamin B
Science and Imperialism
Was there a Bacteriological Revolution in late nineteenth-century medicine
The Comparative History of Sleeping Sickness in East and Central Africa, 1900-1914
A partir de travaux d'historiens, l'A. etablit une etude comparative sur l'histoire de la maladie du sommeil en Afrique Centrale et Orientale
Practice and the Science of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century
A generation ago the nineteenth century was at the heart of medical historical scholarship, as the era when modem medicine was born. Over the last decade or so things have changed: other centuries vie for center stage, and former key "turning points," like hospital medicine and laboratory medicine, are now seen in terms of continuities on longer timescales. But though chronologically reframed, the modes of medicine still appear chiefly at the lev…
The Colonial World as Mission and Mandate
The history of medicine in twentieth-century empires has been dominated by studies of "imperial tropical medicine" (ITM) and its consequences. Historians have been fascinated by the work of medical scientists and doctors in the age of high imperialism, and there are many studies of medicine as a "tool of empire." This paper reviews work that explores colonial medicine as a broader enterprise than ITM in three spheres: missionary activity, moderni…
Epidemics and Infections in Nineteenth-Century Britain
We would like to
Second Opinions
authors are invited to ponder long established areas of debate; interrogate conventional theoretical and conceptual frameworks; and open up new disciplinary and multidisciplin-ary perspectives on issues which have thus far remained resistant to historical analysis. Articles should be approximately 5,500 words in length, including notes and bibliography
Unsexing Gonorrhoea
In the 1860s, surgeons regarded gonorrhoea as a disease that largely affected men, being almost sex-specific. Yet, surgeons reported that gonorrhoeal poisons were often spread to men by healthy women, implying that many females were carriers. By the first two decades of the twentieth century, gonorrhoea had been unsexed and was remade as a communicable disease, caused by the gonococcus, that affected both sexes. In fact, gynaecologists and femini…
Phenylbutazone (Bute, PBZ, EPZ)
In this article we explore the different trajectories of this one drug, phenylbutazone, across two species, humans and horses in the period 1950-2000. The essay begins by following the introduction of the drug into human medicine in the early 1950s. It promised to be a less costly alternative to cortisone, one of the "wonder drugs" of the era, in the treatment of rheumatic conditions. Both drugs appeared to offer symptomatic relief rather than a …
Imperial entomology
In this article, I explore how the twin forces of imperial and entomological power allowed Britain to shape locust research and control across Africa, the Middle East and South Asia from the 1920s to the early 1950s. Imperial power came from the size of the formal and informal empire, and alliances with other colonial powers to tackle a common threat to agriculture and trade. Entomological authority came primarily from the work of Boris Uvarov an…
The invention of the basset hound
In this article the authors explore the practices and conceptualisations of British dog breeding and the showing of pedigree dogs by the ‘the dog fancy’, focusing specifically on the story of a single breed: the basset hound. This was not simply a story of British dog fanciers appropriating a French dog breed; indeed, this was impossible because the very notion of a dog ‘breed’, defined by conformation and legitimated by pedigree, was in the proc…
Saving the lives of our dogs’
This paper examines the successful campaign in Britain to develop canine distemper vaccine between 1922 and 1933. The campaign mobilized disparate groups around the common cause of using modern science to save the nation's dogs from a deadly disease. Spearheaded by landed patricians associated with the country journal The Field , and funded by dog owners and associations, it relied on collaborations with veterinary professionals, government scien…
The public's view of public health in mid-Victorian Britain
What did the public think about public health reform in mid-Victorian Britain? Historians have had a lot to say about the sanitary mentality and actions of the middle class, yet have been strangely silent about the ideas and behaviour of the working class, who were the great majority of the public and the group whose health was mainly in question. Perhaps there is nothing to say. The working class were commonly referred to as ‘the Great Unwashed’…
Ecology and the End of Ideology
The Teaching of Social Studies of Science and Technology in British Polytechnics
One of the major developments in post-war higher education has been the relative and absolute growth in the number of students taking subjects in science and technology. With this development has come a change in the de facto function of a science course. No longer is it wholly, or even largely, a training for research, or for a specific field of technical employment, because the majority of science and engineering graduates now enter employment …
Ecology and the End of Ideology
Scientific Colonialism
Short Notices
Journal Article Short Notices Get access Paul F. Cranefield, Science and Empire: East Coast Fever in Rhodesia and the Transvaal, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1991, Pp. xvii + 385. £45. ISBN 0-521-39253-5. MICHAEL WORBOYS MICHAEL WORBOYS Sheffield Hallam University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 6, Issue 2, August 1993, Pages 305-a–305, https://doi.org/10…
Science and Imperialism
The public's view of public health in mid-Victorian Britain
What did the public think about public health reform in mid-Victorian Britain? Historians have had a lot to say about the sanitary mentality and actions of the middle class, yet have been strangely silent about the ideas and behaviour of the working class, who were the great majority of the public and the group whose health was mainly in question. Perhaps there is nothing to say. The working class were commonly referred to as ‘the Great Unwashed’…
The Comparative History of Sleeping Sickness in East and Central Africa, 1900-1914
A partir de travaux d'historiens, l'A. etablit une etude comparative sur l'histoire de la maladie du sommeil en Afrique Centrale et Orientale
Spreading germs
Laboratory on the Nile
The name of Sir Henry Wellcome looms large in the modern history of medicine, and of late, rather than being content merely to enjoy Sir Henry's beneficence to their discipline, historians have begun to study the history of the company he founded with Silas Burroughs and to relate his other ventures. Patrick D'Arcy has produced a detailed account of one relatively little known project that Henry Wellcome supported: the establishment of research l…
Public Health and Social Justice in the Age of Chadwick
The Colonial World as Mission and Mandate
The history of medicine in twentieth-century empires has been dominated by studies of "imperial tropical medicine" (ITM) and its consequences. Historians have been fascinated by the work of medical scientists and doctors in the age of high imperialism, and there are many studies of medicine as a "tool of empire." This paper reviews work that explores colonial medicine as a broader enterprise than ITM in three spheres: missionary activity, moderni…
Nature's Government
Journal Article Nature's Government: Science, Imperial Britain, and the ‘Improvement’ of the World, by Richard Drayton (New Haven/London: Yale U.P., 2000; pp. 346. £25) Get access Michael Worboys Michael Worboys Sheffield Hallam University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 116, Issue 469, November 2001, Pages 1283–1284, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/116.469.1283 Published:…
Beriberi, White Rice, and Vitamin B
"Captain of All These Men of Death"
Greta Jones. "Captain of All These Men of Death": The History of Tuberculosis in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Ireland. Vol. 62 of Clio Medica. Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine. Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi, 2001. ii + 263 pp. $51.50, €55.00 (cloth, 90-420-1041-X); $22.50, €24.00 (paperbound, 90-420-1031-2)
Unsexing Gonorrhoea
In the 1860s, surgeons regarded gonorrhoea as a disease that largely affected men, being almost sex-specific. Yet, surgeons reported that gonorrhoeal poisons were often spread to men by healthy women, implying that many females were carriers. By the first two decades of the twentieth century, gonorrhoea had been unsexed and was remade as a communicable disease, caused by the gonococcus, that affected both sexes. In fact, gynaecologists and femini…
The Rise of Causal Concepts of Disease
Reviewed by: The Rise of Causal Concepts of Disease: Case Histories Michael Worboys K. Codell Carter . The Rise of Causal Concepts of Disease: Case Histories. The History of Medicine in Context. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2003. ix + 237 pp. $99.95 (0-7546-0678-3). Codell Carter here sets out a revisionist history of nineteenth-century medicine, in which he directly or indirectly attacks almost all received accounts and approaches. His main claim i…
Mad Dogs and Englishmen
Rabies was a constant threat in Victorian Britain and gripped popular imagination, not least because its human form, hydrophobia, produced a vile death with the mind and body out of control. This book
Was there a Bacteriological Revolution in late nineteenth-century medicine
Second Opinions
authors are invited to ponder long established areas of debate; interrogate conventional theoretical and conceptual frameworks; and open up new disciplinary and multidisciplin-ary perspectives on issues which have thus far remained resistant to historical analysis. Articles should be approximately 5,500 words in length, including notes and bibliography
Epidemics and Infections in Nineteenth-Century Britain
We would like to
Tuberculosis and the Politics of Exclusion
Practice and the Science of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century
A generation ago the nineteenth century was at the heart of medical historical scholarship, as the era when modem medicine was born. Over the last decade or so things have changed: other centuries vie for center stage, and former key "turning points," like hospital medicine and laboratory medicine, are now seen in terms of continuities on longer timescales. But though chronologically reframed, the modes of medicine still appear chiefly at the lev…
Joseph Lister and the performance of antiseptic surgery
This article highlights a neglected feature of Joseph Lister's work, namely how, in addition to promoting germ theories and the principles of the antiseptic system, he also devoted much time and effort to communicating the performative aspects of antisepsis and of the many other surgical innovations that he developed. Attention to ‘detail’ and striving for ‘improvement’ were crucial to Listerian practice, and he sought to convey his credo in thre…
Saving the lives of our dogs’
This paper examines the successful campaign in Britain to develop canine distemper vaccine between 1922 and 1933. The campaign mobilized disparate groups around the common cause of using modern science to save the nation's dogs from a deadly disease. Spearheaded by landed patricians associated with the country journal The Field , and funded by dog owners and associations, it relied on collaborations with veterinary professionals, government scien…
The invention of the basset hound
In this article the authors explore the practices and conceptualisations of British dog breeding and the showing of pedigree dogs by the ‘the dog fancy’, focusing specifically on the story of a single breed: the basset hound. This was not simply a story of British dog fanciers appropriating a French dog breed; indeed, this was impossible because the very notion of a dog ‘breed’, defined by conformation and legitimated by pedigree, was in the proc…
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