Peter Morris
Biographic Data
| ID | 1534445 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Morris |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Morris |
| SIGNATURE | MORRIS P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nottingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2100-4919 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 47 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 80 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 47 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Will The Voice work: Lessons from abroad and home
The Politics of Chemistry: Science and Power in Twentieth-Century Spain
Maternal Anaemia in Pregnancy: A Significantly Greater Risk Factor for Anaemia in Australian Aboriginal Children than Low Birth Weight or Prematurity
The Afterlives of Animals. A Museum Menagerie
Following the 2011 meeting of the Society for the History of Natural History at Chester Zoo, I was asked to contribute to the proceedings, outlining the way that zoos had provided specimens for many of our natural history museums. This fascinating volume was published at about the same time as my own paper went to press, providing an interesting example of convergent thought! This interesting, informative and thought-provoking book is a collectio…
Wiederaufbau: Das Deutsches Museum, 1945–1970 (review)
Reviewed by: Wiederaufbau: Das Deutsches Museum, 1945–1970 Peter J. T. Morris (bio) Wiederaufbau: Das Deutsches Museum, 1945–1970. By Otto Mayr. Munich: Deutsches Museum, 2003. Pp. 216. Due to its gradual Nazification on one hand and the impact of air raids in July and December 1944 on the other, the Deutsches Museum—the science and industry museum on the Isar River in Munich—was both physically and morally damaged by the end of the Third Reich. …
Does membership of the Royal Society affect careers? A trio in twentieth-century organic chemistry
The issue of how the Royal Society has influenced science in the twentieth century is a complex one, and it is not easy to show its impact. It is even more difficult to demonstrate the effect of being a FRS on individual careers. This paper looks at three leading organic chemists in twentieth-century Britain who were connected academically—Perkin, Robinson and Todd. Did their relatively early Fellowships of the Royal Society deliver glittering ca…
The study protocol for a randomized controlled trial of a family-centred tobacco control program about environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) to reduce respiratory illness in Indigenous infants
Interventions aimed at reducing exposure of Indigenous children to ETS have the potential for significant benefits for Indigenous communities. There is currently a dearth of evidence for the effect of tobacco control interventions to reduce children's exposure to ETS among Indigenous populations. This study will provide high-quality evidence of the efficacy of a family-centred tobacco control program on ETS to reduce respiratory illness. Outcomes…
Tribal experience with children's accounts
Does the Science Museum, London, have Perkin's Original Mauve Dye? A Critical Reassessment of a Chemical Icon
For many years the Science Museum has displayed Perkin's ‘original mauve dye’. The true historical significance of this specimen is considered in the context of the development of mauveine chemistry in the early 1860s and by comparison with similar specimens of the colorant in other museums. Because it is a crystalline sample of mauveine acetate, it cannot be earlier than 1862. This is also true of the other specimens, including one example with …
Steven Lukes on the Concept of Power
Steven Lukes has recently reissued his famous book on power, Power: A Radical View. He now admits that the concept of power that he used in his original (1974) book is flawed, but he still wants to defend the position that he advanced there. I argue that he is right to regard his concept of power as flawed, but that admitting this undermines his argument. I conclude that he can rescue his argument by realising that he is not, in fact, using a con…
"Tell Me What You Mean by "Si: Perceptions of Quality of Prenatal Care Among Immigrant Latina Women
Individual perceptions form the basis of many health research reports related to access, utilization, continuity, and quality. Many health care providers are not well equipped for designing studies or collecting data with immigrant populations. In this article, the authors examine issues in data collection on topics related to perceptions of quality of prenatal care among immigrant Latino populations. The conceptual model is Donabedian’s framewor…
Jerome A. Berson: Chemical Creativity: Ideas form the Work of Woodward, Hückel, Meerwein and Others. Weinheim/New York: Wiley‐VCH 1999. viii 195 Seiten
Chemistry and the Chemical Industry in the 19th Century: The Henrys of Manchester and Other Studies
Reviewed by: Chemistry and the Chemical Industry in the 19th Century: The Henrys of Manchester and Other Studies* Peter Morris (bio) Chemistry and the Chemical Industry in the 19th Century: The Henrys of Manchester and Other Studies. By Wilfred Vernon Farrar, edited by Richard L. Hills and W. H. Brock. Aldershot: Variorum, 1997. $94.95. In view of the price, I wonder if this volume of collected papers really serves any worthwhile purpose. Wilfred…
Blurred boundaries
Since 1990 it has been illegal in Britain to create human/animal hybrids. But what is the objection to hybrids? A proposal based on a fear of blurring conceptual boundaries is offered; this fear also seems to underlie several other of our deep‐seated taboos, such as incest and bestiality, which are often explained in other, quite inappropriate, ways. The new law shows that the boundary between the human and the animal is still thought of as cruci…
The South Korean national assembly elections 1996
Peter Morriss examines the effects of South Korea's ‘additional member’ voting system on its personality‐based political parties
Qualified Majority Voting and Power Indices: A Further Response to Johnston
If their treatment of power indices is anything to go by, reputable social scientists have a surprising tendency to lose touch with reality when using elementary mathematics. R. J. Johnston's article in this Journal is (unfortunately) a good illustration of this. The subsequent exchange between Johnston and Garrett, McLean and Machover also fails to get to the heart of the matter
Electoral politics in South Korea
Special friendships: The early career of François Mitterrand
Péan, P., Une jeunesse française: François Mitterrand 1934–1947 (Fayard, 1944), 616pp., 160F
Report on the annual conference of the Association for the Study of Modern & Contemporary France France: Violence and conflict
Three men who did not save France: The political careers of Daladier, Ramadier and Tardieu
Fonvieille‐Vojtovic, A., Paul Ramadier (1888–1961) Elu Local et Homme d'Etat (Publications de la Sorbonne, 1993), 543pp., 210F., ISBN 2 85944 226 X Monnet, F., Refaire la Republique. André Tardieu, une dérive réactionnaire (1876–1945) (Fayard, 1993), 638pp., 190F., ISBN 2 213 03050 2 Ruau, E. de, Edouard Daladier 1884–1970 (Fayard, 1993) 581pp., 180F., ISBN 2 213 02726 9
Political scandal in France
Homo politicus; the political careers of Pierre Pflimlin and Jacques Chaban‐Delmas
Chastenet, P. and P., Chaban (Seuil, 1991), 606pp., 149R, ISBN 2 02 013535 3 Pflimlin, P., Mémoires d'un Européen de la IVe à la Ve République (Fayard, 1991), 391pp., 150F., ISBN 2 21 302809 9
John W. Servos. Physical Chemistry from Ostwald to Pauling. The Making of a Science in America. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1990. Pp. 402 + xxiii
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The technology—science interaction: Walter Reppe and cyclooctatetraene chemistry
This is another paper about science and her powerful companion (technology), to use A. W. Hofmann's colourful phrase. Whereas most papers on the interaction of science and technology deal with the transfer of knowledge from academic science to industrial technology, this paper is about the contribution of an industrial researcher to academic chemistry. The boost Reppe's research gave to the study of aromaticity parallels the impact of the early s…
The South Korean national assembly elections 1992
Steven Lukes on the Concept of Power
Steven Lukes has recently reissued his famous book on power, Power: A Radical View. He now admits that the concept of power that he used in his original (1974) book is flawed, but he still wants to defend the position that he advanced there. I argue that he is right to regard his concept of power as flawed, but that admitting this undermines his argument. I conclude that he can rescue his argument by realising that he is not, in fact, using a con…
Electoral politics in South Korea
The South Korean national assembly elections 1992
Power in New Haven: A Reassessment of ‘Who Governs
One of the issues that has dominated American political science in the last twenty years has been the debate between those who assert that America is ruled by an elite, and those who believe that the pluralist model is a more accurate description. Robert Dahl, who is the most influential of the pluralists, has attacked ‘elitists’ on two fronts: negatively, he has argued that they misperceive the nature of power and are sloppy in their criteria fo…
"Tell Me What You Mean by "Si: Perceptions of Quality of Prenatal Care Among Immigrant Latina Women
Individual perceptions form the basis of many health research reports related to access, utilization, continuity, and quality. Many health care providers are not well equipped for designing studies or collecting data with immigrant populations. In this article, the authors examine issues in data collection on topics related to perceptions of quality of prenatal care among immigrant Latino populations. The conceptual model is Donabedian’s framewor…
Qualified Majority Voting and Power Indices: A Further Response to Johnston
If their treatment of power indices is anything to go by, reputable social scientists have a surprising tendency to lose touch with reality when using elementary mathematics. R. J. Johnston's article in this Journal is (unfortunately) a good illustration of this. The subsequent exchange between Johnston and Garrett, McLean and Machover also fails to get to the heart of the matter
Blurred boundaries
Since 1990 it has been illegal in Britain to create human/animal hybrids. But what is the objection to hybrids? A proposal based on a fear of blurring conceptual boundaries is offered; this fear also seems to underlie several other of our deep‐seated taboos, such as incest and bestiality, which are often explained in other, quite inappropriate, ways. The new law shows that the boundary between the human and the animal is still thought of as cruci…
Embattled Shadows: A History of Canadian Cinema, 1895-1939
A history of Canadian film-making in the years before the establishment of the National Film Board of Canada in 1939. It begins with an account of the travelling showmen who brought the movies to large and small communities across the country, and discusses the films produced in Canada before World War I. In the atmosphere of heightened nationalism during and after the war there was a determined attempt to establish a film industry. Peter Morris …
Tribal experience with children's accounts
The technology—science interaction: Walter Reppe and cyclooctatetraene chemistry
This is another paper about science and her powerful companion (technology), to use A. W. Hofmann's colourful phrase. Whereas most papers on the interaction of science and technology deal with the transfer of knowledge from academic science to industrial technology, this paper is about the contribution of an industrial researcher to academic chemistry. The boost Reppe's research gave to the study of aromaticity parallels the impact of the early s…
Science, Technology, and Reparations: Exploitation and Plunder in Postwar Germany
Manipulating Manipulation
In a recent article, Alan Ware argues the following: (1) Manipulation is important to liberals because governments and law courts are justified in overriding some person's wants , when determining his interests, only when his wants have been manipulated (pp. 175, 177). (I shall call this person ‘ B ’.) (2) Manipulation only occurs when some specified person ( A ) is both morally and causally responsible for the change in B's wants (pp. 165–6 and …
Another Contradiction in the Theory of Majoritarian Democracy
The Pluralist Case Not Proven: Hewitt on Britain
It is some fifteen years since Dahl and his associates inaugurated the ‘issue’ approach to studying power; it is therefore somewhat surprising that two recent articles by Christopher Hewitt1comprise the first attempt at applying this method to Britain. But over the past decade and a half Dahl's approach has come in for some severe criticisms; it is unfortunate that Hewitt does not update the method to meet some of these criticisms - indeed his ar…
Social Class and Social Policy. S. M. Miller , Frank Riessman
Rae and Taylor's Measure of Intensity
It has long been fashionable for political scientists to account for the stability of democratic regimes by the sorts of cleavages that occur in the society. One such theory runs that the more cleavages reinforce one another the more unstable the regime will be, whilst the more cleavages overlap the more stable it will be. Unfortunately, up till nowthe discussion has been carried on largely in intuitive terms, without a rigorous way of measuring …
Power in New Haven: A Reassessment of ‘Who Governs
One of the issues that has dominated American political science in the last twenty years has been the debate between those who assert that America is ruled by an elite, and those who believe that the pluralist model is a more accurate description. Robert Dahl, who is the most influential of the pluralists, has attacked ‘elitists’ on two fronts: negatively, he has argued that they misperceive the nature of power and are sloppy in their criteria fo…
Dictionary of Film Makers
Transcript of Discussion
John Kuiper, Jacques Ledoux, Wolfgang Klaue, A. Ruszkowski, Vladimir Petric, Bujor Ripeanu, James Kitses, Ted Perry, Margareta Akermark, Eileen Bowser, Howard Suber, Yon Barna, Peter Kubelka, Peter Morris, Thomas Cripps, , Keith Lucas, Vladimir Pogacic, Cosme Alves-Neto, Transcript of Discussion, Cinema Journal, Vol. 14, No. 2, Symposium on the Methodology of Film History (Winter, 1974-1975), pp. 47-63
The Pluralist Case Not Proven: Hewitt on Britain
It is some fifteen years since Dahl and his associates inaugurated the ‘issue’ approach to studying power; it is therefore somewhat surprising that two recent articles by Christopher Hewitt1comprise the first attempt at applying this method to Britain. But over the past decade and a half Dahl's approach has come in for some severe criticisms; it is unfortunate that Hewitt does not update the method to meet some of these criticisms - indeed his ar…
Short notices
H. J. Dyos (ed.), Urban History Yearbook 1974, 192; Urban History Yearbook 1975, 188 (Leicester University Press, Leicester, £3.00). J. R. Raveosdale, Liable to Floods: Village Landscape on the Edge of the Fens, A.D. 450–1850 (1974), xi+206 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £5.50). Joel Samaha, Law and Order in Historical Perspective. The Case of Elizabethan Essex (1974), xvi+176 (Academic Press, London and New York, £4.70). Charles Carlton…
Another Contradiction in the Theory of Majoritarian Democracy
Manipulating Manipulation
In a recent article, Alan Ware argues the following: (1) Manipulation is important to liberals because governments and law courts are justified in overriding some person's wants , when determining his interests, only when his wants have been manipulated (pp. 175, 177). (I shall call this person ‘ B ’.) (2) Manipulation only occurs when some specified person ( A ) is both morally and causally responsible for the change in B's wants (pp. 165–6 and …
Embattled Shadows: A History of Canadian Cinema, 1895-1939
A history of Canadian film-making in the years before the establishment of the National Film Board of Canada in 1939. It begins with an account of the travelling showmen who brought the movies to large and small communities across the country, and discusses the films produced in Canada before World War I. In the atmosphere of heightened nationalism during and after the war there was a determined attempt to establish a film industry. Peter Morris …
Synthetic Rubber: The Project That Had to Succeed . Vernon Herbert , Attilio Bisio
Being Discriminatory about Discrimination
The Playfair Collection: And the Teaching of Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh 1713–1858 by R. G. W. Anderson, and: Joseph Black 1728–1799: A Commemorative Symposium ed. by A. D. C. Simpson, an…
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 693 The Playfair Collection: And the Teaching of Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh 1713—1858. By R. G. W. Anderson. Edinburgh: Royal Scottish Museum, 1978. Pp. viii+175; illustrations, notes, appen dixes, bibliography, index. £4.50+ 60p handling (paper). Joseph Black 1728—1799: A Commemorative Symposium. Edited by A. D. C. Simpson. Edinburgh: Royal Scottish Museum, 1982. Pp. viii + 69; illustrations, no…
The Playfair Collection: And the Teaching of Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh 1713-1858
Die unheilige Allianz der I.G. Farben: Eine Interessengemeinschaft im Dritten Reich . Joseph Borkin Industry and Ideology: I.G. Farben in the Nazi Era . Peter Hayes
Brazil and the Struggle for Rubber: A Study in Environmental History . Warren Dean
Praxis into process’: John Grierson and the National Film Board of Canada
(1989). ‘Praxis into process’: John Grierson and the National Film Board of Canada. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television: Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 269-282
The American Synthetic Rubber Research Program
Journal Article The American Synthetic Rubber Research Program. By Peter J. T. Morris. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989. xii + 191 pp. $34.95.) Get access Stuart W. Leslie Stuart W. Leslie Johns Hopkins University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1411–1412, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078378 Published: 01 March 1991
Science, Technology, and Reparations: Exploitation and Plunder in Postwar Germany by John Gimbel
1122 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE ransacked the technical literature. His research in archival materials is more limited. The National Archives records on the subject are extensive, particularly those of the Rubber Reserve Corporation during World War II. Many readers also would have appreciated some account of the federal government’s natural rubber program between 1941 and 1946 since it has direct relevance to the synthetic rubber progra…
Science, Technology, and Reparations: Exploitation and Plunder in Postwar Germany
The American Synthetic Rubber Research Program
John W. Servos. Physical Chemistry from Ostwald to Pauling. The Making of a Science in America. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1990. Pp. 402 + xxiii
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The technology—science interaction: Walter Reppe and cyclooctatetraene chemistry
This is another paper about science and her powerful companion (technology), to use A. W. Hofmann's colourful phrase. Whereas most papers on the interaction of science and technology deal with the transfer of knowledge from academic science to industrial technology, this paper is about the contribution of an industrial researcher to academic chemistry. The boost Reppe's research gave to the study of aromaticity parallels the impact of the early s…
The South Korean national assembly elections 1992
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