Duncan Mclean

Biographic Data

ID315118
NAMEDuncan Mclean
GIVEN NAMESDuncan
FAMILY NAMEMclean
SIGNATUREMCLEAN D
AFFILIATIONSKing's College London
ORCID0000-0001-7894-5176
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS40
TOTAL CITATIONS52
WORKS AS AUTHOR40
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1971
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX4

  • In-verse reflection

    Open AccessDuncan Mclean, David Mclean et al.ARTICLEJournal of Medical Humanities2022

    Medical educators recognize the value of reflection for medical students and the role creative writing can play in fostering this. However, direct creative writing tasks can be challenging for many students, particularly those with limited experience in the arts and humanities. An alternative strategy is to utilize an indirect approach, engaging students with structured tasks that obliquely encourage reflection. This paper reports one such approa…

  • The Business of Conflict

    Duncan McleanCHAPTEREverybody's War2021

    This chapter presents an example of how humanitarian aid adapted the realities of the Syrian war. It examines the context of besiegement that reached populations under siege through utilizing the corruption mechanisms of informal networks and smugglers. It also describes how the humanitarian actors’ adaptations to the realities of besiegement, which caused the aid system to contribute to the war economy. The chapter discusses the provision of hum…

  • HBO’s Watchmen and Generic Revision in a Genre of Adaptation

    Duncan McleanARTICLEJournal of Popular Film and…2021References: 3

    As the screen superhero genre enters the revisionist phase of its evolution, its status as a genre overwhelmingly dependent on the adaptation of preexisting material provides a challenge to established models of generic revision. The faithful adaptation of a revisionist comic does not in itself constitute a revisionist film or series. HBO’s miniseries adaptation of Watchmen serves as an example of how, through a series of adaptational strategies,…

  • Medical care in armed conflict

    Open AccessDuncan McleanARTICLEInternational Review of the Red…2019Cited by: 3References: 2

    Although the Geneva Conventions have been successively revised since 1864, norms regarding the protection of medical care have been frequently disregarded. Despite current claims of international humanitarian law in crisis, comparing historic levels of violations with contemporary incidents is quantitatively challenging. Reviewing past reactions and justifications used by perpetrators of attacks on medical care can, however, be revealing. Based o…

  • Famine on the Coast

    Open AccessDuncan Mclean, David McleanARTICLEThe English Historical Review2019Cited by: 1

    While the significance of private charity, local organisation and government policy have all been evaluated with respect to Irish famine relief, the role of the Royal Navy in distributing food and assisting ashore has been overlooked within the existing historical literature. Operating from its base at Cork and receiving provisions from Plymouth and Portsmouth, the navy battled against Atlantic storms throughout the winter of 1846–7, and for mont…

  • Michael Zeheter, Epidemics, Empire and Environments

    Duncan Mclean, David McleanARTICLESocial History of Medicine2017

    What did nineteenth-century Madras and Quebec have in common? Both were within the empire, although that might be said of many towns and cities of the world. Both had to confront cholera and other epidemics whereby the limits of medical knowledge would be sorely tested and all the problems facing public health reform laid bare. Yet this was also true of Britain and across most of Europe too. The shared identity of the two settlements rests essent…

  • New Perceptions of the Vietnam War

    Open AccessDuncan Mclean, David McleanARTICLEAustralian Journal of Politics &…2016

    New Perceptions of the Vietnam War: Essays on the War, the South Vietnamese Experience, the Diaspora and the Continuing Impact. Edited by Nathalie Huynh Chau Nguyen (Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company, 2015), pp.vi + 262. £27.69 (pb)

  • Opium and Empire

    Open AccessDuncan Mclean, David McleanARTICLEThe English Historical Review2016

    What was the connection between opium and Britain’s first war with China? That is not an easy question to answer and one that has too often been complicated further by the zeal with which academics have injected various, though usually ill-defined, notions of imperialism into the debate. Richard J. Grace struggles with the latter issue, offering, or so he claims in his foreword, a microcosm of the imperial experience. Grace looks to test Cain and…

  • DSM-IV 'Criterion A' Schizophrenia Symptoms Across Ethnically Different Populations

    Open AccessDuncan Mclean, Rangaswamy Thara et al.ARTICLECulture Medicine and Psychiatry2014Cited by: 1References: 43

  • History for policy

    Open AccessDuncan Mclean, David Mclean et al.ARTICLERural Society2012References: 1

    The case for the relevance of history to government policy analysis and development must contend with opposition from several sources, including the scepticism of many historians towards the idea of applied history. We argue that these objections have obscured the extent to which historical awareness can contribute to sound policy choices and cast light on the value of government intervention. We see particular value in the methods devised by Ric…

  • A Victorian Class Conflict

    Duncan McleanARTICLEThe English Historical Review2012

    Journal Article ‘A Victorian Class Conflict?’: Schoolteaching and the Parson, Priest and Minister, 1837–1902, by John T. Smith Get access ‘ A Victorian Class Conflict?’: Schoolteaching and the Parson, Priest and Minister, 1837–1902, by John T. Smith (Brighton: Sussex Academic P., 2009; pp. 233. £49.50). David McLean David McLean King’s College London [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar…

  • Constructors in a foreign land

    Duncan Mclean, David McleanARTICLEBusiness History2012References: 37

    With railways prohibited in Persia before 1914, roads were the only means to improve the country's transport infrastructure and to allow the inland movement of merchandise. The experience of Lynch & Co. when constructing and operating the Bakhtiari road provides a detailed insight into the difficulties which could face British-owned firms abroad in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries asits commercial activities became entangled with…

  • Books

    Geoffrey Bolton, Mark Finnane et al.ARTICLEAustralian Historical Studies2011

  • Reading Peter Hopkins' The Issue of Masculine Identities for British Muslims After 9/11

    Open AccessRachel Pain, Deborah Phillips et al.ARTICLEPolitical Geography2011Cited by: 2References: 22

  • Still methodologically becoming

    Serin D Houston, D James Mclean et al.ARTICLEGender Place & Culture2010Cited by: 4References: 20

    This article mobilizes a feminist analytic to examine team research and collaborative knowledge production. We center our encounter with team research – a collectivity we named ‘Team Ismaili’ – and our study with first- and second-generation East African Shia Ismaili Muslim immigrants in Greater Vancouver, Canada. We draw upon feminist politics to highlight the ways in which ‘Team Ismaili’ at once destabilized and unwittingly reproduced normative…

  • Protecting wood and killing germs

    Duncan Mclean, David McleanARTICLEBusiness History2010Cited by: 1References: 18

    Discovering chemicals as disinfectants and for timber preservation offered profitable opportunities in the early nineteenth century. After 1839 Sir William Burnett promoted his pioneering patent for zinc chloride – attempting to persuade both fellow medical practitioners and the Admiralty of its widespread uses. Trials in the navy, among migrants to Canada in 1847–48, and during Britain's 1849 cholera epidemic were all intended to demonstrate the…

  • Maritime Quarantine

    Duncan McleanARTICLESocial History of Medicine2008

    For centuries, quarantine was accepted across Europe as the only defence against the spread of plague. The disease, it was commonly held, was contagious: people and goods moving from infected locations were therefore detained until cleared to enter a port and nation unaffected. Booker's study of the ways in which this system operated under British law is comprehensive. He examines its economic, administrative and diplomatic aspects, starting with…

  • Trade, Politics and the Navy in Latin America

    Duncan Mclean, David McleanARTICLEThe Journal of Imperial &…2007Cited by: 3References: 4

    When military conflict and economic disruption in the river Plate region led to a British naval occupation of the river Paraná in 1845–46, traders from many nations followed the warships upstream hoping to conduct business in the Argentine interior and with Paraguay. Since the 1920s historians have uniformly disparaged this Paraná expedition as a commercial failure, insisting that the foreign intruders found neither trade nor welcome among the lo…

  • From British Colony to American Satellite? Australia and the USA during the Cold War

    Open AccessDuncan Mclean, David McleanARTICLEAustralian Journal of Politics &…2006

    This article challenges the widely‐accepted view that Australia's strategic relationship with the USA during the period 1945–69 thwarted the full development of Australian nationhood and, in so doing, formed an obstacle to Australia's accommodation with its region. It argues that the most influential perspectives on the subject place too much emphasis on the 1940s as a watershed in Australian foreign policy history, exaggerate differences between…

  • Public Health and Politics in the Age of Reform

    Duncan Mclean, David McleanBOOKPublic Health and Politics in the…2006

    Cholera was the scourge of nineteenth century Britain, with four devastating epidemics sweeping the country from the 1830s to the 1860s. David McLean provides a detailed study of the efforts of local and national government efforts to combat the disease. Based on a unique cache of documents, McLean’s account exposes the struggles between local and national government as they grappled with the enormity of the problem and the conflict between polic…

  • Surgeons of The Opium War

    Duncan McleanARTICLEThe English Historical Review2006Cited by: 1

    Medical officers during the Opium War faced not only the dangers of combat but, more commonly, the devastating effects of disease among soldiers, sailors and marines. Desperate for assistant-surgeons in the East, the Admiralty sent out 6 fresh recruits, one of whom, Henry Willan, left correspondence and a diary which has only recently come to light. This piece is based not only on his papers but also the unstudied records of other naval and army …

  • Australia in the Cold War

    Duncan Mclean, David McleanARTICLEThe International History Review2001

    country's foreign relations. Commonly accepted perspectives on Australia's experience during the cold war, which maintained that the period had been characterized by Australia's servility to the United States, influenced the public response to issues such as Australia's military commitments in the Persian Gulf in 1991 and 1998, and demonstrated the appeal of an Australian version of the 'Vietnam syndrome'. While for Americans the most powerful le…

  • Education and Empire

    Duncan Mclean, David McleanBOOKEducation and Empire1999

    The social problems accompanying industrialization and rapid urban growth provoked a widespread debate which forced education onto the political agenda, and the new ideas about teaching methods, curricula and the physical and moral care of children, developed rapidly. This study, based on records of the Admiralty Schools at Greenwich, provides an insight into the problems and the achievements of mid-19th century schools, catering for a range of p…

  • Garibaldi in Uruguay

    Duncan McleanARTICLEThe English Historical Review1998Cited by: 3

    Garibaldi in Uruguay: A Reputation Reconsidered Get access DAVID MCLEAN DAVID MCLEAN King's College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXIII, Issue 451, April 1998, Pages 351–366, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXIII.451.351 Published: 01 April 1998

  • War, Diplomacy, and Informal Empire

    Simon Collier, Duncan Mclean et al.ARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review1997

    La Plata and the British before 1836 war and the invasion of Uruguay, 1836-43 the failure of diplomacy, 1843 Britain, France and the policy of intervention, 1844 the beginning of hostilities, 1845 an expedition into the Parana, 1845-6 Hood's mission to la Plata, 1846 Ouseley continues the war, 1846-7 the diplomacy of Howden and Walewski, 1847 Palmerston's search for a peace settlement, 1848 the resumption of relations at Buenos Aires, 1848-9 the …