Helen King
Biographic Data
| ID | 3584509 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Helen King |
| GIVEN NAMES | Helen |
| FAMILY NAME | King |
| SIGNATURE | KING H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northumbria University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0444-340X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 49 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 48 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
From the knowledge economy to the hidden curriculum: (In)equitable transitions to higher education in the UK
This article explores the barriers to an equitable transition from secondary to higher education. Taking our home institution of Newcastle University as a case study, we consider the relationship of the ‘hidden curriculum’ of higher education in the United Kingdom with the sector-wide neoliberalisation of education, arguing that a governmental emphasis on the so-called ‘knowledge economy’ has had an ongoing impact on students’ experience of the t…
Ongoing crisis across the HIV care continuum: High mortality among PWH admitted to the ICU in an urban safety-net hospital in the South
We present a retrospective study of people with HIV (PWH) admitted to the medical intensive care unit (MICU) of an 862-bed academic, safety-net hospital. We aimed to determine the characteristics of ICU admissions among PWH, measure the mortality in this population and identify predictors of mortality. All patients ≥ 18 years old with a diagnosis of HIV infection admitted to the MICU between January 1, 2017 and December 31, 2019 were included. A …
Hysteria Beyond Freud
The Multiple Speeds of Infrastructural Violence, or Putting Flesh on the Boneyard
In recent years, museums have been acknowledged as powerful geopolitical sites. In this article, we explore the military museums of southern Arizona, primarily the Pima Air and Space Museum in Tucson, as a unique kind of infrastructure where the museum and the military meet. Drawing on participant observation, we explore how the museum experience provides crucial affective and emotional dimensions to the ideological production the military is inv…
Never the twain shall cross: Scripts of children's play and adult desire in Barbie
Greta Gerwig's Barbie (2023) is deeply invested in the liberatory and transformative potential of children's play. Children's play in Barbie is the site of self-actualisation for adult women, whereby the subversive potential of Barbie-play facilitates nostalgia, self-discovery and choice for the film's adult protagonists. This move towards self-actualisation is core to Barbie's feminist ethic, which I argue is a type of 'commodity feminism' that …
Being Flesh: Bodies, History and LLF
Like history, the body played a disappointingly minor role in the Living in Love and Faith (LLF) outputs. This article introduces the relationship between medical theories of the body and theological understandings of a God who became flesh. History shows us many times at which the appeal of binaries has dominated understandings of our enfleshed existence, but also the range of other ways in which bodies have been understood. Using as examples th…
Implementation of Sexual Health Curriculum Series: Educational Initiative to Increase STI Screening and Treatment in Dallas, Texas
The Body in Balance: Humoral Medicines in Practice
Focusing on practice more than theory, this collection offers new perspectives for studying the so-called “humoral medical traditions,” as they have flourished around the globe during the last 2,000 years. Exploring notions of “balance” in medical cultures across Eurasia, Africa and the Americas, from antiquity to the present, the volume revisits “harmony” and “holism” as main characteristics of those traditions. It foregrounds a dynamic notion o…
Animal hoarding cases in England: Implications for public health services
Hoarding disorder is characterized by an accumulation of possessions due to excessive acquisition of or difficulty discarding possessions, regardless of their actual value and is estimated to affect 2–6% of the population. Animal hoarding, a distinct subset of hoarding disorder, has a significant public health impact on the humans involved, as well as animal welfare. Individuals exhibit self-neglect, apathy, social withdrawal and object hoarding;…
‘Children My Age Should Be Reading Books Like Journey to Jo’burg ’: Patterns of Anti-Racist Reading in Archived Reader Responses
Using archived reader responses to Beverley Naidoo’s Journey to Jo’burg (1985), I employ the framework of Antiracist Pedagogy to explore how readers engage with the novel’s indictment of racism in apartheid South Africa. Drawing on classroom responses from a variety of global contexts, I develop a context-orientated approach to reader response criticism that draws on theories of child agency developed by Karen Sánchez-Eppler (2005) and Robin Bern…
The heterogeneous nature of second homes: The case of the Alpujarra, Granada Province, Spain
This article builds on the current recognition of the uneven geography of the second home phenomenon. Where other studies have attempted local-scale analysis of second homes, there has been a tendency to characterise localities as homogeneous and a failure to fully recognise key geographical variations in the composition of second home characteristics within local areas. This analysis demonstrates the importance of understanding the distinct plac…
Mid-Nineteenth-Century Population Movement in the Anglo-Scottish Border Region
Using data from six sample parishes, this article examines the migration of predominantly agricultural labour across the Anglo-Scottish border in the mid-nineteenth century. The main purpose is to establish the extent to which the Border formed a barrier to movement at this time. A largely similar agricultural system within the Border region, with a specific character to its employment processes, appears to have been significant in reducing any n…
The New Distribution: Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Large Distribution Warehouse Premises in England and Wales
This research addresses the deficit of empirical investigation of changes in industrial and warehouse property markets in the UK. It uses business rates (rating list) data for England and Wales to reveal changes in the quantum and distribution of premises over the last decade. Spatio-temporal analysis using geographical information systems identifies where new industrial and warehouse premises have been developed and examines spatial changes in t…
PrEP University: A Multi-Disciplinary University-Based HIV Prevention Education Program
The introduction of emtricitabine/tenofovir diphosphate (FTC/TDF) as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention has raised questions regarding which clinicians will serve as prescribers and how providers will be educated about this HIV prevention strategy. We piloted an HIV Prevention Education Program called PrEP University (PrEP U) to address knowledge gaps in HIV prevention among medical trainees. We examined PrEP awareness and assesse…
Using GIS to Explore the Potential of Business Rating Data to Analyse Stock and Value Change for Land Administration: A Case Study of York
This study explores the potential of GIS to map and analyse the distribution, stock and value of commercial and industrial property using rating data compiled for the purposes of charging business rates taxation on all non-residential property in the UK. Rating data from 2010, 2017 and 2019, comprising over 6000 property units in the City of York, were filtered and classified by retail, office and industrial use, before geocoding by post code. No…
Exploring the heterogeneity of second homes and the ‘residual’ category
Geographers and the scholarship of teaching and learning
In this paper we draw attention to the attributes and values which equip geographers to engage in the scholarship of teaching and learning. We begin by summarising key characteristics of geographers in higher education, synthesized from academic literature. We support our summary with comments from past editors of the Journal of Geography in Higher Education offered in answer to the question: “What is it about the geographer’s identity or modes a…
Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning
Anthropology and the Classics
Anthropology and the classics currently enjoy a fairly good relationship, but one which has never been stable. In the 19th cent. the interest of evolutionary anthropology in a 'savage' period through which all societies must pass meant that studies of contemporary simple societies began to be used to illuminate the classical past. After the First World War, classicists reacted against what were perceived as the excesses of the work of Jane Harris…
Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Accessibility Research and Evaluation (PrEpare Study)
Fighting Through Fiction
Comprehensive carbon stock and flow accounting: A national framework to support climate change mitigation policy
Greenhouse gas (GHG) inventories underpinning the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and Kyoto Protocol report each country's net annual emissions, that is GHG flows. Yet the UNFCCC's goal is defined as a stock (atmospheric GHG concentration). Flow inventories are apt for the fossil fuel sector where flows are effectively one way, stock changes are almost entirely anthropogenic, and stocks are stable in the absence of …
Sex and gender: The Hippocratic case of Phaethousa and her beard
The paper investigates the implications, for a ‘one-sex’ model of the body, of the Hippocratic case history in which a woman ceases to menstruate and then grows a beard after her husband leaves. This story challenges a model of sexual difference based solely on the gonads, drawing attention to other visible or audible markers, and to the hierarchical relationships between them. The long history of reception of this story, telling it in a variety …
Developing an Indicator of Property Market Resilience—Investigating the Potential of GIS to Analyse Business Occupier Displacement and Property Market Filtering: A Case Study of Tyne and Wear
The research investigates the potential of a geographical information system to analyse the recorded displacement of office and industrial occupiers in Tyne and Wear, England. The paper demonstrates that a GIS provides an effective tool with which to illustrate, analyse and model occupier displacement and market filtering. The research goes on to develop and test an indicator with which to identify urban areas that may be most vulnerable to prope…
Blood, Sweat and Tears: The Changing Concepts of Physiology from Antiquity into Early Modern Europe
The history of anatomy has been the subject of much recent scholarship. This volume shifts the focus to the many different ways in which the function of the body and its fluids were understood in pre-modern European thought. Contributors demonstrate how different academic disciplines can contribute to our understanding of ‘physiology’, and investigate the value of this category to pre-modern medicine. The book contains individual essays on the wi…
Greek Athletics and the Genesis of Sport
How is sport in contemporary society related to sport in earlier civilizations? Why is the expenditure of energy involved in sport considered exhilarating, while the equivalent expenditure of energy in other contexts can be dispiriting? David Sansone offers answers to these questions and advances a revolutionary thesis to account for the widespread phenomenon of sport. Drawing upon ethnological findings to demonstrate the ritual character of spor…
Geographers and the scholarship of teaching and learning
In this paper we draw attention to the attributes and values which equip geographers to engage in the scholarship of teaching and learning. We begin by summarising key characteristics of geographers in higher education, synthesized from academic literature. We support our summary with comments from past editors of the Journal of Geography in Higher Education offered in answer to the question: “What is it about the geographer’s identity or modes a…
Strength in Diversity: Enhancing Learning in Vocationally-Orientated, Master's Level Courses
Postgraduate education in geography, especially at the Master's level, is undergoing significant changes in the developed world. There is an expansion of vocationally oriented degree programmes, increasing recruitment of international students, integration of workplace skills, and the engagement of non-traditional postgraduate students as departments respond to policies for a more ‘inclusive’ higher education. This paper sets the context by outli…
Rituals and Power: The Roman Imperial Cult in Asia Minor
Exploring the heterogeneity of second homes and the ‘residual’ category
Comprehensive carbon stock and flow accounting: A national framework to support climate change mitigation policy
Greenhouse gas (GHG) inventories underpinning the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and Kyoto Protocol report each country's net annual emissions, that is GHG flows. Yet the UNFCCC's goal is defined as a stock (atmospheric GHG concentration). Flow inventories are apt for the fossil fuel sector where flows are effectively one way, stock changes are almost entirely anthropogenic, and stocks are stable in the absence of …
The Multiple Speeds of Infrastructural Violence, or Putting Flesh on the Boneyard
In recent years, museums have been acknowledged as powerful geopolitical sites. In this article, we explore the military museums of southern Arizona, primarily the Pima Air and Space Museum in Tucson, as a unique kind of infrastructure where the museum and the military meet. Drawing on participant observation, we explore how the museum experience provides crucial affective and emotional dimensions to the ideological production the military is inv…
Never the twain shall cross: Scripts of children's play and adult desire in Barbie
Greta Gerwig's Barbie (2023) is deeply invested in the liberatory and transformative potential of children's play. Children's play in Barbie is the site of self-actualisation for adult women, whereby the subversive potential of Barbie-play facilitates nostalgia, self-discovery and choice for the film's adult protagonists. This move towards self-actualisation is core to Barbie's feminist ethic, which I argue is a type of 'commodity feminism' that …
Sex and gender: The Hippocratic case of Phaethousa and her beard
The paper investigates the implications, for a ‘one-sex’ model of the body, of the Hippocratic case history in which a woman ceases to menstruate and then grows a beard after her husband leaves. This story challenges a model of sexual difference based solely on the gonads, drawing attention to other visible or audible markers, and to the hierarchical relationships between them. The long history of reception of this story, telling it in a variety …
Developing an Indicator of Property Market Resilience—Investigating the Potential of GIS to Analyse Business Occupier Displacement and Property Market Filtering: A Case Study of Tyne and Wear
The research investigates the potential of a geographical information system to analyse the recorded displacement of office and industrial occupiers in Tyne and Wear, England. The paper demonstrates that a GIS provides an effective tool with which to illustrate, analyse and model occupier displacement and market filtering. The research goes on to develop and test an indicator with which to identify urban areas that may be most vulnerable to prope…
Interpretations of Greek Mythology
This collection of original studies offers new interpretations of some of the best known characters and themes of Greek mythology, reflecting the complexity and fascination of the Greek imagination. Following analyses of the concept of myth and the influence of the Orient on Greek mythology, the succeeding chapters shed new light on the threatening appearance of wolf and werewolf and on such familiar figures as Oedipus, Orpheus and Narcissus. The…
Books of Death
Mortality and Immortality: The Anthropology and Archaeology of Death
Agnodike and the profession of medicine
Hyginus, Fabula 274.10-13: antiqui obstetrices non habuerunt, unde mulieres uerecundia ductae interierant. nam Athenienses cauerunt ne quis seruus aut femina artem medicinam disceret. Agnodice quaedam puella uirgo concupiuit medicinam discere, quae cum concupisset, demptis capillis habitu uirili se Herophilo cuidam tradidit in disciplinam. quae cum artem didicisset, et feminam laborantem audisset ab inferiore parte, ueniebat ad eam, quae cum cred…
Rituals and Power: The Roman Imperial Cult in Asia Minor
Midwives in History and Society (Book)
Greek Athletics and the Genesis of Sport
How is sport in contemporary society related to sport in earlier civilizations? Why is the expenditure of energy involved in sport considered exhilarating, while the equivalent expenditure of energy in other contexts can be dispiriting? David Sansone offers answers to these questions and advances a revolutionary thesis to account for the widespread phenomenon of sport. Drawing upon ethnological findings to demonstrate the ritual character of spor…
Interpretations of Greek Mythology
This collection of original studies offers new interpretations of some of the best known characters and themes of Greek mythology, reflecting the complexity and fascination of the Greek imagination. Following analyses of the concept of myth and the influence of the Orient on Greek mythology, the succeeding chapters shed new light on the threatening appearance of wolf and werewolf and on such familiar figures as Oedipus, Orpheus and Narcissus. The…
The Constraints of Desire: The Anthropology of Sex and Gender in Ancient Greece . John J. Winkler
ONE Once upon a Text: Hysteria from Hippocrates
Hysteria beyond Freud
The Aphrodite of Knidos and Her Successors: A Historical Review of the Female Nude in Greek Art . By Christine Mitchell Havelock. Die Nike von Samothrake: Typus, Form, Bedeutung und Wirkungsgeschichte…
Beyond the Medical Market-Place: New Directions in Ancient Medicine
Reading the Female Body
Cadden, Joan The Meanings of Sex Difference in the Middle Ages: Medicine, Natural Philosophy, and Culture Dean‐Jones, Lesley Ann Women’s Bodies in Classical Greek Science Demand, Nancy Birth, Death, and Motherhood in Classical Greece
Sculptors and Physicians in Fifth-Century Greece: A Preliminary Study . By Guy P. R. Métraux. Anatomie und Physiognomie in der hellenistischen Plastik: Dargestellt am Pergamonaltar . By Mechtild Amber…
Eros: The Myth of Ancient Greek Sexuality (review)
Reviewed by: Eros: The Myth of Ancient Greek Sexuality Helen King Bruce S. Thornton. Eros: The Myth of Ancient Greek Sexuality. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1997. xvii + 282 pp. $U.S. 28.00; $Can. 39.50. This book opens with a discussion of the concepts of custom and nature in Greek literature before 100 b.c.e. Thornton stresses that nature was a fickle and destructive power, entirely unlike its Romantic version; in Greek literature, a beautif…
The Making of Man-Midwifery: Childbirth in England, 1660-1770. Adrian Wilson
The Wandering Womb: A Cultural History of Outrageous Beliefs about Women . Lana Thompson
Hippocrates' Woman: Reading the Female Body in Ancient Greece
Creating the world: The origins of all things in ancient Greek myth and medicine
In the sixth and fifth centuries BC, a series of dramatic shifts in science and the arts took place in the Greek world, and history, medicine, philosophy, and science came into being. This paper examines 'the Greek miracle', looking at how new ideas about 'the origin of all things' were rooted in traditional mythic patterns of thought. In particular, it examines how medical writers thought about the origins of the cosmos, and of disease. The mult…
Health in Antiquity
The Art Is Long: On the Sacred Disease and the Scientific Tradition (review)
The fifth-century BC medical text On the Sacred Disease is often used in positivist accounts of the origins of modern medicine. In this elegant and readable analysis, Julie Laskaris submits that the text demonstrates not the first stage of the triumph of scientific thought, but the enduring strength of other ways of healing dating back to the Bronze Age. In a tightly argued introduction, drawing in particular on the work of Karl Popper, she exami…
Strength in Diversity: Enhancing Learning in Vocationally-Orientated, Master's Level Courses
Postgraduate education in geography, especially at the Master's level, is undergoing significant changes in the developed world. There is an expansion of vocationally oriented degree programmes, increasing recruitment of international students, integration of workplace skills, and the engagement of non-traditional postgraduate students as departments respond to policies for a more ‘inclusive’ higher education. This paper sets the context by outli…
Women’s Health and Recovery in the Hippocratic Corpus
Bodies of Knowledge: The Medicalization of Reproduction in Greece (review)
Reviewed by: Bodies of Knowledge: The Medicalization of Reproduction in Greece Helen King Eugenia Georges. Bodies of Knowledge: The Medicalization of Reproduction in Greece. Nashville, Tenn.: Vanderbilt University Press, 2008. xiii + 322 pp. Ill. $79.95 (cloth, 978-0-8265-1598-8), $34.95 (paperbound, 978-0-8265-1599-5). This study of Rhodes, from the 1940s onward, looks at changes and continuities in beliefs about the female body, covering fertil…
Blood, Sweat and Tears: The Changing Concepts of Physiology from Antiquity into Early Modern Europe
The history of anatomy has been the subject of much recent scholarship. This volume shifts the focus to the many different ways in which the function of the body and its fluids were understood in pre-modern European thought. Contributors demonstrate how different academic disciplines can contribute to our understanding of ‘physiology’, and investigate the value of this category to pre-modern medicine. The book contains individual essays on the wi…
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