David Bell
Biographic Data
| ID | 3597360 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Bell |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Bell |
| SIGNATURE | BELL D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Staffordshire |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2164-0328 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 150 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 794 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 149 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
WHO’s pandemic response recommendations after Covid-19: Lessons learned or learnings lost
Objectives: This article examines how the World Health Organization's (WHO) recommendations and guidelines on public health and social measures (PHSM) have changed since COVID-19. Doing so allows insights on what lessons WHO has learned from the COVID-19 response. Methods: The article analyses six recent WHO publications detailing recommendations on PHSM and compares them against three pre-COVID-19 WHO documents. The analysis also assesses the ev…
Knowledge and its pretenders: Bion’s contribution to knowledge and thought
The devil’s in the detail: An appraisal of the use of innovative financing mechanisms for pandemic prevention, preparedness and response
This is the first published study examining whether, and to what degree, innovative financing could effectively support the financing needs of the global pandemic prevention, preparedness and response (PPPR) agenda. Background: What is already known? In the context of global health, innovative financing encompasses a range of financial instruments that supplement international development assistance and other traditional sources of financing, wit…
Should Eminence Outweigh Evidence? The Global Preparedness Monitoring Board's Report on Pandemic Preparedness
The Global Pandemic Monitoring Board (GPMB) is a group of eminent individuals publishing reports calling for increased emphasis on pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response (PPPR). They advocate for the World Health Organization's (WHO) PPPR preferred approach and its attendant financial requests. Though claiming independence, GPMB is co‐convened by WHO and the World Bank. The GPMB report of January 2025 displays a selective approach in whi…
No, It Doesn’t Go Without Saying: Energy Justice, Public Investment, and Social Entrepreneurship—A Clean Energy Heuristic
Exposure assessment during paint spraying and drying using PTR-ToF-MS
Spraying is a common way to distribute occupational products, but it puts worker's health at risk by exposing them to potentially harmful particles and gases. The objective of this study is to use time-resolved measurements to gain an understanding of spray applications at the process level and to compare them to predictions of exposure models. We used proton transfer reaction time-of-flight mass spectrometry (PTR-ToF-MS) at 1-s time resolution t…
Urgent pandemic messaging of WHO , World Bank, and G20 is inconsistent with their evidence base
When international agencies make claims of an “existential threat” to humanity and advocate for urgent action from countries, it should be a safe assumption that they are consistent with their own data. However, a review of the data and evidentiary citations underlying the claims of the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Bank, and the Group of Twenty (G20) reveals a troubling picture in which the stated urgency and burden of infectious di…
Preparing for pandemics needs a dose of public health and a booster of “complex thought” (Errare humanum est, perseverare diabolicum)
The COVID‐19 pandemic has triggered unprecedented governmental responses worldwide, revealing weaknesses in health systems and public health policies due to lack of “complex thought” required to manage complex adaptive systems. Understanding COVID‐19 response strategies' multiple effects is particularly important now that pandemic preparedness and response (PPR) is on top of the global health political agenda. Here, we adopt a complex adaptive sy…
Cooking and Commensality after Grenfell
This essay provides a reading of the Hubb Community Kitchen’s Together: Our Community Cookbook, which was produced in the aftermath of the Grenfell Tower fire in London in 2017, as a collection of recipes that speaks of commensality as a shared practice that connects cook-writers to reader-cooks. Its reading of the cookbook is grounded in the literatures on commensality, on community cookbooks, and on activist representation of Grenfell. It provi…
Cooking and Commensality after Covid
The focus of this essay is the COVID and post-COVID food media output of celebrity chef Jamie Oliver. Through a close reading of his cookbook Together: Memorable Meals Made Easy and its accompanying TV series Jamie Oliver: Together, the essay explores how forms of commensality are mobilized in these food media texts to establish a post-COVID “new normal,” with an emphasis on sharing food as a way of making and banking memories for a still uncerta…
Royal Society report: What would a comprehensive evaluation suggest about non-pharmaceutical interventions during Covid-19
A recent report by the Royal Society examined the literature on the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) aimed at reducing the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 during the COVID-19 pandemic. It emphatically concluded that they were 'effective', which we argue may be misleading to policymakers. This paper performs a critical analysis of the Royal Society report and explains what a proper evaluation of NPIs would mean, arguing that the…
Response to Igor Romanov
Pandemic preparedness and the road to international fascism
The World Health Organization's broad definition of health embraces physical, mental and social well-being. Expressed in its 1946 constitution alongside concepts of community participation and national sovereignty, it reflected an understanding of a world emerging from centuries of colonialist oppression and the public health industry's shameful facilitation of fascism. Health policy would be people-centered, closely tied to human rights and self…
Hervé Drévillon, Penser et écrire la guerre. Contre Clausewitz, 1780-1837, Paris, Passés composés, 2021, 352 p
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Cancellative discourse markers: A core/periphery approach
2 See Fraser (1997b) for an in-depth discussion of the definition of a discourse marker. 3 Although neither Whereas Quirk et al. and to a lesser extent Halliday and Hasan are more concerned with how markers function as sentence connectors, the notion of discourse marker is intended to capture how markers operate on the propositional, rhetorical and sequential structure of the discourse as a whole
Sentence-initial And and But in academic writing
Prescriptivists have long proscribed sentence-initial And (SIA), and sentence-initial But (SIB). However, SIA and SIB are increasingly used in newspapers and style guides have softened strictures against their use. Moreover, SIA and SIB are amongst the most frequently occurring sentence-initial connectives within their respective semantic groups of additives and contrastives. Given their use despite prohibitions, this paper examines the patterns …
Psychoanalytic reflections on the conditions of possibility of human destructiveness
This paper explores the psychoanalytic contribution to the understanding of war. It takes as its frame of reference the conditions of possibility in the human subject that form the basis for the detonation of such extremes of destruction. Starting with key papers of Freud that address this malaise of our "civilization" it goes on to consider the contributions from the Kleinian school (particularly Money-Kyrle and Segal). The argument is situated …
Who is watching the World Health Organisation? 'Post-truth' moments beyond infodemic research
The World Health Organization (WHO) has established a public research agenda to address infodemics. In these, ‘an overflow of information of varying quality surges across digital and physical environments’. The WHO’s expert panel has raised concerns that this can result in negative health behaviours and erosion of trust in health authorities and public health responses. In sponsoring this agenda, the WHO positioned itself as a custodian that can …
Anticipating the future: Prognostic tools as a complementary strategy to improve care for patients with febrile illnesses in resource-limited settings
In low-income and middle-income countries, most patients with febrile illnesses present to peripheral levels of the health system where diagnostic capacity is very limited. In these contexts, accurate risk stratification can be particularly impactful, helping to guide allocation of scarce resources to ensure timely and tailored care. However, reporting of prognostic research is often imprecise and few prognostic tests or algorithms are translated…
Can we think psychoanalytically about transgenderism? An expanded live Zoom debate with David Bell and Avgi Saketopoulou, moderated by Rachel Blass
In Issue 5 of last year’s IJP we published a controversial discussion titled: “Can we think psychoanalytically about transgenderism?” The participants were Avgi Saketopoulou, a New York psychoanaly
Identity and ideology in digital food discourse: Social media interactions across cultural
Identity and ideology in digital food discourse: social media interactions across cultural." Food, Culture & Society, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
Current Mental Distress Among Men With a History of Radical Prostatectomy and Related Adverse Correlates
Recent reviews and observational studies have reported that patients with prostate cancer (PCa) are at increased risk of mental health issues, which in turn negatively affects oncological outcomes. Here, we examine possible explanatory variables of mental distress in a population-based cohort of men who have undergone radical prostatectomy (RP). Data were derived from a Maritimes-Canada online survey assessing patient-reported quality of life out…
In Search of Jason Mack
Research Article| January 01 2020 In Search of Jason Mack David Bell David Bell DAVID BELL is a legal historian at the University of New Brunswick. His edition of the journal of Ziba Pope, an 1812 convert of Jason Mack, will appear in the Baptist Heritage in Atlantic Canada publication series. This Mack essay owes much to the enthusiastic research of Adrian Forsythe. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Mormon His…
Inside the Digital Learning Laboratory: New Directions in Museum Education
The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (Te Papa) in Wellington is New Zealand’s national museum. In recent years its diverse educational programs have been re‐invigorated with the introduction of new learning experiences for visiting school groups. This article describes a qualitative, formative research evaluation of the activities of Te Papa’s innovative Hīnātore Learning Laboratory digital facility initiated at from 2107. Researchers from…
Neighbourhood arts spaces in place: Cultural infrastructure and participation on the outskirts of the creative city
Set in the context of tensions between ‘community development’ and ‘creative cities’ policy agendas, which often implicitly privilege large-scale city-centre cultural assets, this paper discusses cultural policy and arts provision in three neighbourhoods in the city of Leeds, UK. It uses findings from a pilot research project centred on three small cultural organisations based in neighbourhoods in Leeds’ ‘outer inner city’. Each venue works in an…
All hyped up and no place to go
In this paper we think about the performance of sexual identities in space, and try to explore the notions of transgression and parody implicit in recent queer theory, particularly in the work of Judith Butler. To do this, we take a long hard look at two current dissident sexual identities—the hypermasculine ‘gay skinhead’ and the hyperfeminine ‘lipstick lesbian’. We describe their evolution as sexual‐outlaw styles of the 1990s, and assess the ef…
Queer country: Rural lesbian and gay lives
Small Cities? Towards a Research Agenda
This article asserts the importance of studying small cities. We argue that small cities have been ignored by urban theorists who, in seeking to conceptualize broad urban agendas and depict generalizable models (for example relating to epochal urbanism, the structure and nature of the urban hierarchy, global cities and global city-regions), have tended to obscure as much as they illuminate. Given that study of 'the city' has been vital to broader…
Pleasure and danger: The Paradoxical Spaces of Sexual Citizenship
Farm Boys and Wild Men: Rurality, Masculinity, and Homosexuality
In this paper I explore cultural constructions of 'rural gay masculinity,' focusing first on the stereotype of the 'rustic sodomite' seen in a number of Hollywood movies; second, on the construction of an idyllic Eden in the gay imaginary; and third, on gendered and sexualized performances among members of the men's movement and the 'radical fairies.' In doing so, I suggest how the rural/urban divide is meshed, in complex and distinct ways, with …
Transnational healthcare, cross-border perspectives
Naked as Nature Intended
This article explores the ways in which naturism articulates a set of relationships between the body and nature. We begin by sketching the histories of some Western naturist movements, tracing their lineage back to 19th-century life reform movements and through into inter-war reorientations of citizenship and morality. We consider the problematic of the naked body's relationship to the erotic (and specifically to the erotics of nature), drawing o…
Brief encounters: Assembling cosmetic surgery tourism
This paper reports findings from a large-scale, multi-disciplinary, mixed methods project which explores empirically and theoretically the rapidly growing but poorly understood (and barely regulated) phenomenon of cosmetic surgery tourism (CST). We explore CST by drawing on theories of flows, networks and assemblages, aiming to produce a fuller and more nuanced account of - and accounting for - CST. This enables us to conceptualise CST as an inte…
Geographies of sexual citizenship
Worlding a city: Twinning and urban theory
Twinning is a practice that creates formal and informal political, economic, social and cultural relationships between cities throughout the world. Despite its prevalence there has been relatively little academic attention paid to twinning. Indeed, where writers have considered city twinning they have tended to describe local institutional structures and programmes of events rather than theorising the importance of twinning as a global practice. …
Bikinis and Bandages: An Itinerary for Cosmetic Surgery Tourism
This paper explores the ways in which cosmetic surgery tourism can be thought of specifically as a tourist experience. We argue that whilst essentially involving travel for the purpose of undertaking painful surgery, cosmetic surgery tourism has a particular resonance with the holiday, most usually constructed as relaxing and restorative. This resonance is connected to the importance in contemporary society of not simply possessing the cultural c…
First do no harm
Every social order creates those character forms which it needs for its own preservation ... The character structure ... is the crystallization of the sociological process of a given epoch. (Wilhelm R
[Screw]ing Geography (Censor's Version)
Hospitality, Culture and Regeneration: Urban Decay, Entrepreneurship and the ‘Ruin’ Bars of Budapest
This paper considers the relationships between hospitality, culture and urban regeneration through an examination of rom (ruin) venues, which operate in dilapidated buildings in Budapest, Hungary. The paper reviews previous work on culture and urban regeneration in order to locate the role of hospitality within emerging debates. It subsequently interrogates the evolution of the rom phenomenon and demonstrates how, in this context, hospitality thr…
City of Quarters: Urban Villages in the Contemporary City
In cities throughout the world, there is an increasingly ubiquitous presence of distinct social and spatial areas - urban villages, cultural and ethnic quarters. These spaces are sites where capital and culture intertwine in new ways. City of Quarters brings together some of the most prominent authors writing about urban villages to provide the first systematic and multi-disciplinary overview of this high-profile urban phenomenon. They address ke…
Mobile Homes
This article considers the relationships between mobility and immobility in the context of food and cooking. It focuses on the construction of the domestic as a gendered, ethnicized, and classed space of immobility through which others experience “real” or “virtual” travel. These themes are explored through three examples: Vicky Bhogal's recipe book Cooking like Mummyji , the TV series by celebrity chef Jamie Oliver, Jamie's Great Escape , and th…
Trading faces: The ‘Korean Look’ and medical nationalism in South Korean cosmetic surgery tourism
This paper addresses the growing phenomenon of cosmetic surgery tourism through a focus on the development of this industry in South Korea. Unlike many discussions of this topic, the paper decentres dominant narratives based on west‐goes‐east or north‐goes‐south journeys. Instead, we look at regional flows by exploring the experiences of Chinese patients travelling to South Korea in search of facial cosmetic surgery – procedures often referred to…
Campaigning culinary documentaries and the responsibilization of food crises
Ties that blind: On not seeing (or looking) beyond ‘the family’
Ties that blind: on not seeing (or looking) beyond 'the family
Is truth an illusion? Psychoanalysis and postmodernism
The sort of reflection that I have been engaging in is just the sort of reflection that both Comte and Rorty see as pointless. For Comte, such reflection is a throwback to a pre-scientific age; for Rorty, a reluctance to enter fully into the postmodern one. Some of you will probaly agree with one or other of these thinkers. But in my view reflection on just what it is that makes thinkers like Rorty doubt the very idea of representing the world, a…
In bed with the state: Political geography and sexual politics
Beautiful face, beautiful place: Relational geographies and gender in cosmetic surgery tourism websites
Cosmetic surgery tourism is a significant and growing area of medical tourism. This article explores the gendered construction of cosmetic surgery tourism in different geographical locations through an analysis of destination websites in Spain, the Czech Republic and Thailand. We examine the ways in which gender and other intersections of identity interact with notions of space, place and travel to construct particular locations and cosmetic surg…
Twin Cities: Territorial and Relational Geographies of ‘Worldly’ Manchester
This paper contributes to recent interest in city twinning by urban theorists. It begins with a review of writing from across the social sciences which describes the institutional context and content of twinning programmes, as well as work which theorises how care and hospitality are key elements of twinning practices. Ethnographic research is then presented from the City of Manchester (UK) in order to consider the ways in which twinning is const…
The Cultural Economy of Small Cities
This paper contributes to a burgeoning body of literature which seeks to highlight the importance of studying small cities. Dissatisfaction with urban theory dominated by study of 'the city' defined in terms of a small number of 'global' cities has led theorists to consider what is lost as a consequence of this bias. Although there is long way to go to challenge the orthodoxies of urban theory dominated by study of the 'biggest and best', here we…
Sex lives and audiotape: Geography, sexuality and undergraduate dissertations
The dissertation is commonly the largest piece of work conducted by UK geography undergraduates. There has been an increase in dissertations on topics grouped under the heading ‘sexual geographies’. This paper addresses some of the practicalities in doing a dissertation on sexual geographies, from choosing a topic to selecting a relevant methodological framework. It also draws attention to issues in the ethics of independent research in this area
Contemporary French Political Thought
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Contemporary French Political Thought. By Roy Pierce. (London : Oxford U.P. 1966. Pp. x + 276. 45s). David Bell David Bell Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 18, Issue 72, July 1968, Pages 282–283, https://doi.org/10.2307/2218581 Published: 01 July 1968
Religion as a one-way ticket
Income Distribution and Regional Development
Journal Article Income Distribution and Regional Development Get access Income Distribution and Regional Development. By K. Mera. (Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1975. Distributed by International Book Distributors. Pp. xi + 242. £5.90.) David Bell David Bell The Fraser of Allander Institute University of Strathclyde Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 87, Issue 345, 1 March 197…
Serres's Zola: Literature, Science, Myth
Ideology and Politics: The Socialist Party of France
Frege's Theory of Judgement
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Frege’s Theory of Judgement. By David Bell. (Oxford: Clarendon Press: O.U.P. 1979. Pp. xii+166. Price £8.50) Peter Long Peter Long Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 30, Issue 120, July 1980, Pages 254–255, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219252 Published: 01 July 1980
Frege's Theory of Judgment
Economic Modelling. Current Issues and Problems in Macroeconomic Modelling in the UK and the US
Journal Article Economic Modelling. Current Issues and Problems in Macroeconomic Modelling in the UK and the US Get access Economic Modelling. Current Issues and Problems in Macroeconomic Modelling in the UK and the US. Edited by PAUL ORMEROD. (London: Heinemann, 1979. Pp. xvii +349. £21.00.) David Bell David Bell The Fraser of Allander Institute, University of Strathclyde Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar T…
The Place of the Grundlagen in Frege's Development
Journal Article The Place of the Grundlagen in Feege’s Development Get access David Bell David Bell University of Sheffield Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 31, Issue 124, July 1981, Pages 209–224, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219110 Published: 01 July 1981
Hacker and Baker on Wittgenstein
Labour Utilization and Statutory Non-Wage Costs
The purpose of this paper is to develop a theoretical framework in which to analyse the effects of statutory non-wage costs on labour utilization. The theoretical analysis of statutory non-wage costs has been hampered by the complexity of the various schemes operated by different countries. Most countries have a social security contribution scheme that is partly fixed with respect to labour utilization and partly variable. In this paper a contrib…
Frege's Theory of Judgement
Reference and Sense: An Epitome
Journal Article Reference and Sense: An Epitome Get access David Bell David Bell University of Sheffield Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 34, Issue 136, July 1984, Pages 369–372, https://doi.org/10.2307/2218766 Published: 01 July 1984
Spinoza in Germany from 1670 to the Age of Goethe
Logique du pire
The Decline of the French Communist Party
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The Game of the Name, Introducing Logic, Language and Mind
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access The Game of the Name, Introducing Logic, Language and Mind. By Gregory Mcculloch. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989. Pp. xvi + 320. Price £30.00 hardback; £9.95 paperback.) David Bell David Bell University of Sheffield Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 40, Issue 160, July 1990, Pages 388–392, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219729 Published: 0…
Husserl
Journal Article Critical Notices Get access Husserl. By David Bell. (London: Routledge, 1990, Pp. xv + 266. Price £35.00.) Michael Dummett Michael Dummett New College, University of Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 41, Issue 165, October 1991, Pages 483–488, https://doi.org/10.2307/2220082 Published: 01 October 1991
Fantasy island/Panic subway
This paper is an extract from a collaborative project between David BeU (text and maps), Gordon Ross (sound) and Lorraine Mosson (photographs)
Husserl
Husserl
Understanding Phenomenology
All hyped up and no place to go
In this paper we think about the performance of sexual identities in space, and try to explore the notions of transgression and parody implicit in recent queer theory, particularly in the work of Judith Butler. To do this, we take a long hard look at two current dissident sexual identities—the hypermasculine ‘gay skinhead’ and the hyperfeminine ‘lipstick lesbian’. We describe their evolution as sexual‐outlaw styles of the 1990s, and assess the ef…
Erotic Topographies: On the Sexuality and Space Network
In bed with the state: Political geography and sexual politics
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