Jonathan Bell
Biographic Data
| ID | 3783514 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonathan Bell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonathan |
| FAMILY NAME | Bell |
| SIGNATURE | BELL J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Reading |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1423-1558 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Health Care Capitalism and the Precarious Right to Bodily Autonomy in the United States since the Rights Revolutions
In May 1990, in the first case of its kind, the National Gay Rights Advocates (NGRA) secured a California court judgment prohibiting an insurance company from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation. Great Republic Insurance Company had been using a supplemental questionnaire to screen out “occupations that do not require physical exertion ... such as florists, interior decorators, and fashion designers,” as well as to use applicants’ m…
Safety and efficacy of the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine (AZD1222) against Sars-CoV-2: An interim analysis of four randomised controlled trials in Brazil, South Africa, and the UK
Background A safe and efficacious vaccine against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), if deployed with high coverage, could contribute to the control of the COVID-19 pandemic. We evaluated the safety and efficacy of the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine in a pooled interim analysis of four trials. Methods This analysis includes data from four ongoing blinded, randomised, controlled trials done across the UK, Brazil, and South Afri…
Impact of Covid-19 Lockdowns on Sexual Health Care Utilization and STD Reporting, Maricopa County
The Maricopa County Department of Public Health (MCDPH) Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) Clinic remained operational during a 6-week statewide Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Stay-at-Home Order. The present study sought to evaluate the effect of the Stay-at-Home Order on countywide STD reporting and uptake of sexual health services. We compared countywide daily median STD reporting and MCDPH STD clinic attendance across 3 timeframes; (1) Pr…
Using community‐based participatory research to address STI/HIV disparities and social determinants of health among young GBMSM and transgender women of colour in North Carolina, USA
Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and HIV disproportionately affect young persons; gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (GBMSM) and transgender women; persons of colour; and the U.S. South. Complex issues contribute to these high STI/HIV rates. Our community-based participatory research (CBPR) partnership conducted a community-driven needs assessment to inform an intervention addressing STI/HIV disparities and related social det…
"Rethinking the "Straight State: Welfare Politics, Health Care, and Public Policy in the Shadow of Aids
Daniel E. Dawes, 150 Years of ObamaCare
This is an important book that will come to serve as a key reference work for anyone wishing to understand the process by which the Affordable Care Act came into existence, not to mention the actual contents of the law itself. The title is somewhat misleading, as the book is very much an insider’s account of the events of 2009 and 2010 rather than an in-depth history of health care reform efforts. But it is no less significant for that. The autho…
Lily Geismer. Don’t Blame Us: Suburban Liberals and the Transformation of the Democratic Party
In this exhaustively researched, compelling book, Lily Geismer joins an impressive roster of political historians, notably Lisa McGirr, Matthew D. Lassiter, and Kevin M. Kruse, in using American suburbia as a way of framing important sociopolitical changes in the wake of the rights revolutions of the sixties and after. But whereas other works have highlighted the role of so-called “suburban warriors” in shifting the center of gravity of American …
Evolving national park models: The emergence of an economic imperative and its effect on the contested nature of the ‘national’ park concept in Northern Ireland
The Relocation of VOC-Era Bosheuvel Farm in the Liesbeeck River Valley, Cape Town: A Land Surveying Approach
The article reports on the relocation of Bosheuvel, the most southerly of the original farms granted by the Dutch East India Company (VOC) along the Liesbeeck River in Cape Town between 1657 and 1660. These are represented on Pieter Potter's general plans of 1658 and 1661. An original beacon that is still in use in the current cadastre is identified. This beacon is thought to be the oldest surviving cadastral beacon in South Africa and is worthy …
Thomas W. Devine. Henry Wallace's 1948 Presidential Campaign and the Future of Postwar Liberalism
The year 1948 was a dramatic one in American political history. It marked the first explicit civil rights plank in the Democratic Party platform; the Deep South's resultant break from the party to follow a “Dixiecrat” racist revolt led by South Carolina governor Strom Thurmond; the launch of the Marshall Plan to reconstruct postwar Europe; and the surprise victory of Harry S. Truman in the presidential election that November, suggesting that the …
Beatrix Hoffman, Health Care for Some: Rights and Rationing in the United States since 1930
Since the publication of Paul Starr's The Social Transformation of American Medicine almost thirty years ago, there have been numerous studies of the evolution of the modern health care system in the United States. Much scholarship has focused on the political impediments to anything approaching universal access to health care since the New Deal. Beatrix Hoffman approaches this well-trodden topic with her own particular angle of vision: health ca…
California Crucible: The Forging of Modern American Liberalism
Historian Jonathan Bell chronicles the dramatic story of postwar liberalism in California—moving from early grassroots organizing and the election of Pat Brown as governor in 1958 to the civil rights campaigns of the 1960s and the campaigns against the new right in the 1970s
Making sense of American liberalism
To Strive for Economic and Social Justice”: Welfare, Sexuality, and Liberal Politics in San Francisco in the 1960s
This article explores how liberal politicians like Phil Burton of San Francisco joined with welfare rights lobbyists and bureaucrats to embrace late twntieth-century notions of sexual equality through a broader reconception of economic equality brought about by the expansion of the California welfare state in the early 1960s
Social Politics in a Transoceanic World in the Early Cold War Years
This article argues that those termed ‘liberals’ in the United States had the opportunity in the late 1940s to use overseas case studies to reshape the ramshackle political agenda of the New Deal along more specifically social democratic lines, but that they found it impossible to match interest in the wider world with a concrete programme to overcome tension between left-wing politics and the emerging anti-totalitarianism of the Cold War. The Am…
Making Friends with the Soviets in the Era of Stalin
This book is about more than its title suggests. Although the story of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's role as master statesman cajoling the Soviet government into a grand alliance against Germany and Japan is retold here, it is not the main focus. The central actors in Glantz's carefully researched study are the diplomatic officers and military attachés in Moscow and Washington who conducted the day-to-day running of U.S. relations with the Soviet U…
The American Civil Liberties Union and the Making of Modern Liberalism, 1930-1960
This book is one of a number on the history and politics of the American Civil Liberties Union (aclu) to appear over the last four decades. Judy Kutulas does not claim to have found an original research topic, but she does delineate in detail how anticommunism and a desire to be taken seriously by political authorities in Washington came to overwhelm the national organization's commitment to genuine individual liberty. She also sets out a rich an…
Social Democracy and the Rise of the Democratic Party in California, 1950–1964
In the 1950s the Democratic Party in California grew from a struggling, rump organization into the major political party in the state. This was in large part due to the activities of a network of liberal activists in the California Democratic Council, a group formed in 1953 to encourage the creation of local Democratic ‘clubs’ across California in which those interested in left-of-centre politics could debate issues of the day and campaign for De…
Northern Lights
Changing Harvest Dates in Post-medieval Ireland
During the last three centuries, agricultural writers and other commentators on Irish life frequently criticised Irish farmers for the late date at which they began to harvest both hay and grain. This paper will outline the reasoning behind these criticisms and the defence given by farmers in return. It will be argued that the rationality of common practice is demonstrated by the willingness of farmers to change the dates of harvest once changes …
Changing Harvest Dates in Post-medieval Ireland
During the last three centuries, agricultural writers and other commentators on Irish life frequently criticised Irish farmers for the late date at which they began to harvest both hay and grain. This paper will outline the reasoning behind these criticisms and the defence given by farmers in return. It will be argued that the rationality of common practice is demonstrated by the willingness of farmers to change the dates of harvest once changes …
Miserable Hovels and Substantial Habitations: The Housing of Rural Labourers in Ireland Since the Eighteenth Century
It is a cliché that Irish history is confusing, and this confusion becomes very evident when we try to define the subject of this paper, the Irish rural labourer. In 1849, an exasperated official summarized the difficulty. In Ireland, persons are ‘called landlords, farmers and labourers, but they resemble their English types in little but name’.1 Most of the confusion seems to have arisen from the blurring of categories which occurs in many small…
In Search of a Discourse on Aging: The Elderly on Television
This article analyzes the images of aging presented in five of the prime-time television programs of 1989 most watched by the elderly: Murder, She Wrote, The Golden Girls, Matlock, Jake and the Fatman, and In the Heat of the Night, all of which have central elderly characters. An examination of the title sequences reveals that earlier television stereotypes of the elderly "as more comical, stubborn, eccentric, and foolish than other characters" h…
People and the Land
Críostóir Mac Cárthaigh, People and the Land, Béaloideas, Iml. 60/61, Finscealta Agus Litriocht: Paipeir a cuireadh I lathair ag an Siompoisiam Nordach-Ceiltech / Legends and Fiction: Papers Presented at the Nordic-Celtic Legend Symposium (1992/1993), pp. 326-327
Irish Farming: Implements and Techniques
"Rethinking the "Straight State: Welfare Politics, Health Care, and Public Policy in the Shadow of Aids
Social Politics in a Transoceanic World in the Early Cold War Years
This article argues that those termed ‘liberals’ in the United States had the opportunity in the late 1940s to use overseas case studies to reshape the ramshackle political agenda of the New Deal along more specifically social democratic lines, but that they found it impossible to match interest in the wider world with a concrete programme to overcome tension between left-wing politics and the emerging anti-totalitarianism of the Cold War. The Am…
Using community‐based participatory research to address STI/HIV disparities and social determinants of health among young GBMSM and transgender women of colour in North Carolina, USA
Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and HIV disproportionately affect young persons; gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (GBMSM) and transgender women; persons of colour; and the U.S. South. Complex issues contribute to these high STI/HIV rates. Our community-based participatory research (CBPR) partnership conducted a community-driven needs assessment to inform an intervention addressing STI/HIV disparities and related social det…
To Strive for Economic and Social Justice”: Welfare, Sexuality, and Liberal Politics in San Francisco in the 1960s
This article explores how liberal politicians like Phil Burton of San Francisco joined with welfare rights lobbyists and bureaucrats to embrace late twntieth-century notions of sexual equality through a broader reconception of economic equality brought about by the expansion of the California welfare state in the early 1960s
Evolving national park models: The emergence of an economic imperative and its effect on the contested nature of the ‘national’ park concept in Northern Ireland
Social Democracy and the Rise of the Democratic Party in California, 1950–1964
In the 1950s the Democratic Party in California grew from a struggling, rump organization into the major political party in the state. This was in large part due to the activities of a network of liberal activists in the California Democratic Council, a group formed in 1953 to encourage the creation of local Democratic ‘clubs’ across California in which those interested in left-of-centre politics could debate issues of the day and campaign for De…
Sickles, Hooks, and Scythes in Ireland
The adoption of any agricultural implement has important implications for related farmingmethods. A change from one implement to another can usually be correlated with wide-ranging changes in other cultivation techniques. This article summarizes the evidence for the use, in the past, of sickles, hooks and scythes in Ireland. Most discussion will centre on technical reasons for the relatively late use of the scythe as a grain-cutting implement. Th…
Sickles, Hooks, and Scythes in Ireland
The adoption of any agricultural implement has important implications for related farmingmethods. A change from one implement to another can usually be correlated with wide-ranging changes in other cultivation techniques. This article summarizes the evidence for the use, in the past, of sickles, hooks and scythes in Ireland. Most discussion will centre on technical reasons for the relatively late use of the scythe as a grain-cutting implement. Th…
Last Sheaves, Ancient Cattle, and Protestant Bibles
Irish Farming: Implements and Techniques
In Search of a Discourse on Aging: The Elderly on Television
This article analyzes the images of aging presented in five of the prime-time television programs of 1989 most watched by the elderly: Murder, She Wrote, The Golden Girls, Matlock, Jake and the Fatman, and In the Heat of the Night, all of which have central elderly characters. An examination of the title sequences reveals that earlier television stereotypes of the elderly "as more comical, stubborn, eccentric, and foolish than other characters" h…
People and the Land
Críostóir Mac Cárthaigh, People and the Land, Béaloideas, Iml. 60/61, Finscealta Agus Litriocht: Paipeir a cuireadh I lathair ag an Siompoisiam Nordach-Ceiltech / Legends and Fiction: Papers Presented at the Nordic-Celtic Legend Symposium (1992/1993), pp. 326-327
Miserable Hovels and Substantial Habitations: The Housing of Rural Labourers in Ireland Since the Eighteenth Century
It is a cliché that Irish history is confusing, and this confusion becomes very evident when we try to define the subject of this paper, the Irish rural labourer. In 1849, an exasperated official summarized the difficulty. In Ireland, persons are ‘called landlords, farmers and labourers, but they resemble their English types in little but name’.1 Most of the confusion seems to have arisen from the blurring of categories which occurs in many small…
Changing Harvest Dates in Post-medieval Ireland
During the last three centuries, agricultural writers and other commentators on Irish life frequently criticised Irish farmers for the late date at which they began to harvest both hay and grain. This paper will outline the reasoning behind these criticisms and the defence given by farmers in return. It will be argued that the rationality of common practice is demonstrated by the willingness of farmers to change the dates of harvest once changes …
Changing Harvest Dates in Post-medieval Ireland
During the last three centuries, agricultural writers and other commentators on Irish life frequently criticised Irish farmers for the late date at which they began to harvest both hay and grain. This paper will outline the reasoning behind these criticisms and the defence given by farmers in return. It will be argued that the rationality of common practice is demonstrated by the willingness of farmers to change the dates of harvest once changes …
Northern Lights
Social Democracy and the Rise of the Democratic Party in California, 1950–1964
In the 1950s the Democratic Party in California grew from a struggling, rump organization into the major political party in the state. This was in large part due to the activities of a network of liberal activists in the California Democratic Council, a group formed in 1953 to encourage the creation of local Democratic ‘clubs’ across California in which those interested in left-of-centre politics could debate issues of the day and campaign for De…
The American Civil Liberties Union and the Making of Modern Liberalism, 1930-1960
This book is one of a number on the history and politics of the American Civil Liberties Union (aclu) to appear over the last four decades. Judy Kutulas does not claim to have found an original research topic, but she does delineate in detail how anticommunism and a desire to be taken seriously by political authorities in Washington came to overwhelm the national organization's commitment to genuine individual liberty. She also sets out a rich an…
Making Friends with the Soviets in the Era of Stalin
This book is about more than its title suggests. Although the story of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's role as master statesman cajoling the Soviet government into a grand alliance against Germany and Japan is retold here, it is not the main focus. The central actors in Glantz's carefully researched study are the diplomatic officers and military attachés in Moscow and Washington who conducted the day-to-day running of U.S. relations with the Soviet U…
To Strive for Economic and Social Justice”: Welfare, Sexuality, and Liberal Politics in San Francisco in the 1960s
This article explores how liberal politicians like Phil Burton of San Francisco joined with welfare rights lobbyists and bureaucrats to embrace late twntieth-century notions of sexual equality through a broader reconception of economic equality brought about by the expansion of the California welfare state in the early 1960s
Social Politics in a Transoceanic World in the Early Cold War Years
This article argues that those termed ‘liberals’ in the United States had the opportunity in the late 1940s to use overseas case studies to reshape the ramshackle political agenda of the New Deal along more specifically social democratic lines, but that they found it impossible to match interest in the wider world with a concrete programme to overcome tension between left-wing politics and the emerging anti-totalitarianism of the Cold War. The Am…
California Crucible: The Forging of Modern American Liberalism
Historian Jonathan Bell chronicles the dramatic story of postwar liberalism in California—moving from early grassroots organizing and the election of Pat Brown as governor in 1958 to the civil rights campaigns of the 1960s and the campaigns against the new right in the 1970s
Making sense of American liberalism
Beatrix Hoffman, Health Care for Some: Rights and Rationing in the United States since 1930
Since the publication of Paul Starr's The Social Transformation of American Medicine almost thirty years ago, there have been numerous studies of the evolution of the modern health care system in the United States. Much scholarship has focused on the political impediments to anything approaching universal access to health care since the New Deal. Beatrix Hoffman approaches this well-trodden topic with her own particular angle of vision: health ca…
Thomas W. Devine. Henry Wallace's 1948 Presidential Campaign and the Future of Postwar Liberalism
The year 1948 was a dramatic one in American political history. It marked the first explicit civil rights plank in the Democratic Party platform; the Deep South's resultant break from the party to follow a “Dixiecrat” racist revolt led by South Carolina governor Strom Thurmond; the launch of the Marshall Plan to reconstruct postwar Europe; and the surprise victory of Harry S. Truman in the presidential election that November, suggesting that the …
Evolving national park models: The emergence of an economic imperative and its effect on the contested nature of the ‘national’ park concept in Northern Ireland
The Relocation of VOC-Era Bosheuvel Farm in the Liesbeeck River Valley, Cape Town: A Land Surveying Approach
The article reports on the relocation of Bosheuvel, the most southerly of the original farms granted by the Dutch East India Company (VOC) along the Liesbeeck River in Cape Town between 1657 and 1660. These are represented on Pieter Potter's general plans of 1658 and 1661. An original beacon that is still in use in the current cadastre is identified. This beacon is thought to be the oldest surviving cadastral beacon in South Africa and is worthy …
Lily Geismer. Don’t Blame Us: Suburban Liberals and the Transformation of the Democratic Party
In this exhaustively researched, compelling book, Lily Geismer joins an impressive roster of political historians, notably Lisa McGirr, Matthew D. Lassiter, and Kevin M. Kruse, in using American suburbia as a way of framing important sociopolitical changes in the wake of the rights revolutions of the sixties and after. But whereas other works have highlighted the role of so-called “suburban warriors” in shifting the center of gravity of American …
Daniel E. Dawes, 150 Years of ObamaCare
This is an important book that will come to serve as a key reference work for anyone wishing to understand the process by which the Affordable Care Act came into existence, not to mention the actual contents of the law itself. The title is somewhat misleading, as the book is very much an insider’s account of the events of 2009 and 2010 rather than an in-depth history of health care reform efforts. But it is no less significant for that. The autho…
"Rethinking the "Straight State: Welfare Politics, Health Care, and Public Policy in the Shadow of Aids
Using community‐based participatory research to address STI/HIV disparities and social determinants of health among young GBMSM and transgender women of colour in North Carolina, USA
Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and HIV disproportionately affect young persons; gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (GBMSM) and transgender women; persons of colour; and the U.S. South. Complex issues contribute to these high STI/HIV rates. Our community-based participatory research (CBPR) partnership conducted a community-driven needs assessment to inform an intervention addressing STI/HIV disparities and related social det…
Safety and efficacy of the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine (AZD1222) against Sars-CoV-2: An interim analysis of four randomised controlled trials in Brazil, South Africa, and the UK
Background A safe and efficacious vaccine against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), if deployed with high coverage, could contribute to the control of the COVID-19 pandemic. We evaluated the safety and efficacy of the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine in a pooled interim analysis of four trials. Methods This analysis includes data from four ongoing blinded, randomised, controlled trials done across the UK, Brazil, and South Afri…
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