Janet Weston
Biographic Data
| ID | 3803214 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Janet Weston |
| GIVEN NAMES | Janet |
| FAMILY NAME | Weston |
| SIGNATURE | WESTON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5154-5049 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Teaching public health humanities
This article offers a comprehensive definition and illustration of the field of public health humanities. Ranging across the disciplines and educational settings of seven different scholar-educators, it offers a clear and detailed discussion of this often-overlooked branch of the wider health humanities, with a focus on teaching. Public health humanities brings the theories, methods and resources of arts and humanities disciplines into conversati…
Legal mobilization and anti‐fluoridation campaigning in post‐war Britain
The fluoridation of public water supplies to improve dental health is often cited as an example of an ‘intractable controversy’ in public health, reflecting deeply held principles about rights and the public sphere. This article examines legal mobilization to prevent fluoridation in Britain, from the first pilot studies in the mid‐1950s through to McColl v. Strathclyde in 1983 and the subsequent Water (Fluoridation) Act 1985. I argue that efforts…
History in Public
This introductory piece explains the choice of public history as a focus for this special issue of History , and its emphasis on the work of early‐career historians. ‘Public history’ is a notoriously nebulous concept. We outline some of the most common ways in which it is understood, and discuss why we believe that its methods and approaches are of enormous value to all those involved in historical work, whether they would consider themselves to …
Managing mental incapacity in the 20th century
This article explores the history of the Court of Protection of England & Wales (CoP) over the twentieth century. The CoP, which is responsible for making financial and welfare decisions on behalf of those deemed incapable of doing so themselves, presently faces a rapidly growing caseload, and considerable scrutiny and critique. Such close attention to its work may be new, but many of the issues it faces have deep roots. Using practitioners' text…
Sites of Sickness, Sites of Rights? HIV/Aids and the limits of human rights in British prisons
This article considers one specific strand of discussion around HIV/AIDS, in order to think about the uses and limitations of human rights discourse in late twentieth century Britain. HIV/AIDS presented particular problems for prisons, which were initially presented as breeding grounds of infection. This shifted with the rise of human rights language and laws in the 1990s, but talk of rights for prisoners was not as comfortable a fit as talk of e…
Oral Histories, Public Engagement and the Making of Positive in Prison
How might creative practices surrounding oral history contribute to public engagement and to historical research itself? These questions are considered here through a reflective account of the making of the audio drama Positive in Prison: HIV Stories from a Dublin Jail. Positive in Prison is based on oral histories of HIV/AIDS in the Republic of Ireland, gathered in 2016-17 as part of the Wellcome Trust-funded project 'Prisons, Medical Care and E…
Aids Inside and Out
As HIV/AIDS emerged in the 1980s as a new and seemingly overwhelming public health challenge, prisons were highlighted as an important location for the control of the epidemic. Yet, they often seemed unwilling or unable to adopt national guidelines. This article compares the policy decisions made by the prison services of the Republic of Ireland and England & Wales in response to HIV/AIDS in the 1980s and 1990s, bringing together the histories of…
Birgit Lang, Joy Damousi and Alison Lewis, A History of the Case Study
A History of the Case Study is something of a sequel to the 2015 collection, Case Studies and Dissemination of Knowledge. As the late John Forrester wrote in his Foreword to that earlier book, the decades from the 1850s onwards saw a ‘configuration—of new technologies, of new ways of being an individual, of new professional missions, of new scientific programs’ which ‘undoubtedly contributed to the golden age of case writing’.1 Case studies becam…
Sexual Crimes, Medical Cures
This article traces the evolution of forensic psychiatry in England over the first half of the twentieth century, and the growing interest within this new field in sexual offenders. Taking as its focus the little-studied field of prison medicine, it explores the role of prison doctors in promoting the idea that crime was often indicative of psychological illness, and that sexual offenders in particular were profitable candidates for medical exami…
History in Public
This introductory piece explains the choice of public history as a focus for this special issue of History , and its emphasis on the work of early‐career historians. ‘Public history’ is a notoriously nebulous concept. We outline some of the most common ways in which it is understood, and discuss why we believe that its methods and approaches are of enormous value to all those involved in historical work, whether they would consider themselves to …
Sites of Sickness, Sites of Rights? HIV/Aids and the limits of human rights in British prisons
This article considers one specific strand of discussion around HIV/AIDS, in order to think about the uses and limitations of human rights discourse in late twentieth century Britain. HIV/AIDS presented particular problems for prisons, which were initially presented as breeding grounds of infection. This shifted with the rise of human rights language and laws in the 1990s, but talk of rights for prisoners was not as comfortable a fit as talk of e…
Aids Inside and Out
As HIV/AIDS emerged in the 1980s as a new and seemingly overwhelming public health challenge, prisons were highlighted as an important location for the control of the epidemic. Yet, they often seemed unwilling or unable to adopt national guidelines. This article compares the policy decisions made by the prison services of the Republic of Ireland and England & Wales in response to HIV/AIDS in the 1980s and 1990s, bringing together the histories of…
Sexual Crimes, Medical Cures
This article traces the evolution of forensic psychiatry in England over the first half of the twentieth century, and the growing interest within this new field in sexual offenders. Taking as its focus the little-studied field of prison medicine, it explores the role of prison doctors in promoting the idea that crime was often indicative of psychological illness, and that sexual offenders in particular were profitable candidates for medical exami…
Aids Inside and Out
As HIV/AIDS emerged in the 1980s as a new and seemingly overwhelming public health challenge, prisons were highlighted as an important location for the control of the epidemic. Yet, they often seemed unwilling or unable to adopt national guidelines. This article compares the policy decisions made by the prison services of the Republic of Ireland and England & Wales in response to HIV/AIDS in the 1980s and 1990s, bringing together the histories of…
Birgit Lang, Joy Damousi and Alison Lewis, A History of the Case Study
A History of the Case Study is something of a sequel to the 2015 collection, Case Studies and Dissemination of Knowledge. As the late John Forrester wrote in his Foreword to that earlier book, the decades from the 1850s onwards saw a ‘configuration—of new technologies, of new ways of being an individual, of new professional missions, of new scientific programs’ which ‘undoubtedly contributed to the golden age of case writing’.1 Case studies becam…
Sites of Sickness, Sites of Rights? HIV/Aids and the limits of human rights in British prisons
This article considers one specific strand of discussion around HIV/AIDS, in order to think about the uses and limitations of human rights discourse in late twentieth century Britain. HIV/AIDS presented particular problems for prisons, which were initially presented as breeding grounds of infection. This shifted with the rise of human rights language and laws in the 1990s, but talk of rights for prisoners was not as comfortable a fit as talk of e…
Oral Histories, Public Engagement and the Making of Positive in Prison
How might creative practices surrounding oral history contribute to public engagement and to historical research itself? These questions are considered here through a reflective account of the making of the audio drama Positive in Prison: HIV Stories from a Dublin Jail. Positive in Prison is based on oral histories of HIV/AIDS in the Republic of Ireland, gathered in 2016-17 as part of the Wellcome Trust-funded project 'Prisons, Medical Care and E…
Managing mental incapacity in the 20th century
This article explores the history of the Court of Protection of England & Wales (CoP) over the twentieth century. The CoP, which is responsible for making financial and welfare decisions on behalf of those deemed incapable of doing so themselves, presently faces a rapidly growing caseload, and considerable scrutiny and critique. Such close attention to its work may be new, but many of the issues it faces have deep roots. Using practitioners' text…
History in Public
This introductory piece explains the choice of public history as a focus for this special issue of History , and its emphasis on the work of early‐career historians. ‘Public history’ is a notoriously nebulous concept. We outline some of the most common ways in which it is understood, and discuss why we believe that its methods and approaches are of enormous value to all those involved in historical work, whether they would consider themselves to …
Teaching public health humanities
This article offers a comprehensive definition and illustration of the field of public health humanities. Ranging across the disciplines and educational settings of seven different scholar-educators, it offers a clear and detailed discussion of this often-overlooked branch of the wider health humanities, with a focus on teaching. Public health humanities brings the theories, methods and resources of arts and humanities disciplines into conversati…
Legal mobilization and anti‐fluoridation campaigning in post‐war Britain
The fluoridation of public water supplies to improve dental health is often cited as an example of an ‘intractable controversy’ in public health, reflecting deeply held principles about rights and the public sphere. This article examines legal mobilization to prevent fluoridation in Britain, from the first pilot studies in the mid‐1950s through to McColl v. Strathclyde in 1983 and the subsequent Water (Fluoridation) Act 1985. I argue that efforts…
Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Criminology (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Prison (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Public health (3 works)