Duncan Hunter
Biographic Data
| ID | 3856722 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Duncan Hunter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Duncan |
| FAMILY NAME | Hunter |
| SIGNATURE | HUNTER D |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Discourse of Security
Arguments for exception in US security discourse
In his influential State of Exception, Giorgio Agamben proposes that, even in apparently liberal western democracies, the state will routinely use the contingency of national emergency to suspend civil liberties and justify expansion of military and police powers. We investigated rhetorical strategies deployed in the web pages of US security agencies, created or reformed in the aftermath of the 9/11 events, to determine whether they present argum…
The discourse of Olympic security
This article uses a combination of critical discourse analysis (CDA) and corpus linguistics (CL) to investigate the discursive realization of the security operation for the London 2012 Olympic Games. Drawing on Didier Bigo’s (2008) conceptualization of the ‘ban-opticon’, it addresses two questions: (1) What distinctive linguistic features are used in documents relating to security for London 2012? (2) How is Olympic security realized as a discurs…
Citizenship, community, and counter-terrorism
This paper analyses a corpus of UK policy documents which sets out national security policy as an exemplar of the contemporary discourse of counter-terrorism in Europe, the USA and worldwide. A corpus of 148 documents (c. 2.8 million words) was assembled to reflect the security discourse produced by the UK government before and after the 7/7 attacks on the London Transport system. To enable a chronological comparison, the two sub-corpora were def…
Access and Quality of Primary Care for People With Disabilities
This study shows how practice factors, particularly payment type, affect quality and accessibility of primary care for adults with disabilities. The study consisted of: (a) a survey of practice characteristics, including accessibility, accommodations for disabled patients, and payment type; and, (b) a retrospective chart audit for quality of care indicators. The sample consisted of 513 patients within 73 doctors within 47 practices. The study sho…
Accountability in Public Health Units
Translation from Chinese
En étudiant trois différentes traductions anglaises d'un paragraphe d'un texte chinois, on discute de la difficulté pour les traducteurs de fournir un texte qui soit cohérent pour le lecteur et en même temps fidèle au message de l'auteur. On identifie certaines compétences culturelles que les traducteurs présupposent chez leurs lecteurs pour produire un texte à la fois fidèle et cohérent
Public health management
Limitations of Epidemiologically Based Needs Assessment
OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to make epidemiologically based estimates of the prevalent and incident "need" for prostatectomy for lower urinary tract symptoms, defined as the numbers of men who would both benefit from and want the operation. METHODS: The methods involved a consensus panel, a two-stage postal survey of 1,480 men aged 55 years or older from eight general practices to the northwest of London, United Kingdom, and a multistat…
Qualitative Research
Health providers face the problem of trying to make decisions in situations where there is insufficient information and also where there is an overload of (often contradictory) information. Statistical methods such as meta-analysis have been developed to summarise and to resolve inconsistencies in study findings--where information is available in an appropriate form. Consensus methods provide another means of synthesising information, but are lia…
The impact of lower urinary tract symptoms on general health status and on the use of prostatectomy
Urinary symptoms
OBJECTIVE--To measure the prevalence and severity of urinary symptoms among men aged 55 and over in the British population. DESIGN--Cross sectional population survey using a postal questionnaire. SETTING--North West Thames health region. SUBJECTS--1480 men aged 55 years and over randomly selected from 8 general practices. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES--Self reported frequency and severity of urinary symptoms, their bothersomeness and previous prostate su…
Appropriate indications for prostatectomy in the UK--results of a consensus panel
STUDY OBJECTIVE--The use of formal consensus development to determine appropriate indications for prostatectomy and to identify factors underlying clinical decisions about appropriateness is described. DESIGN--A nominal group technique was used. SETTINGS--The study took place in an academic research institution. PARTICIPANTS--The panel consisted of six urologists and three general practitioners. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS--The panel identified…
Ethnicity, morbidity and health service utilization in two labrador communities
The discourse of Olympic security
This article uses a combination of critical discourse analysis (CDA) and corpus linguistics (CL) to investigate the discursive realization of the security operation for the London 2012 Olympic Games. Drawing on Didier Bigo’s (2008) conceptualization of the ‘ban-opticon’, it addresses two questions: (1) What distinctive linguistic features are used in documents relating to security for London 2012? (2) How is Olympic security realized as a discurs…
Ethnicity, morbidity and health service utilization in two labrador communities
Appropriate indications for prostatectomy in the UK--results of a consensus panel
STUDY OBJECTIVE--The use of formal consensus development to determine appropriate indications for prostatectomy and to identify factors underlying clinical decisions about appropriateness is described. DESIGN--A nominal group technique was used. SETTINGS--The study took place in an academic research institution. PARTICIPANTS--The panel consisted of six urologists and three general practitioners. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS--The panel identified…
Citizenship, community, and counter-terrorism
This paper analyses a corpus of UK policy documents which sets out national security policy as an exemplar of the contemporary discourse of counter-terrorism in Europe, the USA and worldwide. A corpus of 148 documents (c. 2.8 million words) was assembled to reflect the security discourse produced by the UK government before and after the 7/7 attacks on the London Transport system. To enable a chronological comparison, the two sub-corpora were def…
Urinary symptoms
OBJECTIVE--To measure the prevalence and severity of urinary symptoms among men aged 55 and over in the British population. DESIGN--Cross sectional population survey using a postal questionnaire. SETTING--North West Thames health region. SUBJECTS--1480 men aged 55 years and over randomly selected from 8 general practices. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES--Self reported frequency and severity of urinary symptoms, their bothersomeness and previous prostate su…
Accountability in Public Health Units
Arguments for exception in US security discourse
In his influential State of Exception, Giorgio Agamben proposes that, even in apparently liberal western democracies, the state will routinely use the contingency of national emergency to suspend civil liberties and justify expansion of military and police powers. We investigated rhetorical strategies deployed in the web pages of US security agencies, created or reformed in the aftermath of the 9/11 events, to determine whether they present argum…
Ethnicity, morbidity and health service utilization in two labrador communities
Urinary symptoms
OBJECTIVE--To measure the prevalence and severity of urinary symptoms among men aged 55 and over in the British population. DESIGN--Cross sectional population survey using a postal questionnaire. SETTING--North West Thames health region. SUBJECTS--1480 men aged 55 years and over randomly selected from 8 general practices. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES--Self reported frequency and severity of urinary symptoms, their bothersomeness and previous prostate su…
Appropriate indications for prostatectomy in the UK--results of a consensus panel
STUDY OBJECTIVE--The use of formal consensus development to determine appropriate indications for prostatectomy and to identify factors underlying clinical decisions about appropriateness is described. DESIGN--A nominal group technique was used. SETTINGS--The study took place in an academic research institution. PARTICIPANTS--The panel consisted of six urologists and three general practitioners. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS--The panel identified…
Qualitative Research
Health providers face the problem of trying to make decisions in situations where there is insufficient information and also where there is an overload of (often contradictory) information. Statistical methods such as meta-analysis have been developed to summarise and to resolve inconsistencies in study findings--where information is available in an appropriate form. Consensus methods provide another means of synthesising information, but are lia…
The impact of lower urinary tract symptoms on general health status and on the use of prostatectomy
Limitations of Epidemiologically Based Needs Assessment
OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to make epidemiologically based estimates of the prevalent and incident "need" for prostatectomy for lower urinary tract symptoms, defined as the numbers of men who would both benefit from and want the operation. METHODS: The methods involved a consensus panel, a two-stage postal survey of 1,480 men aged 55 years or older from eight general practices to the northwest of London, United Kingdom, and a multistat…
Public health management
Translation from Chinese
En étudiant trois différentes traductions anglaises d'un paragraphe d'un texte chinois, on discute de la difficulté pour les traducteurs de fournir un texte qui soit cohérent pour le lecteur et en même temps fidèle au message de l'auteur. On identifie certaines compétences culturelles que les traducteurs présupposent chez leurs lecteurs pour produire un texte à la fois fidèle et cohérent
Accountability in Public Health Units
Access and Quality of Primary Care for People With Disabilities
This study shows how practice factors, particularly payment type, affect quality and accessibility of primary care for adults with disabilities. The study consisted of: (a) a survey of practice characteristics, including accessibility, accommodations for disabled patients, and payment type; and, (b) a retrospective chart audit for quality of care indicators. The sample consisted of 513 patients within 73 doctors within 47 practices. The study sho…
The discourse of Olympic security
This article uses a combination of critical discourse analysis (CDA) and corpus linguistics (CL) to investigate the discursive realization of the security operation for the London 2012 Olympic Games. Drawing on Didier Bigo’s (2008) conceptualization of the ‘ban-opticon’, it addresses two questions: (1) What distinctive linguistic features are used in documents relating to security for London 2012? (2) How is Olympic security realized as a discurs…
Citizenship, community, and counter-terrorism
This paper analyses a corpus of UK policy documents which sets out national security policy as an exemplar of the contemporary discourse of counter-terrorism in Europe, the USA and worldwide. A corpus of 148 documents (c. 2.8 million words) was assembled to reflect the security discourse produced by the UK government before and after the 7/7 attacks on the London Transport system. To enable a chronological comparison, the two sub-corpora were def…
Arguments for exception in US security discourse
In his influential State of Exception, Giorgio Agamben proposes that, even in apparently liberal western democracies, the state will routinely use the contingency of national emergency to suspend civil liberties and justify expansion of military and police powers. We investigated rhetorical strategies deployed in the web pages of US security agencies, created or reformed in the aftermath of the 9/11 events, to determine whether they present argum…
The Discourse of Security
Medicine (8 works) · Political science (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Urinary Bladder and Prostate Research (4 works) · Discourse analysis (3 works)