Brian Woods
Biographic Data
| ID | 6554591 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brian Woods |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brian |
| FAMILY NAME | Woods |
| SIGNATURE | WOODS B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Glasgow |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 114 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Big Science and Collective Research
Although “big science” is a rather nebulous term, most commentators have used it to describe an array of perceived changes in science and scientific practice during and after World War II. Following Alvin Weinberg's Reflections on Big Science (1967), the term has often been associated with the rise of a military–industrial–government–academic complex, the use/production of huge machines, the investment of massive resources, and the growth of larg…
Military Research and Science and War
The relationship between science, technology, and war has a long history. Studies of catapults, for example, have highlighted the important role of science and technology in ancient society and in ancient warfare. The rise of advanced catapults not only attracted the interest and financial support of “governments,” but also combined early studies of geometry, physics, and technology, and led to the rise in the visibility and status of the enginee…
Political Economy of Science
Science has never been at the forefront of political economy and usually only appears as an “exogenous shock,” or is suppressed by an assumption within the theory of the firm of a given stock of scientific and/or technological knowledge, from which firms make their choices and then employ them in producing a given volume of output. Nonetheless, some theorists and empiricists have explored (in very broad terms) the role of science and technology i…
Experiencing Food Allergy and Food Intolerance: An Analysis of Lay Accounts
This article offers an analysis of 28 lay accounts of the experience of living with either food allergy or food intolerance in England. We structure the presentation of our data in terms of Mike Bury's three types of narrative form - contingent, moral and core. We suggest that people with food allergies at risk of acute, severe and potentially fatal symptoms on exposure to allergens find their condition to be less socially problematic than do tho…
Testing for Food Intolerance: New Markets in the Age of Biocapital
Food allergy and food intolerance: Towards a Sociological Agenda
This article asks what sociological insights an analysis of food allergy and food intolerance might afford. We outline the parameters of debates around food allergy and food intolerance in the immunological, clinical and epidemiological literatures in order to identify analytic strands which might illuminate our sociological understanding of the supposed increase in both. Food allergy and food intolerance are contested and contingent terms and it…
A Political History of Nasa's Space Shuttle: The Development Years, 1972-1982
No Wheelchairs Beyond this Point: A Historical Examination of Wheelchair Access in the Twentieth Century in Britain and America
On the surface, the wheelchair appears a simple machine: its function seemingly apparent and its workings relatively uncomplicated. Yet, despite this apparent simplicity, the wheelchair is a complex artefact imbued with a myriad of social as well as technical relations that act simultaneously to exclude and include, confine and liberate, shape and be shaped. The wheelchair's inextricable links to injury and illness have certainly shaped its defin…
The Origins and Early Developments of Special/Adaptive Wheelchair Seating
The design and use of wheelchairs significantly changed during the last half of the twentieth century, enabling greater mobility, independence, and social inclusion for the user. Among many innovations was the development of special or adaptive seating. Emerging in the last quarter of the century from a multifaceted and multidirectional movement, special or adaptive seating transformed wheelchairs from simple mobility tools into postural aids. Th…
In Pursuit of Standardization: The British Ministry of Healthis Model 8F Wheelchair, 1948-1962
As Brian Woods and Nick Watson note, for millions of people the wheelchair has been a significant site of technological innovation over the last hundred years, yet few historians or sociologists have paid it much attention. With "In Pursuit of Standardization: The British Ministry of Health's Model 8F Wheelchair, 1948-1962, "Woods and Watson aim to rectify that situation, at least in part. The article surveys "the effects of the interplay between…
Explaining Change in Policy Subsystems: Analysis of Coalition Stability and Defection over Time
The focus of this paper is on the processes by which change occurs in the structure and membership of policy subsystem coalitions. Employing longitudinal data derived from content analysis of congressional hearings, we examine expressed policy beliefs of organizational elites in the highly charged policy debate waged over outer continental shelf energy leasing from 1969 to 1987. Using the stated policy positions of representatives of organization…
Explaining Change in Policy Subsystems: Analysis of Coalition Stability and Defection over Time
The focus of this paper is on the processes by which change occurs in the structure and membership of policy subsystem coalitions. Employing longitudinal data derived from content analysis of congressional hearings, we examine expressed policy beliefs of organizational elites in the highly charged policy debate waged over outer continental shelf energy leasing from 1969 to 1987. Using the stated policy positions of representatives of organization…
Experiencing Food Allergy and Food Intolerance: An Analysis of Lay Accounts
This article offers an analysis of 28 lay accounts of the experience of living with either food allergy or food intolerance in England. We structure the presentation of our data in terms of Mike Bury's three types of narrative form - contingent, moral and core. We suggest that people with food allergies at risk of acute, severe and potentially fatal symptoms on exposure to allergens find their condition to be less socially problematic than do tho…
Food allergy and food intolerance: Towards a Sociological Agenda
This article asks what sociological insights an analysis of food allergy and food intolerance might afford. We outline the parameters of debates around food allergy and food intolerance in the immunological, clinical and epidemiological literatures in order to identify analytic strands which might illuminate our sociological understanding of the supposed increase in both. Food allergy and food intolerance are contested and contingent terms and it…
The Origins and Early Developments of Special/Adaptive Wheelchair Seating
The design and use of wheelchairs significantly changed during the last half of the twentieth century, enabling greater mobility, independence, and social inclusion for the user. Among many innovations was the development of special or adaptive seating. Emerging in the last quarter of the century from a multifaceted and multidirectional movement, special or adaptive seating transformed wheelchairs from simple mobility tools into postural aids. Th…
No Wheelchairs Beyond this Point: A Historical Examination of Wheelchair Access in the Twentieth Century in Britain and America
On the surface, the wheelchair appears a simple machine: its function seemingly apparent and its workings relatively uncomplicated. Yet, despite this apparent simplicity, the wheelchair is a complex artefact imbued with a myriad of social as well as technical relations that act simultaneously to exclude and include, confine and liberate, shape and be shaped. The wheelchair's inextricable links to injury and illness have certainly shaped its defin…
In Pursuit of Standardization: The British Ministry of Healthis Model 8F Wheelchair, 1948-1962
As Brian Woods and Nick Watson note, for millions of people the wheelchair has been a significant site of technological innovation over the last hundred years, yet few historians or sociologists have paid it much attention. With "In Pursuit of Standardization: The British Ministry of Health's Model 8F Wheelchair, 1948-1962, "Woods and Watson aim to rectify that situation, at least in part. The article surveys "the effects of the interplay between…
Explaining Change in Policy Subsystems: Analysis of Coalition Stability and Defection over Time
The focus of this paper is on the processes by which change occurs in the structure and membership of policy subsystem coalitions. Employing longitudinal data derived from content analysis of congressional hearings, we examine expressed policy beliefs of organizational elites in the highly charged policy debate waged over outer continental shelf energy leasing from 1969 to 1987. Using the stated policy positions of representatives of organization…
In Pursuit of Standardization: The British Ministry of Healthis Model 8F Wheelchair, 1948-1962
As Brian Woods and Nick Watson note, for millions of people the wheelchair has been a significant site of technological innovation over the last hundred years, yet few historians or sociologists have paid it much attention. With "In Pursuit of Standardization: The British Ministry of Health's Model 8F Wheelchair, 1948-1962, "Woods and Watson aim to rectify that situation, at least in part. The article surveys "the effects of the interplay between…
No Wheelchairs Beyond this Point: A Historical Examination of Wheelchair Access in the Twentieth Century in Britain and America
On the surface, the wheelchair appears a simple machine: its function seemingly apparent and its workings relatively uncomplicated. Yet, despite this apparent simplicity, the wheelchair is a complex artefact imbued with a myriad of social as well as technical relations that act simultaneously to exclude and include, confine and liberate, shape and be shaped. The wheelchair's inextricable links to injury and illness have certainly shaped its defin…
The Origins and Early Developments of Special/Adaptive Wheelchair Seating
The design and use of wheelchairs significantly changed during the last half of the twentieth century, enabling greater mobility, independence, and social inclusion for the user. Among many innovations was the development of special or adaptive seating. Emerging in the last quarter of the century from a multifaceted and multidirectional movement, special or adaptive seating transformed wheelchairs from simple mobility tools into postural aids. Th…
Testing for Food Intolerance: New Markets in the Age of Biocapital
Food allergy and food intolerance: Towards a Sociological Agenda
This article asks what sociological insights an analysis of food allergy and food intolerance might afford. We outline the parameters of debates around food allergy and food intolerance in the immunological, clinical and epidemiological literatures in order to identify analytic strands which might illuminate our sociological understanding of the supposed increase in both. Food allergy and food intolerance are contested and contingent terms and it…
A Political History of Nasa's Space Shuttle: The Development Years, 1972-1982
Experiencing Food Allergy and Food Intolerance: An Analysis of Lay Accounts
This article offers an analysis of 28 lay accounts of the experience of living with either food allergy or food intolerance in England. We structure the presentation of our data in terms of Mike Bury's three types of narrative form - contingent, moral and core. We suggest that people with food allergies at risk of acute, severe and potentially fatal symptoms on exposure to allergens find their condition to be less socially problematic than do tho…
Big Science and Collective Research
Although “big science” is a rather nebulous term, most commentators have used it to describe an array of perceived changes in science and scientific practice during and after World War II. Following Alvin Weinberg's Reflections on Big Science (1967), the term has often been associated with the rise of a military–industrial–government–academic complex, the use/production of huge machines, the investment of massive resources, and the growth of larg…
Military Research and Science and War
The relationship between science, technology, and war has a long history. Studies of catapults, for example, have highlighted the important role of science and technology in ancient society and in ancient warfare. The rise of advanced catapults not only attracted the interest and financial support of “governments,” but also combined early studies of geometry, physics, and technology, and led to the rise in the visibility and status of the enginee…
Political Economy of Science
Science has never been at the forefront of political economy and usually only appears as an “exogenous shock,” or is suppressed by an assumption within the theory of the firm of a given stock of scientific and/or technological knowledge, from which firms make their choices and then employ them in producing a given volume of output. Nonetheless, some theorists and empiricists have explored (in very broad terms) the role of science and technology i…
Political science (7 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Wheelchair (3 works) · Allergy (2 works) · Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies (2 works) · Computer security (2 works)