R Bivins
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 54159 |
|---|---|
| NOME | R Bivins |
| PRENOMES | R |
| SOBRENOME | Bivins |
| ASSINATURA | BIVINS R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Warwick |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8714-7819 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1999 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Forgone, Not Forgotten
DNA profiling has become a culturally ubiquitous technology. Its use, whether in forensic investigations, genetic databases, biomedical research, international border-making, or popular genealogy, has been familiarized through political debates, media and cultural representations and commercialization. DNA profiling has also attracted considerable scholarly attention across this terrain. However, scant attention has been paid to the key role play…
Pilot Programs and Postcolonial Pivots
Developed in Britain and the United States in the 1980s, genetic profiling has since become a global technology. Today, it is widely regarded as the evidentiary 'gold standard' in individual and forensic identification. However, its origins as a technology of post-empire at Britain's externalized borders in South Asia have remained unexamined. This article will argue that the first state-sanctioned use of 'DNA fingerprints,' a pilot program explo…
Commentary
It is something of a cliché to speak of Britain as having been transformed by the traumas of World War II and by its aftermath. From the advent of the 'cradle to grave' Welfare State to the end of (formal) empire, the effects of total war were enduring. Typically, they have been explored in relation to demographic, socioeconomic, technological and geopolitical trends and events. Yet as the articles in this volume observe across a variety of examp…
Fit to Practice
Reviewed by: Fit to Practice: Empire, Race, Gender, and the Making of British Medicine, 1850–1980 by Douglas M. Haynes Roberta Bivins Douglas M. Haynes. Fit to Practice: Empire, Race, Gender, and the Making of British Medicine, 1850–1980. Rochester Studies in Medical History. Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2017. x + 246 pp. $99.00 (978-1-58046-581-6). There is much of value in Douglas Haynes's latest monograph, not least his demo…
Weighing on us all? Quantification and cultural responses to obesity in NHS Britain
How do cultures of self-quantification intersect with the modern state, particularly in relation to medical provision and health promotion? Here I explore the ways in which British practices and representations of body weight and weight management ignored or interacted with the National Health Service between 1948 and 2004. Through the lens of overweight, I examine health citizenship in the context of universal health provision funded from genera…
Picturing Race in the British National Health Service, 1948-1988
In 1970, Harold Evans, the respected editor of Britain’s best-selling Sunday broadsheet the Sunday Times from 1967 to 1981, roundly reproached his fellow journalists for their reporting of ‘race’. Writing for the resolutely middle-brow The Listener magazine (published from 1929 to 1991 by the British Broadcasting Corporation [BBC] since 1929 to accompany and amplify the national broadcaster’s educational and cultural mission), Evans asserted that…
Weighting for Health
Histories of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century medicine emphasise the rise of professional and scientific authority, and suggest a decline in domestic health initiatives. Exploring the example of weight management in Britain, we argue that domestic agency persisted and that new regimes of measurement and weighing were adapted to personal and familial preferences as they entered the household. Drawing on print sources and objects rangin…
Histories of Medicine in the Household
Introducing the essays in this special issue on medicine in the household, Bivins, Marland and Tomes briefly sketch the existing historiography and argue for the enduring importance of the household as a site of medical decision making and practice. The household as explored by this collection also offers a valuable space within which to test new methodologies addressing the challenges that face historians and other scholars seeking to trace the …
Ideology and disease identity
How can we assess the reciprocal impacts of politics and medicine in the contemporary period? Using the example of rickets in twentieth century Britain, I will explore the ways in which a preventable, curable non-infectious disease came to have enormous political significance, first as a symbol of socioeconomic inequality, then as evidence of racial and ethnic health disparities. Between the 1920s and 1980s, clinicians, researchers, health worker…
Imagining Acupuncture
While an increasing number of studies have now examined the textual transmission of medical knowledge from one culture to another, less work has been done on the role and impact of medical images and image-making in knowledge transmission and reception. Here, drawing on the example of acupuncture, I assess the ‘translation’ of images, their adaptation in response to the visual norms and medical politics of the receiving culture, and their endurin…
Coming 'Home' to (post)Colonial Medicine
While investment and popular enthusiasm have fuelled significant growth in the history of medicine since the 1980s, it remains by some metrics well outside of the historical mainstream. Yet developments in the history of medicine could offer traction to historians more generally. Through its close critical attention to power, embodiment and hegemonic institutions and knowledges, the history of medicine also presents a unique perspective from whic…
The English Disease" or "Asian Rickets"? Medical Responses to Postcolonial Immigration
Do the former colonizing powers, like their former colonies, have "postcolonial medicine," and if so, where does it take place, who practices it, and upon whom? How has British medicine in particular responded to the huge cultural shifts represented by the rise of the New Commonwealth and associated postcolonial immigration? I address these questions through a case study of the medical and political responses to vitamin D deficiency among Britain…
Colonial Pathologies
Reviewed by: Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Philippines, and: The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health, and Racial Destiny in Australia Roberta Bivins (bio) Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Philippines. By Warwick Anderson . Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2006. Pp ix+355. $23.95. The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health, and Racial Destiny in Aus…
The People Have No More Love Left for the Commonwealth”
In the last days of 1961, with a Conservative government gingerly guiding highly controversial immigration restrictions through Britain's Parliament, another unwanted immigrant to the UK suddenly made its presence felt: smallpox. Media reportage, in both Pakistan and Britain, immediately intertwined legislation and outbreak. This article explores the interplay between these two sets of events, and their mutual impact on public, political, and med…
The Missionary’s Egg
Chinese Medicine in Contemporary China
Volker Scheid offers a rich, clear, and detailed account of contemporary Chinese medicine as intrinsically pluralistic and dispersed, dynamic and local. Drawing upon eighteen months of field research, ethnographic observation of more than four thousand clinical encounters, and his own experience as a practitioner of Chinese medicine, Scheid argues for an interpretive stance that takes pluralism in medicine as an object of research in its own righ…
Expectations and Expertise
Dans ce papier, l'auteur explore la reponse anglaise face aux pretentions chinoises en matiere de competences medicales. Les rencontres entre les membres de la mission Macartney et leurs homologues chinois furent vitales ; les compte-rendus de la Chine qui en resulterent, ont largement influence la formation de la politique britannique et des opinions populaires sur la Chine au 19e siecle
Picturing Race in the British National Health Service, 1948-1988
In 1970, Harold Evans, the respected editor of Britain’s best-selling Sunday broadsheet the Sunday Times from 1967 to 1981, roundly reproached his fellow journalists for their reporting of ‘race’. Writing for the resolutely middle-brow The Listener magazine (published from 1929 to 1991 by the British Broadcasting Corporation [BBC] since 1929 to accompany and amplify the national broadcaster’s educational and cultural mission), Evans asserted that…
Weighting for Health
Histories of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century medicine emphasise the rise of professional and scientific authority, and suggest a decline in domestic health initiatives. Exploring the example of weight management in Britain, we argue that domestic agency persisted and that new regimes of measurement and weighing were adapted to personal and familial preferences as they entered the household. Drawing on print sources and objects rangin…
Weighing on us all? Quantification and cultural responses to obesity in NHS Britain
How do cultures of self-quantification intersect with the modern state, particularly in relation to medical provision and health promotion? Here I explore the ways in which British practices and representations of body weight and weight management ignored or interacted with the National Health Service between 1948 and 2004. Through the lens of overweight, I examine health citizenship in the context of universal health provision funded from genera…
Coming 'Home' to (post)Colonial Medicine
While investment and popular enthusiasm have fuelled significant growth in the history of medicine since the 1980s, it remains by some metrics well outside of the historical mainstream. Yet developments in the history of medicine could offer traction to historians more generally. Through its close critical attention to power, embodiment and hegemonic institutions and knowledges, the history of medicine also presents a unique perspective from whic…
Expectations and Expertise
Dans ce papier, l'auteur explore la reponse anglaise face aux pretentions chinoises en matiere de competences medicales. Les rencontres entre les membres de la mission Macartney et leurs homologues chinois furent vitales ; les compte-rendus de la Chine qui en resulterent, ont largement influence la formation de la politique britannique et des opinions populaires sur la Chine au 19e siecle
Ideology and disease identity
How can we assess the reciprocal impacts of politics and medicine in the contemporary period? Using the example of rickets in twentieth century Britain, I will explore the ways in which a preventable, curable non-infectious disease came to have enormous political significance, first as a symbol of socioeconomic inequality, then as evidence of racial and ethnic health disparities. Between the 1920s and 1980s, clinicians, researchers, health worker…
The People Have No More Love Left for the Commonwealth”
In the last days of 1961, with a Conservative government gingerly guiding highly controversial immigration restrictions through Britain's Parliament, another unwanted immigrant to the UK suddenly made its presence felt: smallpox. Media reportage, in both Pakistan and Britain, immediately intertwined legislation and outbreak. This article explores the interplay between these two sets of events, and their mutual impact on public, political, and med…
Expectations and Expertise
Dans ce papier, l'auteur explore la reponse anglaise face aux pretentions chinoises en matiere de competences medicales. Les rencontres entre les membres de la mission Macartney et leurs homologues chinois furent vitales ; les compte-rendus de la Chine qui en resulterent, ont largement influence la formation de la politique britannique et des opinions populaires sur la Chine au 19e siecle
Chinese Medicine in Contemporary China
Volker Scheid offers a rich, clear, and detailed account of contemporary Chinese medicine as intrinsically pluralistic and dispersed, dynamic and local. Drawing upon eighteen months of field research, ethnographic observation of more than four thousand clinical encounters, and his own experience as a practitioner of Chinese medicine, Scheid argues for an interpretive stance that takes pluralism in medicine as an object of research in its own righ…
The Missionary’s Egg
The English Disease" or "Asian Rickets"? Medical Responses to Postcolonial Immigration
Do the former colonizing powers, like their former colonies, have "postcolonial medicine," and if so, where does it take place, who practices it, and upon whom? How has British medicine in particular responded to the huge cultural shifts represented by the rise of the New Commonwealth and associated postcolonial immigration? I address these questions through a case study of the medical and political responses to vitamin D deficiency among Britain…
Colonial Pathologies
Reviewed by: Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Philippines, and: The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health, and Racial Destiny in Australia Roberta Bivins (bio) Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Philippines. By Warwick Anderson . Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2006. Pp ix+355. $23.95. The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health, and Racial Destiny in Aus…
The People Have No More Love Left for the Commonwealth”
In the last days of 1961, with a Conservative government gingerly guiding highly controversial immigration restrictions through Britain's Parliament, another unwanted immigrant to the UK suddenly made its presence felt: smallpox. Media reportage, in both Pakistan and Britain, immediately intertwined legislation and outbreak. This article explores the interplay between these two sets of events, and their mutual impact on public, political, and med…
Imagining Acupuncture
While an increasing number of studies have now examined the textual transmission of medical knowledge from one culture to another, less work has been done on the role and impact of medical images and image-making in knowledge transmission and reception. Here, drawing on the example of acupuncture, I assess the ‘translation’ of images, their adaptation in response to the visual norms and medical politics of the receiving culture, and their endurin…
Coming 'Home' to (post)Colonial Medicine
While investment and popular enthusiasm have fuelled significant growth in the history of medicine since the 1980s, it remains by some metrics well outside of the historical mainstream. Yet developments in the history of medicine could offer traction to historians more generally. Through its close critical attention to power, embodiment and hegemonic institutions and knowledges, the history of medicine also presents a unique perspective from whic…
Ideology and disease identity
How can we assess the reciprocal impacts of politics and medicine in the contemporary period? Using the example of rickets in twentieth century Britain, I will explore the ways in which a preventable, curable non-infectious disease came to have enormous political significance, first as a symbol of socioeconomic inequality, then as evidence of racial and ethnic health disparities. Between the 1920s and 1980s, clinicians, researchers, health worker…
Picturing Race in the British National Health Service, 1948-1988
In 1970, Harold Evans, the respected editor of Britain’s best-selling Sunday broadsheet the Sunday Times from 1967 to 1981, roundly reproached his fellow journalists for their reporting of ‘race’. Writing for the resolutely middle-brow The Listener magazine (published from 1929 to 1991 by the British Broadcasting Corporation [BBC] since 1929 to accompany and amplify the national broadcaster’s educational and cultural mission), Evans asserted that…
Weighting for Health
Histories of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century medicine emphasise the rise of professional and scientific authority, and suggest a decline in domestic health initiatives. Exploring the example of weight management in Britain, we argue that domestic agency persisted and that new regimes of measurement and weighing were adapted to personal and familial preferences as they entered the household. Drawing on print sources and objects rangin…
Histories of Medicine in the Household
Introducing the essays in this special issue on medicine in the household, Bivins, Marland and Tomes briefly sketch the existing historiography and argue for the enduring importance of the household as a site of medical decision making and practice. The household as explored by this collection also offers a valuable space within which to test new methodologies addressing the challenges that face historians and other scholars seeking to trace the …
Fit to Practice
Reviewed by: Fit to Practice: Empire, Race, Gender, and the Making of British Medicine, 1850–1980 by Douglas M. Haynes Roberta Bivins Douglas M. Haynes. Fit to Practice: Empire, Race, Gender, and the Making of British Medicine, 1850–1980. Rochester Studies in Medical History. Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2017. x + 246 pp. $99.00 (978-1-58046-581-6). There is much of value in Douglas Haynes's latest monograph, not least his demo…
Weighing on us all? Quantification and cultural responses to obesity in NHS Britain
How do cultures of self-quantification intersect with the modern state, particularly in relation to medical provision and health promotion? Here I explore the ways in which British practices and representations of body weight and weight management ignored or interacted with the National Health Service between 1948 and 2004. Through the lens of overweight, I examine health citizenship in the context of universal health provision funded from genera…
Commentary
It is something of a cliché to speak of Britain as having been transformed by the traumas of World War II and by its aftermath. From the advent of the 'cradle to grave' Welfare State to the end of (formal) empire, the effects of total war were enduring. Typically, they have been explored in relation to demographic, socioeconomic, technological and geopolitical trends and events. Yet as the articles in this volume observe across a variety of examp…
Pilot Programs and Postcolonial Pivots
Developed in Britain and the United States in the 1980s, genetic profiling has since become a global technology. Today, it is widely regarded as the evidentiary 'gold standard' in individual and forensic identification. However, its origins as a technology of post-empire at Britain's externalized borders in South Asia have remained unexamined. This article will argue that the first state-sanctioned use of 'DNA fingerprints,' a pilot program explo…
Forgone, Not Forgotten
DNA profiling has become a culturally ubiquitous technology. Its use, whether in forensic investigations, genetic databases, biomedical research, international border-making, or popular genealogy, has been familiarized through political debates, media and cultural representations and commercialization. DNA profiling has also attracted considerable scholarly attention across this terrain. However, scant attention has been paid to the key role play…
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