The definitions and meaning qualified nurses employed in an acute NHS
hospital setting in the UK gave to health education and health promotion practice
and how these fitted established language and theory were investigated qualitatively.
These concepts, and the concomitant…

BACKGROUND: The extubation failure rate in our burn patients is 30%.

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the influence of the 30 min spontaneous breathing trial on extubation outcome in burn patients.

METHODS: A prospective, observational study in a burn intensive…

Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe has been widely discussed as a key example of 18th century British and – in the wider sense – European colonial writing that confirms the supremacy of Western culture while stressing transcultural desires and fears. Of…

This straightforward and jargon-free book will provide students with the theoretical understandings, practical knowledge and skills they need to carry out independent research. The international contributors identify key research methodologies, data collection tools and analysis methods, and focus on the…

Due to be published in International Journal of Local and Regional History in 2014., The celebrations in Cambridge to welcome the relief of Ladysmith in March 1900 took the form of a huge illegal bonfire erected in the town market…

Originally published in Rhizomes, an international peer-reviewed online journal. Reprinted in Giffney, N. ed., 2008. Queering the Non/Human. London: Ashgate., Subjectivities configured as post-human may challenge investments in former configurations of what it means to be human, but there remains…

The ending of the war with France in 1815 brought a severe recession to Britain as orders for war goods were cancelled and 200 000 demobilized service personnel rejoined the labor market. Unemployment and even starvation were a part of…

I have been interested in the molecular mechanisms of Haematopoietic malignant diseases such as leukaemia and lymphoma, especially those involving oncogenic tyrosine kinases. About 30 of the 90 tyrosine kinases in the human genome have been implicated in cancer (Blume-Jensen…