Industrial Policy in Britain since 1970: Changing Values, Assumptions and Mechanisms

The Changing Management of Acute Bronchitis in Britain, 1940–1970: The Impact of Antibiotics

It has become commonplace in accounts of medicine in the second half of the twentiethcentury to ascribe an ‘‘antibiotic revolution’’ to the years when penicillin became widely available from the early 1950s. However, to date there have been hardly any studies that demonstrate a major discontinuity in medical practices after mid-century, let alone that go on to specify their character. There wou...

Health and medicine in Britain since 1860

annual meeting of the BAAS in 1927 that there should be a comprehensive moratorium on scientific research. She also draws on the controversy to deconstruct dominant representations of rationality and Englishness. Working in the underresearched field of the history of inter-war university education, Keith Vernon describes University Grants Commission-inspired efforts to inculcate "culturally dep...

Health and society in Britain since 1939

studies on the doctor-patient encounter, Robert Veatch defends the role that philosophy and theology have had in bioethical discourse and decision-making since the 1960s. Intermediate positions are developed by Alexander Capron ("socially situated, interdisciplinary medical ethics that seeks to protect professional judgement") and by Stephen Latham and Linda Emanuel, who emphasize that the very...

Economic Growth in Britain Since 1870

This chapter examines technological change in Britain over the last 140 years. It analyzes the effects of patent laws and innovation prizes that were designed to promote technical progress. It explores the challenge associated with the changing organizational structure of innovation and the shift from independent invention to R&D activity taking place inside the boundaries of firms. And it also...

English in English Languge Teaching: Shifting Values and Assumptions in Changing Circumstances