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‘it bringeth them into dangerous perill’: Management of and recovery from miscarriage in early modern England c. 1600-1750
(2023-02-01)Early modern women frequently experienced miscarriages at different stages of their pregnancies. Scholarly investigation has revealed the emotional strain this placed on women and how women rationalized their experiences ... -
"..it depends on the risk." Constructing 'Antipsychotic' Medication 'Refusal' in Community 'Mental Health' Services
(2011-02-18)Aim Antipsychotic medication is the predominant intervention used for psychosis in the UK. However, there are risks associated, it is not always effective and service-users express ambivalence towards taking it. The ... -
“It does get good again, and it will.” A Grounded Theory Exploration of Cis Women’s Journey from Rape or Unwanted Sex in Adulthood to Joy and Enjoyment in Sexual Intimacy
(2023-10-30)Literature on the sexual impact of sexual violence has predominantly focused on dysfunction and risk, suggesting a hopeless future for those impacted. This grounded theory study explores how cis women in the UK are able ... -
'It felt like it was night all the time' : listening to the experiences of birth mothers whose children have been taken into care or adopted
(2015-12-07)The child care literature consistently reports a lack of support for birth mothers following their child being taken into care or adopted. This is despite consistent evidence of the long-term consequences of the removal ... -
IT innovation and its organizational conditions in safety critical domains : the case of the Minimum Safe Altitude Warning System
(Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), 2011)Safety critical organizations modernize routinely their infrastructures in order to improve safety and productivity. However, such improvement might be compromised if new tools are not delivered, or fail to be adopted by ... -
'It is caused of the womans part or of the mans part': the role of gender in the diagnosis and treatment of sexual dysfunction in early modern England.
(2011-07)Philip Barrough wrote in 1590 that barrenness ‘is caused of the womans part or of the mans part’. By the eighteenth century, however, barrenness was perceived as a female disorder distinguished from male impotence. Few ... -
‘It is impossible to judge the extent to which the crime is prevalent’: Infanticide and the law in India, 1870-1926
(2021-09-19)This article examines colonial debates over infanticide in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century India, including the question of whether new legislation should be introduced to target the crime. Such debates were ... -
‘’It just happens’. Care home residents’ experiences and expectations of accessing GP care.
(2018-11-01)Background: Care homes provide personal care and support for older people who can no longer be supported in the community. As part of a larger study of integrated working between the NHS and care homes we asked older people ... -
It Takes More than Moore to Answer Existence-Questions
(2019-02-18)Several recent discussions of metaphysics disavow existence-questions, claiming that they are metaphysically uninteresting because trivially settled in the affirmative by Moorean facts. This is often given as a reason to ... -
It takes two: The experience of stress and associated impacts upon the coach-athlete relationship in elite athletics.
(2013-12-16)Objective: To explore elite athletics coaches’ experiences of stress and its potential impact on the coach-athlete relationship. Design: A qualitative research design was employed. – underpinned by which philosophical ... -
It was a Pleasure Meeting You : Towards a Holistic Model of Human-Robot Encounters
(2021-11)Social signals are commonly used to facilitate the usability of humanoid robots. While providing the robot with an extended expressibility, these signals are often applied only in structured interactions where parts of the ... -
“It was really good, she sort of took some words what happened, like what I would say”: Adapting dyadic interview techniques to capture the stories of marginalised voices in research
(2021-03-01)Qualitative research continues to rely heavily on verbal language from solely the participant, which often omits the lived experiences of many people across a range of populations. This paper describes adaptations to an ... -
It's more peaceful without any support : what do deaf pupils think about the support they receive in mainstream schools?
(2003)Our third article turns its attention to the views of young people on the support they receive in school, with deaf education supplying a particularly useful context to explore this issue. Here Joy Jarvis describes a ... -
“It's no good but at least I've always got it round my neck”: A postphenomenological analysis of reassurance in assistive technology use by older people
(2021-11-06)The provision of reassurance is seen as a goal and benefit of the use of assistive technology (AT) in supporting people to manage their health and care needs at a distance. Conceptually, reassurance in health and care ... -
"It's nothing you could ever prepare anyone for": the experiences of young people and their families following parental stroke
(2018-03-21)Aims: This study sought to explore the experiences of young people (aged 8–16) and their families following parental acquired brain injury (ABI), with the aim of developing an understanding of the ways in which members of ... -
'It's organisms that die, not life': Henri Bergson, Psychical Research, and the Contemporary Uses of Vitalism.
(Manchester University Press, 2013-09)This chapter traces the connections between Henri Bergson's vitalist philosophy and his interest in spiritualism and psychical research. The chapter concludes by reflecting on the continuation of these links in contemporary ... -
It's Personal : Subjectivity in Design History
(2015-04-21)Postmodern theory might have finally killed off the utopian ideal of history as an objective science, but it has arguably left a vacuum, with no comprehensive debate on the role of subjectivity in history writing and its ...