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'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 ... -
An Italian survey of opioids misuse: Epidemiological and psychopathological aspects
(2021-11-18)Objective Opioid abuse is a worrying reality especially in the US. The increase in the prescription of opioids in Europe poses the risk of a possible increase in the number of abusers also in Italy. The aim of the study ... -
Italianita and Internationalism: production, design and mediation at Alessi 1976-96
(2002-05-01)This article considers the Italian household product design company Alessi as quintessentiall y Italian and international . The interplay of mass-production and craft techniques at Alessi, an extended design process and ... -
The ITALK project : A developmental robotics approach to the study of individual, social, and linguistic learning
(2014-07-24)This article presents results from a multidisciplinary research project on the integration and transfer of language knowledge into robots as an empirical paradigm for the study of language development in both humans and ... -
Item-by-item sampling for promotional purposes
(2017-06-07)In this paper we present a method for sampling items that are checked on a pass/fail basis, with a view to a statement being made about the success/failure rate for the purposes of promoting an organisation’s product/service ... -
Item-by-item sampling for promotional purposes
(University of Hertfordshire, 2012)In this paper we present a method for sampling items that are checked on a pass/fail basis, with a view to a claim being made about the success/failure rate for the purposes of promoting a company’s product/service. Attention ...