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The Impact of Dual Use Controls on UK Science: Results from a Pilot Study [PDF]

open access: yes
Concerns about the proliferation of biological weapons and the threat posed by bioterrorism have assumed greater political prominence in recent years. In response, governments are actively attempting to frustrate the diffusion of technologies, relevant ...
Caitriona McLeish, Paul Nightingale
core  

Extreme weather and economic crisis in the 1430s in England, and the implications for tenurial change

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract The 1430s were characterized by extreme weather conditions, food and fodder shortages, and high mortalities among animals and humans, although the severity of events and their consequences in England have received limited attention. The economic downturn and the depressed customary land market in this decade marked the beginning of the Great ...
Mark Bailey
wiley   +1 more source

On Racialized, Gendered, Precarious Work: Struggles of Community Health Workers During the National Health Insurance Pilot Program in the Tshwane District, South Africa

open access: yesGender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The infrastructure of precarious work is racialized and gendered, affecting disenfranchised Black women who carry the burden of low paid caregiving within the healthcare system. In South Africa, Community Health Workers, predominantly Black women from marginalized communities, have been vital in providing primary healthcare services at home ...
Sivuyisiwe Wonci
wiley   +1 more source

REALISM OR IDEALISM? PERSPECTIVES ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY FROM A PRACTICING HISTORIAN

open access: yesHistory and Theory, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This review essay argues that the realist philosophy of history, as represented by Adam Timmins in Towards a Realist Philosophy of History, raises interesting questions about the nature of historical writing and challenges some of the foundations of idealist philosophy of history.
Stefan Berger
wiley   +1 more source

UNWARRANTED CONFIDENCE: A CRITICAL REVIEW OF THE POVERTY OF ANTI‐REALISM

open access: yesHistory and Theory, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Poverty of Anti‐Realism: Critical Perspectives on Postmodernist Philosophy of History, edited by Tor Egil Førland and Branko Mitrović, celebrates the new dawn of historical realism, which it claims supersedes the erroneous and harmful anti‐realism.
Jouni‐Matti Kuukkanen
wiley   +1 more source

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