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Misaligned hope and conviction in health care. [PDF]

open access: yesBioethics
Abstract It is often said that it is important for patients to possess hope that their treatment will be successful. We agree, but a widely appealed to type of hope—hope based on conviction (religious or otherwise), renders this assertion problematic.
Clarke S, Oakley J, Pugh J, Wilkinson D.
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The Dominant Structures of the Times: Late Victorian Tragedy as Critique of Romantic Ideology [PDF]

open access: yesMaǧallaẗ Kulliyyaẗ Al-Adāb - Ǧāmiʿaẗ Al-Fayūm, 2023
In their attempt to move beyond the Enlightenment, Romantic writers and thinkers formulated a worldview which recreated the theological unity of being on the level of immanence.
Amr Elsherif
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Disraeli and “One Nation” in British cartoons, 1914-2016

open access: yesRevue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 2023
This paper analyzes the cartoons featuring Benjamin Disraeli after his death and the concept of “One Nation”. It shows that Disraeli remained through the 20th century a persona which British cartoonists recurringly made use of, although Churchill, and to
Philippe Vervaecke
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A neglected legacy: Massenpsychologie und ich‐analyse in the era of nations and nationalism

open access: yesPsychotherapy and Politics International, Volume 19, Issue 3, October 2021., 2021
Abstract This paper discusses the influence of Sigmund Freud, in particular that of his book Massenpsychologie und ich‐analyse, on the academic representation of nationalism. Written after World War I, just before the rise of the fascist regimes that would lead to World War II and the Nazi Holocaust, Massenpsychologie very quickly became a work of ...
Juan García‐García
wiley   +1 more source

Criminal Law at the Limit: Countering False Claims in Elections and Referendums

open access: yesThe Modern Law Review, Volume 84, Issue 3, Page 429-455, May 2021., 2021
Abstract When should the criminal law intervene to deter and punish the promulgation of falsehoods that are intended to influence political – electoral or referendum ‐ campaigns? I will scrutinise the protection that UK criminal law provides for the interests of candidates, referendum campaigners and voters, from the (potential) effects of damaging ...
Jeremy Horder
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The Politics of Petitioning: Parliament, Government, and Subscriptional Cultures in the United Kingdom, 1780–1918

open access: yesHistory, Volume 106, Issue 370, Page 221-243, March 2021., 2021
Abstract Over the course of the long nineteenth century, people in the United Kingdom signed a wide variety of petitions, addresses, testimonials, and related documents. Though many forms of subscriptional culture had medieval and early modern origins, their transformations across this period reveal the shifting perceptions of the crown, parliament ...
RICHARD HUZZEY, HENRY J. MILLER
wiley   +1 more source

Impressions of Disraeli: Mythmaking and the History of One Nation Conservatism, 1881-1940

open access: yesRevue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 2023
In addressing the rise of Disraeli’s global status in the half century that followed his death in 1881, this article draws on a vast corpus of Anglophone biographies, histories, obituaries, paintings, films, and more, to chart the transformation of ...
Emily Jones
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The curious case of charles darwin and homeopathy. [PDF]

open access: yesEvid Based Complement Alternat Med, 2010
In 1849, Charles Darwin was so ill that he was unable to work one out of every 3 days, and after having various troubling symptoms for 2–12 years, he wrote to a friend that he was ‘going the way of all flesh’. He sought treatment from Dr James Manby Gully, a medical doctor who used water cure and homeopathic medicines. Despite being highly skeptical of
Ullman D.
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Ian Gilmour and One Nation Conservatism

open access: yesRevue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 2023
This article examines the place of Ian Gilmour (1926-2007) within the “One Nation” conservative tradition. First, it examines possible definitions of “One Nation” conservatism, rejecting claims that one can fully find its origins in the writings of ...
Edmund Neill
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Queen Ṭǝru Wärq’s Necklace

open access: yesAethiopica, 2012
Miscellaneous Article The article, which traces the Ethiopian history of beads and necklaces, focuses on an unpublished necklace which belonged to Emperor Tewodros’s consort Queen Ṭǝru Wärq. Acquired by Robert Napier, apparently after her death in 1868,
Richard Pankhurst
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