PANAÏTÉ (Oana), The Colonial Fortune in Contemporary Fiction in French. Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2017, 206 p. – ISBN 978-1-78694-029-2

Robert Woods and  Chris Galley, Mrs Stone & Dr Smellie: Eighteenth-Century Midwives and their Patients (Liverpool: University of Liverpool Press, 2014), pp. vii, 544, £80, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-78138-141-0.

The book highlights how mission stations became important arenas, not only for enabling transnational flows of knowledge, but also for cross-cultural exchanges of knowledge between locals and foreign sisters. One would have expected that, throughout the history of Catholic medical missions, missionaries would have worked hard to marginalise indigenous medical practices. But Wall demonstrates th...

Liverpool University Expedition to Jamaica

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© 2011 by Graduate Journal of Social Science. All Rights Reserved. ISSN: 1572-3763 Analysing Social Media Networks with NodeXL: Insights from a Connected World (2011) explores the usage of NodeXL, a free template, designed to be used with Microsoft Excel, for the analysis of online social media networks. Hansen et al state that ‘social network analysis is the application of the broader field of...

Book Review: “Bagchi D., Swaroop A. (2017). Food Toxicology. CRC Press, Boca Raton. ISBN: 978-1-4987-0874-6”

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Thuy Linh Nguyen, Childbirth, Maternity, and Medical Pluralism in French Colonial Vietnam, 1880-1945 (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2016), pp. 254, £80, hardback/ebook, ISBN: 978-1-580-46568-7/978-1-782-04849-7.

arguments between scientists advocating for vitamins versus those who emphasised minerals went ‘beyond alleviating the effects of malnutrition’ and entered into discussions about national mortality, disability and state responsibility in setting standards for national and international food and nutrition policies. A key goal of professionalising nutrition science was the effort to establish nat...