Published March, 2023
By Ben Alderson-Day
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book charts a psychologist's journey to understand one of the most unusual experiences known to humankind: the feeling that someone or something is there when we are alone. A tour-de-force through contemporary psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience and philosophy, Presence is the story of who we carry with us, at all times, as parts of ourselves -- .

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Published February, 2023
By Margaret Brazier
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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A critical and colourful commentary on the history of the fractious relationship between law and medicine over several centuries reveals compelling stories how law regulated healers and healing . Any view that the law consistently deferred to medical practitioners is shown to be wrong. From the womb to the grave, enduring themes are identified. -- .

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Published February, 2023
By Alex Mold, Peder Clark and Hannah J. Elizabeth
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Why are some groups and individuals seen as problems for public health? How does this change over time and place? Through a series of case-studies, this collection explores the making of 'problem publics' and their relationship with public health authorities. -- .

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Published December, 2022
By Lori Ann Garner
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book works from the premise that the tremendous diversity of Old English medical texts requires an equally diverse range of interpretative methodologies. Taking a case study approach, it offers close readings tailored to individual remedies, drawing from biology, rhetoric, archaeology, folkloristics and disability studies. -- .

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Published December, 2022
By Cordelia Warr and Stephen Mossman
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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The Bulletin of the John Rylands Library is a long-running journal that publishes research complementary to the John Rylands Library's extensive special collections. -- .

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Published November, 2022
By Adam Hedgecoe
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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An ethnographic exploration of research ethics committees in the UK, which highlights the central role of trust in biomedical regulatory decision making. -- .

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Published October, 2022
By Waltraud Ernst and Thomas Muller
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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The medicalisation of alcohol use has become a prominent discourse that guides policy makers and impacts public perceptions of drinking. This book maps the historical and cultural dimensions of the phenomenon, emphasising medical attitudes to alcohol and the changing perception of consumption in psychiatry and mental health. -- .

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Published August, 2022
By Janet Weston and Hannah J. Elizabeth
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This edited collection showcases exciting new work on lesser-known histories of HIV/AIDS, from the earliest days of the crisis to the present day. Focusing on regions of western Europe, it offers new perspectives on the development and implementation of policy, the nature of activism and expertise and which (or whose) histories are remembered. -- .

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Published July, 2022
By James Thompson and Amanda Stuart Fisher
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Performing care explores the relation between socially-engaged performance and care and care ethics. It questions how performance might be understood as caring or uncaring and how care might be viewed as an embodied or aesthetic practice --arguing for more careful art and artful care. -- .

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Published July, 2022
By Martin Atherton, Iain Hutchison and Jaipreet Virdi
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Disability and the Victorians investigates the attitudes of Victorians towards people with impairments, illustrates how these influenced the interventions they introduced to support such people and considers the legacies they left behind by their actions and perspectives. A range of impairments are addressed in a variety of contexts. -- .

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