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Why We Have & Need Human Rights (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Douglas, B. (2014, December). Why We Have & Need Human Rights. Paper presented at School Discussion, Ackworth, England

The Ethics of Stem Cell Research (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Pattinson, S. D. (2014, December). The Ethics of Stem Cell Research. Paper presented at Matariki Workshop on Research Ethics, University of Tübingen, Germany

A History of Faith in International Environmental Law (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Nicholson, M. (2014, December). A History of Faith in International Environmental Law. Paper presented at Theorising and Historicising International Law and the Environment (workshop), University of Keele, England

Flannel and the Cloth (2014)
Journal Article
Douglas, B., & Wilkinson, D. (2014). Flannel and the Cloth

The Rule of Law and Private Law (2014)
Book Chapter
Lucy, W. (2014). The Rule of Law and Private Law. In L. M. Austin, & D. Klimchuk (Eds.), Private law and the rule of law (41-66). Oxford University Press

What are Adaptive Preferences? Exclusion and Disability in the Capability Approach (2014)
Journal Article
Begon, J. (2015). What are Adaptive Preferences? Exclusion and Disability in the Capability Approach. Journal of Applied Philosophy, 32(3), 241-257. https://doi.org/10.1111/japp.12102

It is a longstanding problem for theorists of justice that many victims of injustice seem to prefer mistreatment, and perpetuate their own oppression. One possible response is to simply ignore such preferences as unreliable ‘adaptive preferences’. Ca... Read More about What are Adaptive Preferences? Exclusion and Disability in the Capability Approach.

Changing cartographies of health in a globalizing world (2014)
Journal Article
Schrecker, T. (2014). Changing cartographies of health in a globalizing world. Medicine Anthropology Theory, 1(1), 145-180. https://doi.org/10.17157/mat.1.1.203

Anthropologists have described, often in eloquent detail, local destruction of opportunities to lead a healthy life (the social determinants of health) attendant on the macroscale economic processes conveniently described as ‘globalization’. Recent r... Read More about Changing cartographies of health in a globalizing world.

Determining capacity to make medical treatment decisions : problems implementing the mental capacity act 2005 (2014)
Journal Article
Cave, E. (2015). Determining capacity to make medical treatment decisions : problems implementing the mental capacity act 2005. Statute Law Review, 36(1), 86-106. https://doi.org/10.1093/slr/hmu034

The Mental Capacity Act 2005 sets out a ground-breaking statutory framework to empower and protect vulnerable people who are incapable of making their own decisions. The Act incorporates empowering and safeguarding measures, but the balance between t... Read More about Determining capacity to make medical treatment decisions : problems implementing the mental capacity act 2005.

A migrant study of pubertal timing and tempo in British-Bangladeshi girls at varying risk for breast cancer (2014)
Journal Article
Houghton, L., Cooper, G., Bentley, G., Booth, M., Chowdhury, O., Troisi, R., …Katki, H. (2014). A migrant study of pubertal timing and tempo in British-Bangladeshi girls at varying risk for breast cancer. Breast Cancer Research, 16(6), Article 469. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13058-014-0469-8

Introduction: Earlier menarche is related to subsequent breast cancer risk, yet international differences in the age and tempo of other pubertal milestones and their relationships with body mass index (BMI) are not firmly established in populations a... Read More about A migrant study of pubertal timing and tempo in British-Bangladeshi girls at varying risk for breast cancer.

Effect of water temperature and population density on the population dynamics of Schistosoma mansoni intermediate host snails (2014)
Journal Article
McCreesh, N., & Booth, M. (2014). Effect of water temperature and population density on the population dynamics of Schistosoma mansoni intermediate host snails. Parasites and Vectors, 7, Article 503. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-014-0503-9

Background: Mathematical models can be used to identify areas at risk of increased or new schistosomiasis transmission as a result of climate change. The results of these models can be very different when parameterised to different species of host sn... Read More about Effect of water temperature and population density on the population dynamics of Schistosoma mansoni intermediate host snails.

Globalization, austerity and health equity politics: taming the inequality machine, and why it matters (2014)
Journal Article
Schrecker, T. (2016). Globalization, austerity and health equity politics: taming the inequality machine, and why it matters. Critical Public Health, 26(1), 4-13. https://doi.org/10.1080/09581596.2014.973019

The recognition that globalization has an important role in explaining health inequalities has now moved into the mainstream. Much of that role relates to what has been called ‘[t]he inequality machine [that] is reshaping the planet’. At the same tim... Read More about Globalization, austerity and health equity politics: taming the inequality machine, and why it matters.