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A comparison of urinary mercury between children with autism spectrum disorders and control children (2012)
Journal Article
Wright, B., Pearce, H., Allgar, V., Miles, J., Whitton, C., Leon, I., …Alderson-Day, B. (2012). A comparison of urinary mercury between children with autism spectrum disorders and control children. PLoS ONE, 7(2), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0029547

Background: Urinary mercury concentrations are used in research exploring mercury exposure. Some theorists have proposed that autism is caused by mercury toxicity. We set out to test whether mercury concentrations in the urine of children with autism... Read More about A comparison of urinary mercury between children with autism spectrum disorders and control children.

Mathematics <> Masculinity <>Madness (2012)
Book Chapter
Woods, A. (2012). Mathematics Masculinity Madness. In G. Araoz (Ed.), Madness in context : historical, poetic and artistic narratives. Interdisciplinary Press

According to phenomenological psychologist Louis Sass, conventional psychiatric, psychoanalytic and avant-garde accounts of schizophrenia “share the assumption that schizophrenic pathology must involve a loss of what, in the West, has long been assum... Read More about Mathematics <> Masculinity <>Madness.

Melatonin versus placebo in children with autism spectrum conditions and severe sleep problems not amenable to behaviour management strategies: A Randomised Controlled Crossover Trial (2011)
Journal Article
Wright, B., Sims, D., Smart, S., Alwazeer, A., Alderson-Day, B., Allgar, V., …Miles, J. (2011). Melatonin versus placebo in children with autism spectrum conditions and severe sleep problems not amenable to behaviour management strategies: A Randomised Controlled Crossover Trial. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 41(2), 175-184. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-010-1036-5

The Limits of Narrative: Provocations for the Medical Humanities (2011)
Journal Article
Woods, A. (2011). The Limits of Narrative: Provocations for the Medical Humanities. Medical Humanities, 37(2), 73-78. https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2011-010045

This paper aims to (re)ignite debate about the role of narrative in the medical humanities. It begins with a critical review of the ways in which narrative has been mobilised by humanities and social science scholars to understand the experience of h... Read More about The Limits of Narrative: Provocations for the Medical Humanities.

A Hole in the Heart: confronting the drive for evidence-based impact research in arts in health (2011)
Journal Article
Raw, A., Lewis, S., Russell, A., & Macnaughton, J. (2012). A Hole in the Heart: confronting the drive for evidence-based impact research in arts in health. Arts and Health: An International Journal for Research, Policy and Practice, 4(2), 97-108. https://doi.org/10.1080/17533015.2011.619991

The field of arts and health, and associated academic discussion, is beset by a number of interlinked challenges which make it vulnerable to academic dismissal or, at best, poor visibility. One of these is a preoccupation with developing an evidence... Read More about A Hole in the Heart: confronting the drive for evidence-based impact research in arts in health.

Medical humanities’ challenge to medicine (2011)
Journal Article
Macnaughton, J. (2011). Medical humanities’ challenge to medicine. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 17(5), 927-932. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2753.2011.01728.x

Medicine is predicated on a view of human nature that is highly positivist and atomistic. This is apparent in the way in which its students are taught, clinical consultations are structured and medical evidence is generated. The field of medical huma... Read More about Medical humanities’ challenge to medicine.

'I suffer in an unknown manner that is hieroglyphical’. Jung and Babette en route to Freud and Schreber (2011)
Journal Article
Woods, A. (2011). 'I suffer in an unknown manner that is hieroglyphical’. Jung and Babette en route to Freud and Schreber. History of the Present, 1(2), 244-258. https://doi.org/10.5406/historypresent.1.2.0244

To begin: two fragments. The first is an embroidered jacket. It belonged to a woman called Agnes Richter who lived in an Austrian asylum in the late 1890s. In the words of artist Renée Turner, the jacket is "embroidered so intensively that reading is... Read More about 'I suffer in an unknown manner that is hieroglyphical’. Jung and Babette en route to Freud and Schreber.

Scales of Care and Responsibility: debating the surgically globalised body (2011)
Journal Article
Atkinson, S. (2011). Scales of Care and Responsibility: debating the surgically globalised body. Social and Cultural Geography, 12(6), 623-637. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2011.601263

This paper initiates debate for geographers on the nature of care in relation to the self explored through the practices of aesthetic surgery. Central to debates on the meanings and relations of aesthetic surgery are a set of problematics related to... Read More about Scales of Care and Responsibility: debating the surgically globalised body.

The place and practices of wellbeing in local governance (2011)
Journal Article
Atkinson, S., & Joyce, K. (2011). The place and practices of wellbeing in local governance. Environment and planning. C, Government and policy, 29(1), 133-148. https://doi.org/10.1068/c09200

The concept of well-being has become prominent within national policy goals in the UK since the end of the 1990s. However, the concept of well-being remains ill defined, an instability that is increasingly understood as problematic to policy making.... Read More about The place and practices of wellbeing in local governance.