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- Influence
Disease metaphors in new epidemics: the UK media framing of the 2003 SARS epidemic
- P. Wallis, B. Nerlich
- Medicine
- Social Science & Medicine
- 11 January 2005
Abstract
Since the emergence of HIV/AIDS in the 1980s, social scientists and sociologists of health and illness have been exploring the metaphorical framing of this infectious disease in its… Expand
Metaphors and Biorisks
- B. Larson, B. Nerlich, P. Wallis
- Sociology
- 1 March 2005
This article seeks to construct a comparative investigation of the role and application of militaristic metaphors in three contested areas of science-society discourse (invasive species,… Expand
Apprenticeship and training in premodern England
- P. Wallis
- Economics
- 1 September 2008
This paper re-examines the economics of premodern apprenticeship in England. I present new data showing that a high proportion of apprenticeships in seventeenth century London ended before the term… Expand
The price of human capital in a pre-industrial economy: Premiums and apprenticeship contracts in 18th century England
- Chris Minns, P. Wallis
- Economics
- 1 July 2013
Training through apprenticeship provided the main mechanism for occupational human capital formation in pre-industrial England. This paper demonstrates how training premiums (fees) complemented the… Expand
Consumption, Retailing, and Medicine in Early-Modern London
- P. Wallis
- Economics
- 5 January 2008
This article examines the early development of specialized retail shops in early modern London. It argues that apothecaries' shops were sites of innovative shop design and display. These practices… Expand
The Relationship Between Openness to Experience and Willingness to Engage in Online Political Participation Is Influenced by News Consumption
- G. Jordan, Megan A. Pope, P. Wallis, S. Iyer
- Psychology
- 1 April 2015
TLDR
Rules and Reality: Quantifying the Practice of Apprenticeship in Early Modern England
- Chris Minns, P. Wallis
- Engineering, Sociology
- 1 May 2012
This paper uses recently digitised samples of apprentices and masters in London and Bristol to quantify the practice of apprenticeship in the late seventeenth century. Apprenticeship appears much… Expand
The Medical Marketplace
In the mid-1980s, a number of Anglophone historians began to describe health care in early modern England as a ‘medical marketplace’ or ‘medical market’. These terms were foregrounded by several… Expand
Debating a Duty to Treat: AIDS and the Professional Ethics of American Medicine
- P. Wallis
- Medicine
- Bulletin of the history of medicine
- 2011
A heated ethical and professional debate occurred in the United States in the late 1980s over whether doctors had an ethical obligation to treat people with AIDS. Sparked by public refusals to treat… Expand
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