Stories
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The ‘epileptic’ in art and science
From scarred outsiders in literature to the cold voyeurism of medical films and photography, people who experience seizures and epilepsy are rarely shown in a compassionate light in popular culture.
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Medics and the bomb
Would a nuclear attack on the UK overwhelm the NHS? At the height of the Cold War, despite government optimism, medics predicted doom.
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Public health campaigns and the ‘threat’ of disability
By continuing to represent disability as the feared outcome of disease, public health campaigns help to perpetuate prejudice against disabled people.
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How nature is defending itself in court
The idea that nature has legal rights is increasingly being taken seriously, but who gets to speak for it? Isabella Kaminski asks how the non-human can be represented within a human-made system.
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Arguments to prove the interposition of the people to be constitutional and strictly legal: in which the necessity of a more equal representation of the people in Parliament is also proved: and a simple, unobjectionable mode of equalizing the representation is suggested.
Date: 1783- Books
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The principles of government; in a dialogue between a scholar and a peasant. Written by a member of the Society for Constitutional Information.
Jones, William, 1746-1794.Date: 1783]- Books
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The principles of government; in a dialogue between a scholar and a peasant. Written by Sir William Jones, a member of the Society for Constitutional Information.
Jones, William, 1746-1794.Date: 1783]- Books
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An essay to prove, that the long continuing of one and the same Parliament, endangers the liberty of the people; and that when a mixt government degenerates into tyranny, it is more lasting, and more destructive of the constitution of a country, than the most despotick government of a single person.
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A defence of the ancient, legal, and constitutional, right of the people, to elect representatives for every session of Parliament; Viz. Not only "every year once," but also "more often if need be:" as expressly required in the old statute, and confirmed by the general usage of ancient times, demonstrated by the evidence of the original writs for election: In a letter to a member of the Surry Committee. By Granville Sharp.
Sharp, Granville, 1735-1813.Date: M.DCC.LXXX. [1780]