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Dr

James Bradley

Senior Lecturer
Historical and Philosophical Studies
arts & humanities
history & philosophy of science
history
science & technology
life sciences & biomedicine
social sciences
generic health relevance
anatomy
priority
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Projects

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Convicts and Diggers: A Demography of Life Courses, Families and Generations

Based on convict records, birth, death and marriage registrations, World War One service records, and other historical data, this project ex..

2011 - 2015
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The Medical Society of Victoria and the Making of the Colonial Medical Profession, 1855-1901

2008 - 2009
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Project Types

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Scholarly Works

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A Tale of Two Objects: Electro-Convulsive Therapy, History, and the Politics of Museum Display

James Bradley

Journal article  |  2020  |  Health and History

This essay offers a biography of two Electro-Convulsive Therapy (ECT) machines: the Bini-Cerletti machine used for the very first ..

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A Tale of Two Objects: Electro-Convulsive Therapy, History, and the Politics of Museum Display

James Bradley

Journal article  |  2020  |  HEALTH AND HISTORY

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Evaluation of a tertiary sustainability experiential learning program

Geoffrey R Browne, Helena Bender, James Bradley, Alexis Pang

Journal article  |  2020  |  International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education

Purpose: This paper aims to describe the development, promotion and evaluation of sustainability learning experience database (SLE..

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The Disputed Discovery of Facial and Trigeminal Nerve Function: Revisiting the Contributions of Herbert Mayo and Charles Bell

ML Carlson, J Bradley, JJ Van Gompel, RS Tubbs

Journal article  |  2017  |  Otology and Neurotology

Background: The first description of the voluntary motor function of the facial nerve and separate sensory-motor contributions of ..

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"Darwin's Delay": A Reassessment of the Evidence

RD Buchanan, J Bradley

Journal article  |  2017  |  Isis: A Journal of the History of Science Society

The suggestion that Darwin delayed publishing his species theory has long occupied a central part of his biographical storyline. T..

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Charles Bell and the Anatomy of Reform

James Bradley

Journal article  |  2017  |  Social History of Medicine

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'A certain instability of mind': Herbert Mayo, 1796-1852, Surgeon and Physiologist.

J Bradley

Journal article  |  2017  |  Journal of Medical Biography

Herbert Mayo was a significant physiologist and an important figure in the London medical world of the 1820s and 1830s. And yet, a..

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Royal ambitions: Creative writing and the Secret Rules of Courtship in the Medical Humanities

James Bradley, Susan Bradley Smith

Journal article  |  2015  |  TEXT

Recent years have the seen the call for a melding of the humanities with biomedicine in the quasi-discipline of the medical humani..

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Matters of Priority: Herbert Mayo, Charles Bell and Discoveries in the Nervous System

J Bradley

Journal article  |  2014  |  Medical History

Between 1822 and the late 1830s a highly personal priority dispute was fought between the celebrated surgeon and anatomist Sir Cha..

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The colonel and the slave girls: Life writing and the logic of history in 1830s Sydney

J Bradley

Journal article  |  2011  |  Journal of Social History

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Keyword Analysis

Expanding Knowledge
History and Philosophy of Specific Fields
Historical Studies
Demography
Epidemiology
Neurosciences
Provision of Health and Support Services
Public Health
Public Health (excl. Specific Population Health)
Social Work

News

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Your Questions Answered on open access

Virginia Barbour, Danny Kingsley, James Bradley, Keyan Tomaselli, Lucy Montgomery, Tom Cochrane

Open access means making peer reviewed works freely available in digital form, so that anyone with internet access can use them, without fi..

October 23, 2015
conversation Article
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Two steps forward, one step back: how World War II changed how we do human research

James Bradley

It’s easy, in retrospect, to portray World War II as a major turning point in the history of medical ethics. But it’s a portrayal we should..

June 10, 2015
conversation Article
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Got milk? How Pasteur made mass food production possible

James Bradley

The death of a three-year-old child caused by drinking unpasteurised milk late last year invited much commentary about food safety and regu..

January 4, 2015
conversation Article
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Shell shock treatments reveal the conflict in psychiatry's heart

James Bradley

One of the most iconic images of the first world war, the outbreak of which is being commemorated all over the world, is the deserter – hea..

August 5, 2014
conversation Article
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From the sweet taste of urine to MRI: how doctors lost their senses

James Bradley

“Diabetic urine”, the surgeon Herbert Mayo wrote in 1832, “is almost always of a pale straw or greenish colour. Its smell is commonly faint..

July 10, 2014
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Natural born killers: brain shape, behaviour and the history of phrenology

James Bradley

Long before neuroscience, phrenology claimed to have the power to determine who was afflicted with badness and who was suffering from madne..

June 12, 2014
conversation Article
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The future in your palm: science and The Secrets of the Hand

James Bradley

For thousands of years, people believed their future could be read in the lines etched into the palm of their hands. The ancient art of pal..

April 11, 2014
conversation Article
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Hoax highlights the pitfalls and perils of open access publishing

James Bradley

Open access has become the catch-cry of academic science, demanding all research be freely available to anyone. But it leaves open the ques..

November 3, 2013
conversation Article
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Human experimentation and ethics at Essendon Football Club

James Bradley

The news that the AFL has charged James Hird, and other members of the Essendon Football Club’s management staff (including the club doctor..

August 14, 2013
conversation Article
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The ape insult: a short history of a racist idea

James Bradley

Most us know that calling someone an ape is racist, but few of us understand why apes are associated in the European imagination with indig..

May 30, 2013
conversation Article

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Credentials

Positions

Senior Lecturer

Historical and Philosophical Studies

Education

Diploma (with Distinction) Logic, Textual Analysis and Information Technology

University of Dundee

Doctor of Philosophy

The University of Edinburgh

Master of Arts

The University of Edinburgh

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