https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Index ${session.getAttribute("locale")} 5 https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:41516 Wed 29 Nov 2023 15:06:23 AEDT ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:43164 Tue 13 Sep 2022 15:49:24 AEST ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:35367 Health and History addresses the various meanings of 'trauma'-that broad and contested concept-in Australian contexts. It has its origins in an interdisciplinary symposium at the University of Newcastle in May 2017, convened by the Centre for the History of Violence to coincide with the visit of Professor Mark S. Micale from the University of Illinois. The author and editor of several key works examining the history of trauma and related concepts, Micale had recently argued that the spread of the idea of trauma and its associated literatures 'registers a deepening understanding of the essential fragility of the human psyche' and that one key challenge for scholars grappling with the concept is to eschew 'a single, undirectional narrative of trauma that culminates logically in present-day medical science' in favour of 'multiple, context-dependent histories'. The symposium brought together scholars and practitioners in the humanities, social sciences, and medical sciences to test this proposition in the case of Australia and the new region. The articles and interviews in this special issue expand on the discussions from that day, which were framed by questions both broad and more constrained. What do we mean when we speak about 'trauma'? How does this differ between disciplines? What is the relationship between theory and clinical practice? How has trauma and its analogues been understood in the Australian past? How is trauma understood in the Australian present?]]> Thu 25 Jul 2019 09:25:04 AEST ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:40528 Thu 14 Jul 2022 09:26:47 AEST ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:41658 Thu 01 Sep 2022 08:47:00 AEST ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:31788 Sat 24 Mar 2018 08:42:51 AEDT ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:23026 Sat 24 Mar 2018 07:13:47 AEDT ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:48187 Sat 11 Mar 2023 12:30:01 AEDT ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:53279 Mon 20 Nov 2023 13:09:51 AEDT ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:53266 Mon 20 Nov 2023 12:34:56 AEDT ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:39796 The Better Angels of Our Nature lays out his case in extensive if contested statistical detail, arguing that there has been a ‘tenfold-to-fiftyfold’ decrease in rates of homicide in Western Europe since the sixteenth century.¹ He appears to have been inspired to think in terms of downward trends by a graph of declining homicide rates in England, calculated by Robert Ted Gurr in 1981 and part of a broader effort by historical criminologists to quantify long-term patterns in interpersonal violence. It was their data, Pinker writes, that convinced him that there was ‘an underappreciated story waiting to be told’.² In doing so The Better Angels of Our Nature draws heavily on the work of the German sociologist Norbert Elias and his theory of ‘the civilizing process’, first set out in a book of the same name published in 1939. According to this theory, increasing mastery of psychological ‘drives’ towards impulsivity – best demonstrated by the aristocratic adoption of elaborate rules of courtly etiquette – and the spread of princely authority, centralized administration and economic ties over larger and larger territories resulted in an increasing ‘pacification’ of key societies in Western Europe by the early modern period. For many historical criminologists and crime historians, murder is understood as an impulsive, if irrational, act. In mapping homicide rates in the same era, Elias’ ideas about the development of self restraint have provided important theoretical ballast for data sets that are often uneven or incomplete. It is unsurprising, therefore, that an interpretation of Elias is also crucial to Pinker’s thesis, both to explain declining homicide rates and to convey a general sense of ‘moral progress’.]]> Mon 20 Nov 2023 11:39:04 AEDT ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:41576 Fri 05 Aug 2022 15:48:16 AEST ]]>