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Leprosy (Hansen’s Disease): the WHO, Courage, and the Myth of ‘Elimination’
(Universala Medicina Esperanto Asocio, 2020-01-14)
Despite a significant decrease in the prevalence of Leprosy since the introduction of Multi-Drug Therapy (MDT) in the 1980s, it remains a scourge. Unfortunately the World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared the disease ...
EU Mandated Anti-Smoking Warnings in Belgium: Language Issues and Moving Beyond a ”one size fits all”
(Universala Medicina Esperanto Asocio, 2019-08-04)
Combined health warnings on tobacco packaging are commonplace amongst EU countries in 2018. This letter briefly describes some of the challenges that bi-and tri-lingual countries, such as Belgium, may face in the years to come.
Geography, global pandemics & air travel: Faster, fuller, further & more frequent
(Elsevier Ltd, 2019-02-12)
Anti-tobacco text warnings in Italy: Geography, language and South Tyrol
(The Netherlands Press, 2019-05-21)
Easter Eggs & ‘Easter Eggs’: Alcohol Branded Chocolate Eggs & Intoxigenic Environments in Ireland
(The Netherlands Press, 2021)
Alcohol branded Easter Eggs were observed in a mainstream Irish supermarket. The Public Health (Alcohol) Act, 2018 fails to deal with such child-friendly marketing. An amendment to the current legislation to counter this ...
Condemning the War in Ukraine & the Need for Peace
(The Netherlands Press, 2022-03-23)
Linguistic Imperialism, Toponymy, Semiotics & Taxonomies: The Anglicisation of Irish place names in hegemonic library cataloguing systems
(2019)
Background. Cataloguing systems are generally assumed to be logical, objective and non-political. In this sense they are often assumed to be rather like maps. However, assumptions around the neutrality of both are erroneous. ...
Cause for Concern: Copycat Gender Identity Based Book Protests in Public Libraries in Ireland
(Journal of Radical Librarianship, 2023-09-13)
This commentary briefly explores the rise of book bans in the US before giving an overview of similar protests emerging in Irish libraries. From being a very traditional and largely Catholic confessional State Ireland has ...