‘The music industry’ is commonly understood as a singular entity that is often portrayed as a place of shared concerns and goals. However, as many observers and academics have pointed out, this singular term is misleading and the very idea of a united place belies the reality which is ridden with tension and full of competing interests and industries (see Sterne, 2014). It is withi…
For the next twenty-five years, the justifiability of opening the abdo-men to treat ovarian disease would remain contested, causing deep schisms in the profession, through which reputations were lost and careers ruined just as often as fortunes were gained and lives were saved. It was an operation that thrilled and horrified in equal measure with its d…
his interdisciplinary collection—spanning the disciplines of engineering, law and planning—draws helpfully on a range of practical and theoretical perspectives. It is the collaborative effort of leading experts in the fields of infrastructure project initiation and financing, and is based on international research conducted by the University of Melbourne, Universitas Indonesia and Universit…
This collaborative volume explores changing perceptions of health and disease in the context of the burgeoning global modernities of the long nineteenth century. During this period, popular and medical understandings of the mind and body were challenged, modified, and reframed by the politics and structures of ‘modern life’, understood in industrial, social, commercial, and technological te…
Lance Armstrong tengah berada di puncak impiannya. Atlet balap sepeda kelas dunia, dengan sebuah rumah mewah di tepi Danau Austin, kunci mobil Porsche, kontrak kerja senilai jutaan dolar, dan kekasih cantik yang meramaikan hari-harinya. Namun hanya selang beberapa pekan setelahnya, dia menerima kabar yang meruntuhkan dunianya: "Kau terkena kanker, stadium lanjut". Menghadapi vonis itu, dengan …