Ford Madox Ford

[About the book]: Featuring over 500 entries written by an international team of scholars, The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction is an authoritative reference resource of up to date scholarship. Arranged in three volumes covering British and Irish fiction, American fiction, and World fiction, the entries cover major writers and their works; the genres and sub-genres of fiction (including crime fiction, sci fi, chick lit, the noir novel, and the avant garde novel); and the major movements, debates, and rubrics within the field. My entry on the novelist, critic, poet and editor Ford Madox Ford is in Volume 1 of the Encyclopedia

Contested Ground: alcohol, attachment, and the hut habit at war

This talk is about the different ways and places in which attachment was expressed, managed, contained and denied at war. My focus is on alcohol, and on associated ideas about the articulation and performance of masculine identity, as demonstrated by church organizations and the military, as well as a range of men who fought. The concept of the ‘whole man’, fundamental to the wartime caregiving of the YMCA, for example, was, I will argue, a construct that conflicted with the military model. The experience of attachment, as explored in the literary record, exposes the extent of that conflict, as does the wartime debate over the use and effects of alcohol – a debate that had a politically and socially fraught history in the UK in the years before 1914. If, as one historian argues, ‘the British soldier was remarkably well looked after’, how was that looking after managed and manifested when alcohol was the matter at hand? This talk examines this and other questions in its exploration of the contested ground of alcohol at war

The best of both worlds : how primary care can save lives and money

Just imagine, for a moment, that you receive a request from a newly independent country, anywhere in the world, appointing you to devise a health care system. You have an absolutely free hand to design it as you wish. Where would you start? Most of us would start by determining exactly what outcomes we wanted for our system. It is hard to believe that many thinking people would opt for anything other than improved health outcomes for their population, and a reduction in health inequalities. What else could be more important? And so it is mystifying that so very many countries have healthcare systems that do the very opposite, that appear to have as their main reason for existence the provision of jobs for clinicians, or the acquisition of increasing levels of high technology equipment. Do their populations realize this? More importantly, do the health ministers, and their civil servants realize this? Sadly, one suspects that they do not. Because the evidence is remarkably clear that high quality primary care is the secret to effective health care. Primary care is the first point of contact for the majority of people who need to access health services, and is able to meet 90-95% of all health and personal social service needs.peer-reviewe

The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford

This is an edition of Ford's modernist masterpiece, a novel that was an inspiration for many later, distinguished writers, including Graham Greene. Set before the First World War, it tells the tale of two wealthy and sophisticated couples, one English, one American, as they travel, socialise, and take the waters in the spa towns of Europe. They are 'playing the game' in style. That game has begun to unravel, however. With compelling attention to the tragic (and comic) results, the American narrator - a model of the 'unreliable' kind - reveals his growing awareness of the sexual intrigues and emotional betrayals that lie behind its facade. The introduction (6000 words) and notes cover such issues as critical reception, biographical and historical context, and form and style, also explaining Ford's many references - to Conrad's writing, for example, and the Bible in particular

Written in blood: Family, sex and violence in Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre

This essay is an examination of the themes of family, sex, and violence, and the inter-relationships between them, in two of the best-known novels of the nineteenth century

“The moaning of the world” and the “words that bring me peace”: Modernism and the First World War

This chapter takes its place in a huge new project on twentieth-century British and American war literature. It focuses on technology and sense perception in First World War writing in its account of the formal and contextual relationships between modernism and the war

“You’re an expert in me”: the role of the generalist doctor in the management of patients with multimorbidity

It is not often that a single patient successfully symbolizes almost every important trend in modern medicine, but one particular man achieved this in a solitary consultation. He was a patient in my general practice. He was 77 years old – exemplifying the ageing population, and had only lived in my area for 3 or 4 years – exemplifying an increasingly mobile population. I knew him well and saw him often – combining an aspiration for continuity, and increasing consultation rates in primary care. He had prostate cancer, but he also had hypertension, diabetes, coronary artery disease, macular degeneration, hyperlipidaemia, an arthritic right hip, and, hardly surprisingly, depression. This was multimorbidity par excellence.Journal of Comorbidity 2015;5(1):132–13

Accounting for hospices: Palliative care at risk

This paper is based on a presentation given at the British Accounting and Finance Association 46th Annual Conference in 30 March to 1 April 2010 at Cardiff City HallThis article is concerned with how the Government’s end of life care strategy seeks to draw upon the capacity and additional choice provided by voluntary charitable hospices in England. Constructing a hospice financial business model we consider the extent to which the policy intersection outlined in the Governments End of Life Care Strategy between Primary Care Trust (PCT) commissioning and the contribution of voluntary hospices is robust or fragile going forward