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The service of medical practitioners in the early Australian colonies was inextricably bound up with a heavily militarized culture. This article explores the relationships between those medical practitioners, legal punishment, and the British Empire in the first half of the nineteenth century. The service of medical practitioners in the Australian colonies, coming as it did so close on the heels of two generations of war, gives us an important insight into the effects of the Napoleonic wars both upon the practice of medicine in the service of the British State, and also the State's attitude to the use of medical expertise. In the military spaces of transport and colony, the medical officer became an important lynch pin in the discipline and control exercised over convict bodies. Military medical expertise was useful to the State in understanding the best ways to discomfort and hurt convicts, without quite killing them. This expertise was further cultivated by the State in the ongoing design of the medical role in the colonies that came to hark forward to the prison officer of the later nineteenth century whose position, balanced precariously between punishment and care, has been of such interest to penologists and medical historians.

In January 2020, all non-profit organisations providing services to people with intellectual disabilities received notification from the Health Service Executive that they were to receive a 1% cut. In money terms, this equates to €20 million a year being taken out of direct service provision. This was a devastating blow to a sector, already on its knees from a lack of government investment.

The Covid-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc on Ireland politically, economically and socially. It poses a threat to our population, both in terms of a risk to human life and the social conflicts and societal divisions that can be attributed to this contagion. The pandemic has fuelled national friction and caused tension, anxiety and uncertainty for us all. Unpredictability, new social norms and less control and power over our own lives have resulted in higher anxiety levels as we face the prospect of social and economic sacrifice without any guarantee of a better future.

In an historical moment in 1992, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed December 3rd to the the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. This was done in a bid to increase awareness, and understanding, of disability issues, and to highlight the gains to be derived from the integration and inclusion of people in all aspects of political, social, economic and cultural life.

Donald Trump has long been a thorn in our sides. Throughout, the latest US presidential election, Trump and his associates attempted to control, infiltrate, manipulate and bully the United States voting electorate, and in doing so tried to compromise the integrity of democracy.

1. Chapter 1 – Introduction: Party Proliferation and its Consequences in Senegal and Beyond -- 2. Chapter 2 – Theories of Party-Building: Africa, Competitive Authoritarianism, and Democracy -- 3. Chapter 3 – Party Formation and Proliferation on Senegal's Uneven Playing Field -- 4. Chapter 4 – Negotiators or Adversaries? Tracing the Sources of Party Trajectories -- 5. Chapter 5 – Defeating Presidents from Within: Regime Insiders and Turnover in Senegal -- 6. Chapter 6 – Party Loyalty and Defection from the Ruling Party under Proliferation -- 7. Chapter 7 – Conclusion and Notes on Comparative and Policy Perspectives on Party Proliferation in Africa