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  • The Origins of Bioethics

    Remembering When Medicine Went Wrong

    by John A. Lynch ...
    Series series Rhetoric & Public Affairs
    The Origins of Bioethics argues that what we remember from the history of medicine and how we remember it are consequential for the identities of doctors, researchers, and patients in the present day. Remembering when medicine went wrong calls people to account for the injustices inflicted on vulnerable communities across the twentieth century in the name of medicine, but the very groups empowered ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Rhetoric of Health and Medicine As/Is

    Theories and Approaches for the Field

    Edited by Lisa Melonçon, S. Scott Graham, Jenell Johnson, John A Lynch, Cynthia Ryan ...
    The rhetoric of health and medicine (RHM) is a growing and vibrant area of inquiry incorporating scholars working across a variety of fields and disciplines. While this makes it a source for rich and innovative scholarship, this emerging field is in need of a guiding text that can bring together the disparate work spread across multiple disciplines and institutional spaces. Rhetoric of Health and ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

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  • The Cigarette Century

    The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America

    by Allan M. Brandt ...
    The invention of mass marketing led to cigarettes being emblazoned in advertising and film, deeply tied to modern notions of glamour and sex appeal. It is hard to find a photo of Humphrey Bogart or Lauren Bacall without a cigarette. No product has been so heavily promoted or has become so deeply entrenched in American consciousness. And no product has received such sustained scientific scrutiny. ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Body and Soul

    The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination

    by Alondra Nelson ...
    Between its founding in 1966 and its formal end in 1980, the Black Panther Party blazed a distinctive trail in American political culture. The Black Panthers are most often remembered for their revolutionary rhetoric and militant action. Here Alondra Nelson deftly recovers an indispensable but lesser-known aspect of the organization’s broader struggle for social justice: health care. The Black ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Breathing Race into the Machine

    The Surprising Career of the Spirometer from Plantation to Genetics

    by Lundy Braun ...
    How race became embedded in a medical instrumentIn the antebellum South, plantation physicians used a new medical device—the spirometer—to show that lung volume and therefore vital capacity were supposedly less in black slaves than in white citizens. At the end of the Civil War, a large study of racial difference employing the spirometer appeared to confirm the finding, which was then applied to ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Fantasies of Identification

    Disability, Gender, Race

    by Ellen Samuels ...
    Series series Cultural Front
    Explores the roots of modern understandings of bodily identityIn the mid-nineteenth-century United States, as it became increasingly difficult to distinguish between bodies understood as black, white, or Indian; able-bodied or disabled; and male or female, intense efforts emerged to define these identities as biologically distinct and scientifically verifiable in a literally marked body. Combining ... Read more

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  • Woman of Valor

    Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America

    by Ellen Chesler ...
    This illuminating biography of Margaret Sanger—the woman who fought for birth control in America—describes her childhood, her private life, her relationships with Emma Goldman and John Reed, her public role, and more.Margaret Sanger went to jail in 1917 for distributing contraceptives to immigrant women in a makeshift clinic in Brooklyn. She died a half-century later, just after the Supreme Court ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Examining Tuskegee

    The Infamous Syphilis Study and Its Legacy

    by Susan M. Reverby ...
    Series series The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
    The forty-year Tuskegee Syphilis Study, which took place in and around Tuskegee, Alabama, from the 1930s through the 1970s, has become a profound metaphor for medical racism, government malfeasance, and physician arrogance. Susan M. Reverby’s Examining Tuskegee is a comprehensive analysis of the notorious study of untreated syphilis among African American men, who were told by U.S. Public Health ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Citizen Machine

    Governing by Television in 1950s America

    by Anna McCarthy ...
    The Citizen Machine is the untold political history of television's formative era. Historian Anna McCarthy goes behind the scenes of early television programming, revealing that long before the age of PBS, leaders from business, philanthropy, and social reform movements as well as public intellectuals were all obsessively concerned with TV's potential to mold the right kind of citizen.Based on ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What Is Curriculum Theory?

    by William F. Pinar ...
    Series series Studies in Curriculum Theory Series
    This primer for prospective and practicing teachers asks students to question the historical present and their relation to it, and in so doing, reflect on their own understandings of what it means to teach, to study, to educate, and to become educated in the present moment in the places we inhabit.Not only the implementation of objectives to be assessed by standardized tests, curriculum is ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Black Culture and Experience

    Contemporary Issues

    Edited by Venise T. Berry, Anita Fleming-Rife, Ayo Dayo ...
    Series Book 71 - Black Studies and Critical Thinking
    Black Culture and Experience: Contemporary Issues offers a holistic look at Black culture in the twenty-first century. It is a collection of work that creates a synergy among authors and leads to a valuable resource on contemporary issues. Part One examines institutional, societal, and political issues like identity politics; the Rooney Rule; prosperity gospel; inequality in the criminal justice ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Why Americans Hate the Media and How It Matters

    by Jonathan M. Ladd ...
    As recently as the early 1970s, the news media was one of the most respected institutions in the United States. Yet by the 1990s, this trust had all but evaporated. Why has confidence in the press declined so dramatically over the past 40 years? And has this change shaped the public's political behavior? This book examines waning public trust in the institutional news media within the context of ... Read more

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