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  • Before Disability

    A History of American Citizenship

    de Sari Altschuler ...
    Series series Early American Studies
    A literary, legal, and cultural history of disability, race, and citizenship between the Revolution and the Civil WarThe history of disability rights is often told as a recent one, but it is not. In the wake of the American Revolution, many of the differences we now call disabilities could be accommodated into citizenship—and for some even exemplified its promises. By the antebellum period, ... Leer más

    $32.99 USD

  • The Medical Imagination

    Literature and Health in the Early United States

    de Sari Altschuler ...
    Series series Early American Studies
    In 1872, Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, "Science does not know its debt to imagination," words that still ring true in the worlds of health and health care today. The checklists and clinical algorithms of modern medicine leave little space for imagination, and yet we depend on creativity and ingenuity for the advancement of medicine—to diagnose unusual conditions, to innovate treatment, and to make ... Leer más

    $28.79 USD

  • The Medical Imagination

    Literature and Health in the Early United States

    de Sari Altschuler ...
    Series series Early American Studies
    In 1872, Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, "Science does not know its debt to imagination," words that still ring true in the worlds of health and health care today. The checklists and clinical algorithms of modern medicine leave little space for imagination, and yet we depend on creativity and ingenuity for the advancement of medicine—to diagnose unusual conditions, to innovate treatment, and to make ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • Keywords for Health Humanities

    Edición de Sari Altschuler, Jonathan M. Metzl, Priscilla Wald ...
    Series Libro 10 - Keywords
    Introduces key concepts and debates in health humanities and the health professions.Keywords for Health Humanities provides a rich, interdisciplinary vocabulary for the burgeoning field of health humanities and, more broadly, for the study of medicine and health. Sixty-five entries by leading international scholars examine current practices, ideas, histories, and debates around health and illness, ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

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  • Beauty and the Brain

    The Science of Human Nature in Early America

    de Rachel E. Walker ...
    Examining the history of phrenology and physiognomy, Beauty and the Brain proposes a bold new way of understanding the connection between science, politics, and popular culture in early America.Between the 1770s and the 1860s, people all across the globe relied on physiognomy and phrenology to evaluate human worth. These once-popular but now-discredited disciplines were based on a deceptively ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • The Biopolitics of Childhood in the Long American 19th Century

    Edición de Lucia Hodgson, Allison Giffen ...
    Series series Children's Literature and Culture
    This edited collection contends that the figure of the child is foundational to the workings of biopolitical power yet remains undertheorized. The study of nineteenth-century biopolitics offers a theoretical framework that promises to increase our understanding of how modern democracies manage their subjects. Recent scholarship has invigorated interrogations into forms of state governance that ... Leer más

    $56.99 USD

  • Fugitive Science

    Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture

    de Britt Rusert ...
    Series Libro 10 - America and the Long 19th Century
    Honorable Mention, 2019 MLA Prize for a First BookSole Finalist Mention for the 2018 Lora Romero First Book Prize, presented by the American Studies AssociationExposes the influential work of a group of black artists to confront and refute scientific racism.Traversing the archives of early African American literature, performance, and visual culture, Britt Rusert uncovers the dynamic experiments ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Situation Critical

    Critique, Theory, and Early American Studies

    Edición de Max Cavitch, Brian Connolly ...
    The contributors to Situation Critical argue for the continued importance of critique to early American studies, pushing back against both reductivist neo-empiricism and so-called postcritique. Bringing together essays by a diverse group of historians and literary scholars, editors Max Cavitch and Brian Connolly demonstrate that critique is about acknowledging that we are never simply writing ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • Scenes of Subjection

    Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America

    de Saidiya Hartman, Marisa J. Fuentes, Sarah Haley, Cameron Rowland, Torkwase Dyson ...
    The groundbreaking debut by the award-winning author of Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, revised and updated.Saidiya Hartman has been praised as “one of our most brilliant contemporary thinkers” (Claudia Rankine, New York Times Book Review) and “a lodestar for a generation of students and, increasingly, for politically engaged people outside the academy” (Alexis Okeowo, The New Yorker). In ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

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  • Black on Both Sides

    A Racial History of Trans Identity

    de C. Riley Snorton ...
    Winner of the John Boswell Prize from the American Historical Association 2018Winner of the William Sanders Scarborough Prize from the Modern Language Association 2018Winner of an American Library Association Stonewall Honor 2018Winner of Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction 2018Winner of the Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies from the Center for Lesbian and Gay StudiesThe ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

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  • Entertaining Satan

    Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England

    de John Putnam Demos ...
    In the first edition of the Bancroft Prize-winning Entertaining Satan, John Putnam Demos presented an entirely new perspective on American witchcraft. By investigating the surviving historical documents of over a hundred actual witchcraft cases, he vividly recreated the world of New England during the witchcraft trials and brought to light fascinating information on the role of witchcraft in early ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • The Story of Pain

    From Prayer to Painkillers

    de Joanna Bourke ...
    Everyone knows what is feels like to be in pain. Scraped knees, toothaches, migraines, giving birth, cancer, heart attacks, and heartaches: pain permeates our entire lives. We also witness other people - loved ones - suffering, and we 'feel with' them. It is easy to assume this is the end of the story: 'pain-is-pain-is-pain', and that is all there is to say. But it is not. In fact, the way in ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD