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The landmark Nursing Home Care Reform Act of 1987 mandated basic standards of care to ensure the physical, mental, and psychosocial wellbeing of residents. Yet little has changed since it was enacted. Highquality facilities continue to provide good care, while poorly operated ones remain substandard. This volume provides an original, ......
This groundbreaking study explores the later lives and late-life writings of more than two dozen British women authors active during the long eighteenth century.Drawing on biographical materials, literary texts, and reception histories, Devoney Looser finds that far from fading into moribund old age, female literary greats such as Anna Letitia ......
Neonatal intensive care has been one of the most morally controversial areas of medicine during the past thirty years. This study examines the interconnected development of four key aspects of neonatal intensive care: medical advances, ethical analysis, legal scrutiny, and econometric evaluation. The authors assert that a dramatic shift in ......
This broadly conceived and enlightening look at how Homer's Odyssey has resonated in the West offers a thematic analysis of the poem's impact on social and political ideas, institutions, and mores from the ancient world through the present day.
Proving that the epic poem is timeless, Edith Hall identifies fifteen key themes in the ......
Science, Risk, and the Politics of Hazard Mitigation
In 1906, after an earthquake wiped out much of San Francisco, leading California officials and scientists described the disaster as a one-time occurrence and assured the public that it had nothing to worry about. California Earthquakes explains how, over time, this attitude changed, and Californians came to accept earthquakes as a significant ......
The black box is actually orange - and there are two of them. They house the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder. But crash investigators cannot rely on the black boxes alone. This fascinating book shows how crash investigators, scientists, and engineers use physics and engineering to determine the probable cause of airplane ......
Charles E. Rosenberg, one of the world's most influential historians of medicine, presents a fascinating analysis of the current tensions in American medicine. Situating these tensions within their historical and social contexts, Rosenberg investigates the fundamental characteristics of medicine: how we think about disease, how the medical ......
Max Jammer's Concepts of Simultaneity presents a comprehensive, accessible account of the historical development of an important and controversial conceptwhich played a critical role in initiating modern theoretical physicsfrom the days of Egyptian hieroglyphs through to Einstein's work in 1905, and beyond. Beginning with the use of the concept ......
The book offers concise, comprehensive coverage of Williams-Beuren syndrome research and its clinical implications, including its genetics and molecular biology, neurobiological and behavioral traits, and medical problems and their management.
