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Reform and the Politics of Womanhood in America, 1873-1935
Radio 'shock jocks,' Super Bowl entertainment, music videos, and internet spam -- all of these topics inspire passionate disagreements about whether and how to regulate sexually explicit material. But even in the midst of heated debate, most people agree that children should be shielded from exposure to pornographic images. Why are children the ......
The French Impulse in Nineteenth-Century American Medicine
In this wide-ranging exploration of American medical culture, John Harley Warner offers the first in-depth study of a powerful intellectual and social influence: the radical empiricism of the Paris Clinical School. After the French Revolution, Paris emerged as the most vibrant center of Western medicine, bringing fundamental changes in ......
Although Americans have long celebrated their nation's diversity, they also have consistently harbored suspicions of foreign peoples both at home and abroad. In Age of Fear, Zachary Smith argues that, as World War I grew more menacing and the presumed German threat loomed over the United States, many white ""Anglo-Saxon"" Americans grew ......
Understanding the Development of Modern Social Science
Before the Second World War, social scientists struggled to define and defend their disciplines. After the war, 'high modern' social scientists harnessed new resources in a quest to create a unified understanding of human behaviour and to remake the world in the image of their new model man.In Age of System, Hunter Heyck explains why social ......
In this deeply considered meditation on ageing in Western culture, Jan Baars argues that, in today's world, living longer does not necessarily mean living better. He contends that there has been an overall loss of respect for ageing, to the point that understanding and ''dealing with'' ageing people has become a process focused on the decline of ......
Both jobs and the workforce have changed dramatically in recent years. Manufacturing has given way to a technology - driven, information - based workplace. People are working until later in life and the pool of workers is growing more diverse. Flexible hours and telecommuting are increasingly common. This volume addresses the challenges ......
In the middle of the twentieth century, few physicians could have predicted that the modern diagnostic category of osteoporosis would emerge to include millions of Americans, predominantly older women. Before World War II, popular attitudes held that the declining physical and mental health of older persons was neither preventable nor reversible ......
The Economics and Politics of Growing Older in America
With the impending retirement of some 76 million baby boomers in a period of huge government deficits, public anxiety about the social and economic health of an aging nation is widespread. The policy debates are contentious -- from deciding who should receive limited subsidized housing and medical services to the ongoing battle over 'saving' ......
Never in human history have there been so many people entering old ageroughly one-third of whom will experience some form of neurodegeneration as they age. This seismic demographic shift will force us all to rethink how we live and deal with our aging population.Susan H McFadden and John T McFadden propose a radical reconstruction of our societal ......
