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With critically acclaimed titles in history, science, higher education, health and wellness, humanities, classics, and public health, the Books Division publishes 150 new books each year and maintains a backlist in excess of 3,000 titles. With warehouses on three continents, worldwide sales representation, and a robust digital publishing program, the Books Division connects Hopkins authors to scholars, experts, and educational and research institutions around the world.
Self-mutilation, Nonsuicidal Self-injury, and Body Modification in Culture and Psychiatry
A quarter century after it was first published, Bodies under Siege remains the classic, authoritative book on self-mutilation. Now in its third edition, this invaluable work is updated throughout with findings from hundreds of new studies, discussions of new models of self-injury, an assessment of the S.A.F.E. (Self Abuse Finally Ends) program, ......
Self-mutilation, Nonsuicidal Self-injury, and Body Modification in Culture and Psychiatry
A quarter century after it was first published, Bodies under Siege remains the classic, authoritative book on self-mutilation. Now in its third edition, this invaluable work is updated throughout with findings from hundreds of new studies, discussions of new models of self-injury, an assessment of the S.A.F.E. (Self Abuse Finally Ends) program, ......
Between 1730 and 1830, the lives of conquered Indians, enslaved Africans, and Anglo-Americans in southern New England became densely interwoven -- but also complicated by -- racial identities and finally divided by custom and law. In Bodies Politic, John Wood Sweet argues that the coming together of different peoples in early Rhode Island ......
Medicine and the Politics of the English Inquest, 1830-1926
In Bodies of Evidence, Ian Burney offers an important reinterpretation of the role of the scientific expert in the modern democratic state. At the core of this study lies the coroner's inquestthe ancient tribunal in English law held to account for cases of unexplained death. During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, representatives of ......
While many are hearing the human rights call-including some doctors persuaded by their adult patients' stories of unnecessary surgeries and the resultant psychological and physical harms-controversies persist, and Reis explains here why best practices in this field remain fiercely contested.
Liberalism, Democracy, and Working People in American Film
From Tom Joad to Norma Rae to Spike Lee's Mookie in Do the Right Thing , Hollywood has regularly dramatized the lives and struggles of working people in America. Ranging from idealistic to hopeless, from sympathetic to condescending, these portrayals confronted audiences with the vital economic, social, and political issues of their times while ......
Liberalism, Democracy, and Working People in American Film
From Tom Joad to Norma Rae to Spike Lee's Mookie in Do the Right Thing, Hollywood has regularly dramatized the lives and struggles of working people in America. Ranging from idealistic to hopeless, from sympathetic to condescending, these portrayals confronted audiences with the vital economic, social, and political issues of their times while ......
John Hollander's 'Blue Wine and Other Poems,' his first collection of verse since the appearance of his new and selected poems, 'Spectral Emanations,' shows one of our best poetic craftsmen in America moving into a new phase in his distinguished career.Poems on painting and sculpture, in which Hollander examines the static/dynamic interaction of ......
An Innovative Plan to Fight Diseases of the Poor amid Wealth
In 2011, Dr. Peter J. Hotez relocated to Houston to launch Baylor's National School of Tropical Medicine. He was shocked to discover that a number of neglected diseases often associated with developing countries were widespread in impoverished Texas communities. Despite the United States' economic prowess and first-world status, an estimated ......
