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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.
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 ......
Reform and the Politics of Womanhood in America, 1873-1935
''A provocative study of debates about obscenity on the local level. Wheeler's book provides much-needed perspective on the late feminist 'porn wars,' and, finally, gives women activists on both sides of the debate their due.''Andrea Friedman, Washington University''Beautifully written and beautifully crafted. It makes a strikingly original ......
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 ......
Efforts to understand the impact of the Vietnam War on America began soon after it ended, and they continue to the present day. In After Vietnam four distinguished scholars focus on different elements of the war's legacy, while one of the major architects of the conflict, former defense secretary Robert S. McNamara, contributes a final chapter ......
Gender and Democracy in El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Guatemala
''Gender equality and meaningful democratization are inextricably linked,'' writes Ilja Luciak. ''The democratization of Central America requires the full incorporation of women as voters, candidates, and office holders.'' In After the Revolution: Gender and Democracy in El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Guatemala, Luciak shows how former guerrilla ......
''It is a glorious country,'' exclaimed Stephen J Field, the future U.S. Supreme Court justice, upon arriving in California in 1849. Field's pronouncement was more than just an expression of exuberance. For an electrifying moment, he and another 100,000 hopeful gold miners found themselves face-to-face with something commensurate to their capacity ......
Imagining the Global Environment in Early Modern Europe
Many centuries before the emergence of the scientific consensus on climate change, people began to imagine the existence of a global environment: a natural system capable of changing humans and of being changed by them. In After the Flood, Lydia Barnett traces the history of this idea back to the early modern period, when the Scientific ......
''Like mourning itself, this powerful book, much of it in the words of bereaved parents, evokes a series of reactions . . . It illustrates the hard fact [of human suffering] but also our resilience.''--New York Times ''The first book to examine the long-term nature of parental grief through the tales of those who suffer it. Although the book ......
