Johns Hopkins University Press provides authors with a reputable forum for evidence-based discourse and exposure to a worldwide audience.
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, ......
In Body and Story, Richard Terdiman explores the tension between what might seem to be two fundamentally different ways of understanding the world: as physical reality and as representation in language. In demonstrating the complicated relationship between these two pmodes of being, he also presents a new bold approach to the problem of conflicts ......
Improvising Meridians and Nerves in Global Chinese Medicine
A historical and cultural study of how representing invisible anatomical structures has reshaped our understanding of human anatomy. In Body Maps, Lan A. Li unveils a rich history of the hidden landscapes of the human body. This compelling study explores the world of "invisible" anatomy, explaining how hand-drawn body maps have shaped our ......
Culture, Politics, and the Boundaries of Bourgeois Life, 1830-1930
''The central attraction of this study lies in its imaginative grasp of these remarkable denizens (both declared and undeclared) of bohemia. Mr. Seigel has written a cultural history that respects the complex entanglements found in both life and art, and that is no mean feat.''--Arnold Weinstein, New York Times Book Review Exotic and yet familiar, ......
Originally published in 1978, this revised and expanded profile captures in vivid detail the unique style of one of Baltimore's oldest neighborhoods. Local historian Frank Remer Shivers, Jr., has lived in Bolton Hill since 1951. Weaving fond recollections, character sketches, and family histories with literary excerpts, newspaper references, and ......
Booker T. Washington, a founding father of African American education in the United States, has long been studied, revered, and reviled by scholars and students. Born into slavery, freed and raised in the Reconstruction South, and active in educational reform through the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Washington sought to use ......
Booker T. Washington, a founding father of African American education in the United States, has long been studied, revered, and reviled by scholars and students. Born into slavery, freed and raised in the Reconstruction South, and active in educational reform through the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Washington sought to use ......
Borderline personality disorder is a severe and complex psychiatric condition that, until recently, many considered nearly untreatable. People suffering from this disorder have problems coping with almost everything, therefore anything can provoke them to impulsive actions, angry outbursts, and self-destructive behaviors. Their personal ......
Borderline personality disorder is a severe and complex psychiatric condition that, until recently, many considered nearly untreatable. People suffering from this disorder have problems coping with almost everything, therefore anything can provoke them to impulsive actions, angry outbursts, and self-destructive behaviors. Their personal ......
