Flatlined
Resuscitating American Medicine
Flatlined lifts the veil of secrecy on twenty-first century health care and delves into the realities of good people caught in a bad medical system. Dr. Guy L. Clifton, a practitioner as well as a policy advocate, reveals first-hand accounts of needless tragedy, such as the young man who died after a car wreck for lack of a bed in a qualified hospital and the surgeon who was dejected by the scarcity of resources needed to enable him to perform heart surgery on an uninsured man.
Arguing that a lack of coordinated care and quality medical practice benchmarks result in high levels of redundancy and ineffectiveness, Clifton proposes that the key to reducing health care costs, improving quality, and financially protecting the uninsured, is to reduce wastefulness, and offers a solution for achieving success.
Flatlined sounds the warning call: By 2018 Medicare and Medicaid will consume about one-third of the federal budget. American businesses now pay three times as much of their payroll for health care as global competitors, expected to worsen as health care grows at twice the rate of the U.S. economy. Based on his years of experience in policy and medicine, Clifton offers an attainable solution through the development of an American Medical Quality System.
The Animated Bestiary
Animals, Cartoons, and Culture
Second Star to the Right
Peter Pan in the Popular Imagination
Since 2003 the characters from this story have had a highly visible presence in nearly every genre of popular culture: two major films, a literary sequel to the original adventures, a graphic novel featuring a grown-up Wendy Darling, and an Argentinean novel about a children's book writer inspired by J. M. Barrie. Simultaneously, Barrie surfaced as the subject of two major biographies and a feature film. The engaging essays in Second Star to the Right approach Pan from literary, dramatic, film, television, and sociological perspectives and, in the process, analyze his emergence and preservation in the cultural imagination.
Aftermaths
Exile, Migration, and Diaspora Reconsidered
Veins of Devotion
Blood Donation and Religious Experience in North India
Doing Diversity in Higher Education
Faculty Leaders Share Challenges and Strategies
Milk Teeth
A Memoir of a Woman and Her Dog
An Uncertain Cure
Living with Leprosy in Brazil
Medical Research for Hire
The Political Economy of Pharmaceutical Clinical Trials
Inventing Modern Adolescence
The Children of Immigrants in Turn-of-the-Century America
Christmas Trees for Pleasure and Profit
Revisiting Race in a Genomic Age
Essays explore a range of topics that include drug development and the production of race-based therapeutics, the ways in which genetics could contribute to future health disparities, the social implications of ancestry mapping, and the impact of emerging race and genetics research on public policy and the media.
American Cinema of the 1990s
Themes and Variations
To Test or Not To Test
A Guide to Genetic Screening and Risk
Black Robes, White Coats
The Puzzle of Judicial Policymaking and Scientific Evidence
New Jersey Cemeteries and Tombstones
History in the Landscape
New Jersey Cemeteries and Tombstones presents a culturally diverse account of New Jersey’s historic burial places from High Point to Cape May and from the banks of the Delaware to the ocean-washed Shore, to explain what cemeteries tell us about people and the communities in which they lived.
Horrors of Slavery
Or, The American Tars in Tripoli
Hester Blum's introduction situates Horrors of Slavery in its literary, historical, and political contexts, bringing to light a crucial episode in the early history of our country's relations with Islamic states.
A volume in the Subterranean Lives series, edited by Bradford Verter
The Public Life of the Fetal Sonogram
Technology, Consumption, and the Politics of Reproduction
From that Place and Time
A Memoir, 1938-1947
Hollywood Faith
Holiness, Prosperity, and Ambition in a Los Angeles Church
In Hollywood Faith, Gerardo Marti shows how a multiracial evangelical congregation of 2,000 people accommodates itself to the entertainment industry and draws in many striving to succeed in this harsh and irreverent business. Oasis strategically sanctifies ambition and negotiates social change by promoting a new religious identity as "champion of life"-an identity that provides people who face difficult career choices and failed opportunities a sense of empowerment and endurance.
The first book to provide an in-depth look at religion among the "creative class," Hollywood Faith will fascinate those interested in the modern evangelical movement and anyone who wants to understand how religion adapts to social change.
Guidebook for the Scientific Traveler
Visiting Astronomy and Space Exploration Sites across America
Under the Radar
Cancer and the Cold War
Blood Passion
The Ludlow Massacre and Class War in the American West, First Paperback Edition
Postzionism
A Reader
Postzionism first emerged in the mid-1980s in writings by historians and social scientists that challenged the dominant academic versions of Israeli history, society, and national identity. Subsequently, this critique was expanded and sharpened in the writings of philosophers, cultural critics, legal scholars, and public intellectuals.
This reader provides a broad spectrum of innovative and highly controversial views on Zionism and its place in the global Jewish world of the twenty-first century. While not questioning Israel’s legitimacy as a state, many contributors argue that it has yet to become a fully democratic, pluralistic state in which power is shared among all of its citizens. Essays explore current attitudes about Jewish homeland and diaspora as well as the ways that zionist discourse contributes to the marginalization and exclusion of such minority communities as Palestinian citizens, Jews of Middle-Eastern origin (Mizrahim), women, and the queer community.
An introductory essay describes Postzionism and contextualizes each contribution within the broader discourse. The most complete collection of postzionist documents available in English, this anthology is essential reading for students and scholars of Jewish identity, Middle-Eastern conflict, and Israeli history.
What Were They Thinking?
Crisis Communication: The Good, the Bad, and the Totally Clueless
Security Disarmed
Critical Perspectives on Gender, Race, and Militarization
In Security Disarmed, scholars, policy planners, and activists come together to think critically about the human cost of violence and viable alternatives to armed conflict. Arranged in four parts--alternative paradigms of security, cross-national militarization, militarism in the United States, and pedagogical and cultural concerns--the book critically challenges militarization and voices an alternative encompassing vision of human security by analyzing the relationships among gender, race, and militarization.
Science Talk
Changing Notions of Science in American Culture
Doctors Serving People
Restoring Humanism to Medicine through Student Community Service
Backstory in Blue
Ellington at Newport '56
Crime, Punishment, and Mental Illness
Law and the Behavioral Sciences in Conflict
Covenant Marriage
The Movement to Reclaim Tradition in America
This book explores a movement that emerged over the past fifteen years, which aims to do just that. Guided by certain politicians and religious leaders who herald marriage as a solution to a range of longstanding social problems, a handful of state governments enacted "covenant marriage" laws, which require couples to choose between a conventional and a covenant marriage. While the familiar type of union requires little effort to enter and can be terminated by either party unilaterally, covenant marriage requires premarital counseling, an agreement bound by fault-based rules or lengthy waiting periods to exit, and a legal stipulation that divorce can be granted only after the couple has received counseling.
Citizenship, Political Engagement, and Belonging
Immigrants in Europe and the United States
Bookmarks
Reading in Black and White, First Paperback Edition
Metroburbia, USA
The War on Human Trafficking
U.S. Policy Assessed
Zora Neale Hurston
Collected Plays
Even avid readers of Hurston’s prose, however, may be surprised to know that she was also a serious and ambitious playwright throughout her career. Although several of her plays were produced during her lifetime—and some to public acclaim—they have languished in obscurity for years. Even now, most critics and historians gloss over these texts, treating them as supplementary material for understanding her novels. Yet, Hurston’s dramatic works stand on their own merits and independently of her fiction.
Now, eleven of these forgotten dramatic writings are being published together for the first time in this carefully edited and annotated volume. Filled with lively characters, vibrant images of rural and city life, biblical and folk tales, voodoo, and, most importantly, the blues, readers will discover a “real Negro theater” that embraces all the richness of black life.
Risky Lessons
Sex Education and Social Inequality
Rebels All!
Rebels All! A Short History of the Conservative Mind in Postwar America
Do Butterflies Bite?
Fascinating Answers to Questions about Butterflies and Moths
Screening Genders
The American Science Fiction Film
The first comprehensive overview of the history of gender theory in film, this book is an ideal text for courses and will serve as a foundation for further discussion among students and scholars alike.