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Therapeutic Revolutions examines the evolving relationship between American medicine, psychiatry, and culture from World War II to the dawn of the 1970s. In this richly layered intellectual history, Martin Halliwell ranges from national politics, public reports, and health care debates to the ways in which film, literature, and the mass media provided cultural channels for shaping and challenging preconceptions about health and illness.

Despite the fact that, statistically, women of low socioeconomic status (SES) experience greater difficulty conceiving children, infertility is generally understood to be a wealthy, white woman's issue. In Misconception, Ann V. Bell overturns such historically ingrained notions of infertility by examining the experiences of poor women and women of colour.

A provocative work that will prompt a thorough reevaluation of the culture of secondary education, Defining Student Success shows how different schools, promoting modified versions of larger cultural ideas of success, foster distinct understandings of what it takes to succeed--understandings that do more to reproduce a socioeconomic status quo than to promote upward mobility.

A century ago, only local charities existed to feed children. Today 368 million children receive school lunches in 151 countries, in programmes supported by state and national governments. Jennifer Geist Rutledge investigates how and why states have assumed responsibility for feeding children, chronicling the origins and spread of school lunch programs around the world.

Trafficked children are portrayed by the media - and even by child welfare specialists - as hapless victims who are forced to migrate from a poor country to the United States, where they serve as sex slaves. But as Elzbieta M. Gozdziak reveals in Trafficked Children in the United States, the picture is far more complex.

Examines how Latina/o cultural production has engaged with US militarism in the post-Vietnam era. Analysing literature alongside film, memoir and activism, Ariana E. Vigil highlights the productive interplay among social, political and cultural movements while exploring Latina/o responses to US intervention in Central America and the Middle East.

Offers an analysis of public health and family welfare through the lens of the tuberculosis preventorium. This book explains how the child-saving themes embedded in the preventorium movement continue to shape children's health care delivery and family policy in the United States.

Explores how societal beliefs about free will and moral responsibility have shaped policies and identifies the differences among the goals, ethos, and actions of the legal and health care systems. This book provides a critical analysis of topics, including legal standards for competency, insanity versus mental illness, and sex offenders.

Offers a look at the processes of immigration, political behavior, and citizenship in both the United States and Europe. This book contains essays, which draw on issues of race, national identity, and religion.

From its earliest days, the American film industry has attracted European artists. This book explores the influence of Jewish emigre directors and the development of this genre.

Presents an analysis of the creation of the Japanese national school system based primarily on Japanese-language documents, a major step forward in the scholarship on this subject.

Over the past fifty years, Puerto Rican voters have roundly rejected any calls for national independence. Yet the rhetoric and iconography of independence have been defining features of Puerto Rican literature and culture. In this provocative new book, Maria Acosta Cruz investigates the roots and effects of this profound disconnect between cultural fantasy and political reality.

For over a century, movies have played an important role in our lives, entertaining us, often provoking conversation and debate. This title examines film culture at the turn of this century, at the precise moment when digital media are altering our historical relationship with the movies.