Author: Luke Demaitre
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Pre
Keywords: whole, malady, medicine, premodern, leprosy
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 2007-06-27
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0801886139
ISBN-13: 9780801886133

While premodern poets and preachers viewed leprosy as a "disease of the soul," physicians in the period understood it to be a "cancer of the whole body." In this innovative study, medical historian Luke Demaitre explores medical and social perspectives on leprosy at a time when judicious diagnosis could spare healthy people from social ostracization and help the afflicted get a license to beg.Extending his inquiry from the first century to late in the eighteenth century, Demaitre draws on translations of academic treatises and archival records to illuminate the professional standing, knowledge

Author: Judith Sealander
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Pre
Keywords: policy, social, progressive, era, new, american, reshaping, public, wealth, life, foundation, philanthropy, private
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 1997-03-24
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0801854601
ISBN-13: 9780801854606

In Private Wealth and Public Life, historian Judith Sealander analyzes the role played by private philanthropic foundations in shaping public policy during the early years of this century. Focusing on foundation-sponsored attempts to influence policy in the areas of education, social welfare, and public health, she addresses significant misunderstandings about the place of philanthropic foundations in American life. Between 1903 and 1932, fewer than a dozen philanthropic organizations controlled most of the hundreds of millions of dollars given to various causes. Among these, Sealander finds,

Author: Lucy Maddox
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Pre
Keywords: discipline, evolution, studies, american, locating
Number of Pages: 456
Published: 1998-10-29
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0801860563
ISBN-13: 9780801860560

Locating American Studies is a collection of seventeen essays first printed in American Quarterly, the journal of the American Studies Association. To mark the association’s celebration of its fiftieth anniversary in 1998, Lucy Maddox has brought together works by a distinguished group of scholars which "provide a useful window onto the history and the evolution of the practice of American studies from its early, formational days to the present." Each essay, originally published between 1950 and 1996, is accompanied by a commentary in which a scholar from a related field provides useful

Authors:John M. Freeman MD, Eileen P. G. Vining MD, Diana
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Pre
Keywords: press, health, book, hopkins, johns, epilepsy, childhood, guide, seizures
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2002-11-25
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0801870518
ISBN-13: 9780801870514

The award-winning Seizures and Epilepsy in Childhood is the standard resource for parents in need of comprehensive medical information about their child with epilepsy. Now in its third edition, this highly praised book has been thoroughly revised and updated to reflect the latest approaches to the diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy in childhood, including the use of the ketogenic diet as a treatment for children who either do not respond to traditional drug therapy or who suffer intolerable side effects from medications. In addition to providing up-to-date information about new diagnostic tec

Author: Yi-Fu Tua
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Pre
Keywords: escapism
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2000-07-25
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0801865409
ISBN-13: 9780801865404

"Who," writes the distinguished geographer Yi-Fu Tuan, "hasn’t--sometime--wanted to escape? But from what?" In his fascinating look at the idea of escape, Tuan suggests that all human culture is really a kind of flight, an evasive mechanism, a means of not facing facts: our shelters give us refuge from the weather, our cities give us protection against nature red in tooth and claw, our religion and institutions give us solace against the certainty of death. "A human being," he says wryly, "is an animal who is congenitally indisposed to accept reality as it is." Tuan examines the artifact

Author: Wolfgang Iser
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Pre
Keywords: response, aesthetic, theory, reading
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1980-02-01
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0801823714
ISBN-13: 9780801823718

Iser examines what happens during the reading process, and how it is basic to the development of a theory of aesthetic response, setting in motion a chain of events that depends both on the text and the exercise of certain human faculties.

Author: Wolfgang Iser
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Pre
Keywords: anthropology, literary, response, reader, prospecting
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 1993-02-01
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0801845939
ISBN-13: 9780801845932

"An important transitional book, usefully summarizing the past and thoughtfully mapping out the future of a significant critic’s theoretical project." -- Modern Philology."There is a much greater emphasis on the reader’s function as `performer’ of the text in Prospecting than in Iser’s other books. The two brilliant chapters on Beckett’s fiction and drama are crucial here... Literature becomes `play’ and `game,’ and the reader becomes a performer of himself. This idea of performance becomes central to Iser’s new theory. Art does not present life;