Medical Identities

Medical IdentitiesIllness and misfortune more broadly are ubiquitous; thus, healing roles or professions are also universal. Ironically, however, little attention has been paid to those who heal or promote wellbeing. These come in many different guises: in some societies, healing is highly professional and specialized; in some cases, it is more preventative, in others more interventionist. Based on rich and wide ranging ethnographic data and especially written for this

--Karen Doty-Sweetnam

Hollywood's role

Intersecting Diasporas examines literary expressions of allyship between Italian America and other diasporic communities in modern and contemporary US fiction

It further outlines the performance of subjectivity

Sami Mahdi

The middle-aged

from the days of Horace Mann and Alfred Binet to the current scene

The book emphasizes the important role played by immigrant activists

The Empress and the Dragon Throne spans the first Ming century from just before the founding of the dynasty in 1368 to the end of the Tianshun reign in 1465

Coe's drafts of reconstructions of destroyed offerings and typologies for ceremonial lithics and shell "Charlie Chaplin" figurines

often incompatible objectives

they each entertained diverse and complex relationships to (post)colonial ideology