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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Case Studies -- Acknowledgements -- Chronology of 1950s American Culture -- Introduction: The Intellectual Context -- Chapter 1 Fiction and Poetry -- Chapter 2 Drama and Performance -- Chapter 3 Music and Radio -- Chapter 4 Film and Television -- Conclusion: Rethinking the 1950s -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

A history of U.S. public health emergencies and how we can turn the tide. Despite enormous advances in medical science and public health education over the last century, access to health care remains a dominant issue in American life. U.S. health care is often hailed as the best in the world, yet the public health emergencies of today often echo the public health emergencies of yesterday: consider the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918-19 and COVID-19, the displacement of the Dust Bowl and the havoc of Hurricane Maria, the Reagan administration's antipathy toward the AIDS epidemic and the lack of accountability during the water crisis in Flint, Michigan. Spanning the period from the presidency of Woodrow Wilson to that of Donald Trump, American Health Crisis illuminates how--despite the elevation of health care as a human right throughout the world--vulnerable communities in the United States continue to be victimized by structural inequalities across disparate geographies, income levels, and ethnic groups. Martin Halliwell views contemporary public health crises through the lens of historical and cultural revisionings, suturing individual events together into a narrative of calamity that has brought us to our current crisis in health politics. American Health Crisis considers the future of public health in the United States and, presenting a reinvigorated concept of health citizenship, argues that now is the moment to act for lasting change.

Halliwell examines the cultural history of modern American medicine and psychiatry focusing on the late twentieth century. He pays particular attention to the politics of the post-Watergate, bicentennial-era American nation and brings into conversation a diverse cast of writers, filmmakers, physicians, policy-makers, social critics, and public figures

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Therapeutic Revolutions of Postwar America -- Part One. Fragmentation: 1945–1953 -- Part Two. Organization: 1953–1961 -- Part Three. Reorganization: 1961–1970 -- Conclusion: Beyond the Two Cultures? -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author

This book provides a stimulating account of the dominant cultural forms of 1950s America: fiction and poetry; theatre and performance; film and television; music and radio; and the visual arts. Through detailed commentary and focused case studies of influential texts and events - from Invisible Man to West Side Story, from Disneyland to the Seattle World's Fair, from Rear Window to The Americans - the book examines the way in which modernism and the cold war offer two frames of reference for understanding the trajectory of postwar culture. The two core aims of this volume are to chart the changing complexion of American culture in the years following World War II and to provide readers with a critical investigation of 'the 1950s'. The book provides an intellectual context for approaching 1950s American culture and considers the historical impact of the decade on recent social and cultural developments. Key Features: Focused case studies featuring key texts, genres, writers, artists and cultural trends Chronology of 1950s American Culture Bibliographies for each chapter over twenty illustrations

"Half-truths set against half-truths" : James and Niebuhr -- A certain blindness to liberalism : Dewey and Niebuhr -- Crossing the invisible boundary : Tillich and Niebuhr -- "Soldiers in the same division" : the Niebuhr brothers -- "Digging about in the slime" : Niebuhr and American psychoanalysis -- The myths and dramas of history : Niebuhr and postwar culture -- "The Achilles heel of democracy" : Niebuhr and US foreign policy -- The new face of love : Niebuhr and the civil rights movement -- Conclusion : Niebuhr and the search for leadership

This collection examines the diverse, and often conflicted, political status of health in the USA from World War II to Covid-19. It moves beyond biomedical conceptions by using the lenses of class, poverty, race, gender, sexuality and locality to study the concepts, policies and lived realities of U.S. healthcare and medicine.

Romantic humanism : Shakespeare, Marx, Cixous -- Existential humanism : Sartre, Arendt, Fanon -- Dialogic humanism : Freud, Irigaray, Levinas -- Civic humanism : Wollstonecraft, Habermas, Hall -- Spiritual humanism : Benjamin, King, Kristeva -- Pagan humanism : Nietzsche, Bakhtin, Bataille -- Pragmatic humanism : James, Dewey, Rorty -- Technological humanism : Foucault, Baudrillard, Haraway -- Conclusion: Inhuman, posthuman, transhuman, human.

AbstractThis article considers the intersecting geographical, social, medical and political frameworks necessary to construct an understanding of mental health in Guyanese prisons, historically and in the present day. Taking an interdisciplinary approach to integrate archives, modern records and interviews, it looks first at colonial and independent state management of mental health impacts with respect to sentencing, incarceration and rehabilitation. It moves on to reflect on recent efforts to provide co‐ordinated policies and practices at national level to tackle more effectively moderate to severe mental health conditions. Here it shows that, as in the colonial period, prisoners and prison officials are typically neglected. Overall, our appreciation of the importance of what we term the coloniality of incarceration and public health enables us to deepen an understanding of the development and ongoing significance of approaches to mental ill health in the modern state, following Guyana's independence from colonial rule in 1966.

This volume focuses on the American philosopher and psychologist William James and his engagements with European thought, together with the multidisciplinary reception of his work on both sides of the Atlantic since his death. James participated in transatlantic conversations in science, philosophy, psychology, religion, ethics, and literature.

This volume focuses on the American philosopher and psychologist William James and his engagements with European thought, together with the multidisciplinary reception of his work on both sides of the Atlantic since his death. James participated in transatlantic conversations in science, philosophy, psychology, religion, ethics, and literature