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A portrait of two important black social scientists and a broader
history of race relations, this important work captures the
vitality and chaos of post-war politics in New York, recasting the
story of the civil rights movement.
In the wake of World War II, as turmoil and chaos were giving way
to a spirit of optimism, Americans were looking for inspiration and
role models showing that it was possible to start from the bottom
and work your way up to the top-and they found it in Stymie, the
failed racehorse plucked from the discard heap by trainer Hirsch
Jacobs. Like Stymie, Jacobs was a commoner in "The Sport of Kings,"
a dirt-poor Brooklyn city slicker who forged an unlikely career as
racing's winningest trainer by buying cheap, unsound nags and
magically transforming them into winners. The $1,500 pittance
Jacobs paid to claim Stymie became history's biggest bargain as the
ultimate iron horse went on to run a whopping 131 races and win 25
stakes, becoming the first Thoroughbred ever to earn more than
$900,000. The Cinderella champion nicknamed "The People's Horse"
captivated the masses with his rousing charge-from-behind stretch
runs, his gritty blue-collar work ethic, and his rags-to-riches
success story. In a golden age when horse racing rivaled baseball
and boxing as America's most popular pastime, he was every bit as
inspiring a sports hero as Joe DiMaggio and Joe Louis. Taking
readers on a crowd-pleasing ride with Stymie and Jacobs, Out of the
Clouds -- the winner of the Dr. Tony Ryan Book Award -- unwinds a
real-life Horatio Alger tale of a dauntless team and its
working-class fans who lived vicariously through the stouthearted
little colt they embraced as their own.
Children, Race and Power is a highly acclaimed social history which examines how race and class affect child development. Winner of the American Public Health Association's Viseltear Award for outstanding work in the history of public health, this book is a portrait of two important black social scientists and a broader history of race relations. This important book captures the vitality and chaos of post-war politics in New York recasting the story of the civil rights movement.
This work, examines the transformation of American hospitals
from a series of community- based charitable institutions into the
large, bureaucratic system that existed by the end of the
Progressive era.
Originally published in 1986.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these
important books while presenting them in durable paperback
editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly
increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the
thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since
its founding in 1905.
Commissioned to mark the 50th anniversary of the National Academy
of Medicine (NAM; formerly the Institute of Medicine [IOM]), this
volume describes the circumstances that led to the IOM's founding
in 1970, the members and leaders who built and sustained the
organization, and the process by which the IOM became the NAM in
2015. The volume also details a selection of the IOM/NAM's most
influential contributions to biomedical science, U.S. health care,
and population health and concludes with the story of how the
organization navigated unprecedented national and global crises
between 2015 and 2021. Table of Contents Front Matter Part I:
Institutional History 1 The Founding of the Institute of Medicine 2
A Commitment to Service: Members and Leaders of the Institute of
Medicine and the National Academy of Medicine 3 The Creation of the
National Academy of Medicine Part II: Impact 4 Biomedical Science 5
U.S. Health Care and Policy 6 Advancing the Health of the Public in
the United States and Globally Part III: A New Era: The Early Years
of the National Academy of Medicine 7 Responding to National and
Global Crises, 20152021 8 Conclusion Epilogue Bibliography Editor
and Author Biographies
Tomdisaptch.com has established itself as the go-to blog for
contemporary US politics, and the favored web platform for radical
commentators from Noam Chomsky to Howard Zinn. Its powerful,
no-holds-barred features draw a huge response from the public and
resonate throughout the global media, acting as a touchpaper for
debates which subsequently become headline news. This comprehensive
volume offers readers a chance to catch up on some of the finest
political analysis of our age, including trenchant accounts of the
two Bush administrations' catastrophic imperial adventures in
Afghanistan and Iraq; Guantanamo, extraordinary rendition and its
apologists; and Hurricane Katrina, global warming, black gold and
the rise of Hugo Chavez.Introduced, arranged and with additional
commentary throughout by the blog's founder Tom Engelhardt, The
World According to Tomdispatch is the essential primer for anyone
seeking illumination and guidance along the highways and byways of
our post-9/11 world.
"Deceit and Denial" details the attempts by the chemical and lead
industries to deceive Americans about the dangers that their deadly
products present to workers, the public, and consumers. Gerald
Markowitz and David Rosner pursued evidence steadily and
relentlessly, interviewed the important players, investigated
untapped sources, and uncovered a bruising story of cynical and
cruel disregard for health and human rights. This resulting expose
is full of startling revelations, provocative arguments, and
disturbing conclusions - all based on remarkable research and
information gleaned from secret industry documents. This book
reveals for the first time the public relations campaign that the
lead industry undertook to convince Americans to use its deadly
product to paint walls, toys, furniture, and other objects in
America's homes, despite a wealth of information that children were
at risk for serious brain damage and death from ingesting this
poison. This book highlights the immediate dangers ordinary
citizens face because of the relentless failure of industrial
polluters to warn, inform, and protect their workers and neighbors.
It offers a historical analysis of how corporate control over
scientific research has undermined the process of proving the links
between toxic chemicals and disease. The authors also describe the
wisdom, courage, and determination of workers and community members
who continue to voice their concerns in spite of vicious
opposition. Readable, ground-breaking, and revelatory, "Deceit and
Denial" provides crucial answers to questions of dangerous
environmental degradation, escalating corporate greed, and
governmental disregard for its citizens' safety and health. After
eleven years, Markowitz and Rosner update their work with a new
epilogue that outlines the attempts these industries have made to
undermine and create doubt about the accuracy of the information in
this book.
In this incisive examination of lead poisoning during the past half
century, Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner focus on one of the most
contentious and bitter battles in the history of public health.
"Lead Wars" details how the nature of the epidemic has changed and
highlights the dilemmas public health agencies face today in terms
of prevention strategies and chronic illness linked to low levels
of toxic exposure. The authors use the opinion by Maryland's Court
of Appeals--which considered whether researchers at Johns Hopkins
University's prestigious Kennedy Krieger Institute (KKI) engaged in
unethical research on 108 African-American children--as a
springboard to ask fundamental questions about the practice and
future of public health. "Lead Wars" chronicles the obstacles faced
by public health workers in the conservative, pro-business,
anti-regulatory climate that took off in the Reagan years and that
stymied efforts to eliminate lead from the environments and the
bodies of American children.
THE CONCUSSION CRISIS brings an explosive but largely unseen
epidemic out of the shadows. It puts a human face on a pressing
public health crisis through poignant stories of athletes (from the
peewees to the pros), soldiers, and others whose lives have been
forever changed by jolts to the head and brain. Weaving their
cautionary tales with a clear and accessible explanation of the
advancing science and medicine, "The Concussion Crisis "is the
definitive exploration of the invisible injury behind today's
alarming headlines. Journalists Linda Carroll and David Rosner
sound an urgent wake-up call to every family and argue for changing
a macho culture that refuses to treat concussion seriously as the
traumatic brain injury it is.
An 1865 report on public health in New York painted a grim picture
of "high brick blocks and closely-packed houses . . . literally
hives of sickness" propagating epidemics of cholera, smallpox,
typhoid, typhus, and yellow fever, which swept through the whole
city. In this stimulating collection of essays, nine historians of
American medicine explore New York's responses to its public health
crises from colonial times to the present. The essays illustrate
the relationship between the disease environment of New York and
changes in housing, population, social conditions, and the success
of medical science, linking such factors to New York's experiences
with smallpox, polio, and AIDS. The volume is essential reading for
anyone interested in American public health and the social history
of New York. The volume is essential reading for anyone interested
in American public health and the social history of New York. The
contributors are Ronald Bayer, Elizabeth Blackmar, Gretchen A.
Condran, Elizabeth Fee, Daniel M. Fox, Evelynn M. Hammonds, Alan M.
Kraut, Judith Walzer Leavitt, and Naomi Rogers. David Rosner is a
professor of history at Baruch College and The Graduate School of
the City University of New York. Robert R. Macdonald is the
director of the Museum of the City of New York.
This pathbreaking volume explores the history of occupational
safety and health in America from the late nineteenth century to
the 1950s. Thirteen essays tell a story of the exploitation of
workers as measured by shortened lives, high disease rates, and
painful injuries. Scholars from a variety of disciplines examine
the history of protection and compensation for injured workers,
state and federal involvement, controversies over the dangers of
lead, and the three emblematic industrial diseases of this century
radium poisoning, asbestos-related diseases, and brown lung."
A contemporary history of a critical period, "Are We Ready?
"analyzes the impact of 9/11, the anthrax attacks that followed,
and preparations for a possible smallpox attack on the nation's
public health infrastructure. David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz
interviewed local, state, and federal officials to determine the
immediate reactions of key participants in these events. The
authors explore the extent to which these emergencies permanently
altered the political, cultural, and organizational life of the
country and consider whether the nation is now better prepared to
withstand another potentially devastating attack. This
well-reasoned and well-researched book presents compelling evidence
that few with hands-on experience with disease and emergency
preparedness believe that an adequate response to
terrorismOCowhether biological, chemical, or radiologicalOCois
possible without a strong and vibrant infrastructure to provide
everyday services as well as emergency responses. "Are We Ready?"
begins with an examination of the experiences of local New York
officials who were the first responders to 9/11 and follows them as
events unfolded and as state and national authorities arrived. It
goes on to analyze how various states dealt with changing federal
funding for a variety of public health services. Using oral
histories of CDC and other federal officials, the book then focuses
on the federal reaction to 9/11 and anthrax. What emerges is a
picture of dedicated public servants who were overcome by the
emotions of the moment yet who were able to react in ways that
significantly reduced the public anxiety and public health threat.
Despite the extraordinary opportunity to revitalize and
reinvigorate the nationOCOs public health infrastructure, the
growing federal and state budget deficits, the refocusing of
national attention on the war in Iraq, and the passage of time all
combined to undermine many of the needed reforms to the nationOCOs
public health defenses."Copub: Milbank Memorial Fund""
A social history of the health care system in New York City from the 1890s through the Progressive Era. Analyzes the dramatic reorganization of the hospital system from a series of idiosyncratic social welfare facilities into rationalized and bureaucratized medical institutions. Examines the political and financial struggles which accompanied the growth of the modern hospital system.
This 1982 book examines the changes in hospital care in New York
that occurred around the turn of the twentieth century. It
represents a fundamental departure from traditional medical
history, which has usually emphasised 'progress' through science
and technology. Professor Rosner identifies the economic, political
and demographic pressures that brought about a reshaping of the
health care system, and analyses the dramatic reorganisation of
hospitals that took place. He also discusses major scientific
advances such as the discovery of anaesthetic properties of ether,
nitrous oxide and chloroform, and the consequent increase in
surgical solutions to medical problems.
This work, examines the transformation of American hospitals from a
series of community- based charitable institutions into the large,
bureaucratic system that existed by the end of the Progressive era.
Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the
latest print-on-demand technology to again make available
previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of
Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original
texts of these important books while presenting them in durable
paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy
Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage
found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University
Press since its founding in 1905.
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