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American Catholic Hospitals
InAmerican Catholic Hospitals, Barbra Mann Wall chronicles changes in Catholic hospitals during the twentieth century, many of which are emblematic of trends in the American healthcare system.
Wall explores the Church's struggle to safeguard its religious values. As hospital leaders reacted to increased political, economic, and societal secularization, they extended their religious principles in the areas of universal health care and adherence to the Ethical and Religious Values in Catholic Hospitals, leading to tensions between the Church, government, and society. The book also examines the power of women--as administrators, Catholic sisters wielded significant authority--as well as the gender disparity in these institutions which came to be run, for the most part, by men. Wall also situates these critical transformations within the context of the changing Church policy during the 1960s. She undertakes unprecedented analyses of the gendered politics of post-Second Vatican Council Catholic hospitals, as well as the effect of social movements on the practice of medicine.
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Political Thought and the Origins of the American Presidency
This volume examines the political ideas behind the construction
of the presidency in the U.S. Constitution, as well as how these
ideas were implemented by the nation's early presidents. The
framers of the Constitution disagreed about the scope of the new
executive role they were creating, and this volume reveals the ways
the duties and power of the office developed contrary to many
expectations.
Here, leading scholars of the early republic examine principles
from European thought and culture that were key to establishing the
conceptual language and institutional parameters for the American
executive office. Unpacking the debates at the 1787 Constitutional
Convention, these essays describe how the Constitution left room
for the first presidents to set patterns of behavior and establish
a range of duties to make the office functional within a
governmental system of checks and balances. Contributors explore
how these presidents understood their positions and fleshed out
their full responsibilities according to the everyday operations
required to succeed.
As disputes continue to surround the limits of executive power
today, this volume helps identify and explain the circumstances in
which limits can be imposed on presidents who seem to dangerously
exceed the constitutional parameters of their office. Political
Thought and the Origins of the American Presidency
demonstrates that this distinctive, time-tested role developed from
a fraught, historically contingent, and contested process.
Contributors: Claire Rydell Arcenas | Lindsay
M. Chervinsky | François Furstenberg | Jonathan Gienapp | Daniel J.
Hulsebosch | Ben Lowe | Max Skjönsberg | Eric Slauter | Caroline
Winterer | Blair Worden | Rosemarie Zagarri
A volume in the Alan B. and Charna Larkin Series on the American
Presidency
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This Violent Empire
This Violent Empiretraces the origins of American violence, racism, and paranoia to the founding moments of the new nation and the initial instability of Americans' national sense of self.Fusing cultural and political analyses to create a new form of political history, Carroll Smith-Rosenberg explores the ways the founding generation, lacking a common history, governmental infrastructures, and shared culture, solidified their national sense of self by imagining a series of \"Others\" (African Americans, Native Americans, women, the propertyless) whose differences from European American male founders overshadowed the differences that divided those founders. These \"Others,\" dangerous and polluting, had to be excluded from the European American body politic. Feared, but also desired, they refused to be marginalized, incurring increasingly enraged enactments of their political and social exclusion that shaped our long history of racism, xenophobia, and sexism. Close readings of political rhetoric during the Constitutional debates reveal the genesis of this long history.
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Presidents of war
\"Ten years in the research and writing, [this book] is a ... look at a procession of American leaders as they took the nation into conflict and mobilized their country for victory. It brings us into the room as they make the most difficult decisions that face any President, at times sending hundreds of thousands of American men and women to their deaths. From James Madison and the War of 1812 to recent times, we see them struggling with Congress, the courts, the press, their own advisors, and antiwar protesters; seeking comfort from their spouses, families, and friends; and dropping to their knees in prayer\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Lead wars
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.
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My weird school fast facts. Explorers, presidents, and toilets
Presents a treasury of facts and stories from U.S. history, including that the word \"independence\" does not appear in the Declaration of Independence and that World War I soldiers used glowworms to help them see at night.
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Civil War Monuments and the Militarization of America
This sweeping new assessment of Civil War monuments unveiled in the United States between the 1860s and 1930s argues that they were pivotal to a national embrace of military values. Americans' wariness of standing armies limited construction of war memorials in the early republic, Thomas J. Brown explains, and continued to influence commemoration after the Civil War. As large cities and small towns across the North and South installed an astonishing range of statues, memorial halls, and other sculptural and architectural tributes to Civil War heroes, communities debated the relationship of military service to civilian life through fund-raising campaigns, artistic designs, oratory, and ceremonial practices. Brown shows that distrust of standing armies gave way to broader enthusiasm for soldiers in the Gilded Age. Some important projects challenged the trend, but many Civil War monuments proposed new norms of discipline and vigor that lifted veterans to a favored political status and modeled racial and class hierarchies. A half century of Civil War commemoration reshaped remembrance of the American Revolution and guided American responses to World War I. Brown provides the most comprehensive overview of the American war memorial as a cultural form and reframes the national debate over Civil War monuments that remain potent presences on the civic landscape.
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