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What is Medical History?

By: John Chynoweth Burnham

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What is Medical History?

By: John Chynoweth Burnham

Written as a key introductory textbook for students, this work explores the reasons behind the expansion of the field of the history of medicine and health.

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172

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Polity

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0745632254

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9780745632254

Lots of Parking

Land Use in a Car Culture

By: John A. Jakle,Keith A. Sculle

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Lots of Parking

Land Use in a Car Culture

By: John A. Jakle,Keith A. Sculle

Like Jakle and Sculle's earlier works on car culture, Lots of Parking will fascinate professional planners, landscape designers, geographers, environmental historians, and interested citizens alike."--BOOK JACKET.

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322

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University of Virginia Press

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0813922666

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9780813922669

Hanging Together

Unity and Diversity in American Culture

By: John Higham

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Hanging Together

Unity and Diversity in American Culture

By: John Higham

This book presents three decades of writings by one of America's most distinguished historians. John Higham, renowned for his influential works on immigration, ethnicity, political symbolism, and the writing of history, here traces the changing contours of American culture since its beginnings, focusing on the ways that an extraordinarily mobile society has allowed divergent ethnic, class, and ideological groups to "hang together" as Americans. The book includes classic essays by Higham and more recent writings, some of which have been substantially revised for this publication. Topics range widely from the evolution of American national symbols and the fate of our national character to new perspectives on the New Deal, on other major turning points, and on changes in race relations after major American wars. Yet they are unified by an underlying theme: that a heterogeneous society and an inclusive national culture need each other.

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336

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Yale University Press

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0300129823

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9780300129823

Bad Habits

Drinking, Smoking, Taking Drugs, Gambling, Sexual Misbehavior, and Swearing in American History

By: John C. Burnham

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Bad Habits

Drinking, Smoking, Taking Drugs, Gambling, Sexual Misbehavior, and Swearing in American History

By: John C. Burnham

Seeks to discover why so many "good" people engage in activities that many, including themselves, consider "bad", finding a coalition of economic and social interest in which the singleminded quest for profit is allied to the values of the Victorian saloon underworld and bohemian rebelliousness.

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438

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NYU Press

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081471224X

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9780814712245

Accident Prone

A History of Technology, Psychology, and Misfits of the Machine Age

By: John Burnham

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Accident Prone

A History of Technology, Psychology, and Misfits of the Machine Age

By: John Burnham

Technology demands uniformity from human beings who encounter it. People encountering technology, however, differ from one another. Thinkers in the early twentieth century, observing the awful consequences of interactions between humans and machines—death by automobiles or dismemberment by factory machinery, for example—developed the idea of accident proneness: the tendency of a particular person to have more accidents than most people. In tracing this concept from its birth to its disappearance at the end of the twentieth century, Accident Prone offers a unique history of technology focused not on innovations but on their unintended consequences. Here, John C. Burnham shows that as the machine era progressed, the physical and economic impact of accidents coevolved with the rise of the insurance industry and trends in twentieth-century psychology. After World War I, psychologists determined that some people are more accident prone than others. This designation signaled a shift in social strategy toward minimizing accidents by diverting particular people away from dangerous environments. By the 1960s and 1970s, however, the idea of accident proneness gradually declined, and engineers developed new technologies to protect all people, thereby introducing a hidden, but radical, egalitarianism. Lying at the intersection of the history of technology, the history of medicine and psychology, and environmental history, Accident Prone is an ambitious intellectual analysis of the birth, growth, and decline of an idea that will interest anyone who wishes to understand how Western societies have grappled with the human costs of modern life.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226081192

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9780226081199

Health Care in America

A History

By: John C. Burnham

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Health Care in America

A History

By: John C. Burnham

This comprehensive history of medicine and public health in America covers changes and developments over four centuries, from the arrival of the first Europeans to the twenty-first century.

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611

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JHU Press

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1421416085

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9781421416083

Jelliffe

American Psychoanalyst and Physician and His Correspondence with Sigmund Freud and C. G. Jung

By: John Burnham

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Jelliffe

American Psychoanalyst and Physician and His Correspondence with Sigmund Freud and C. G. Jung

By: John Burnham

Most lives are restricted in focus and reflect relatively narrow aspects of their times. A few lives affect and reflect a broad range of human beings and human events. The subject of this book, Jelliffe, led a life of the latter kind.

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352

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University of Chicago Press

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0226081141

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9780226081144

The Gas Station in America

By: John A. Jakle,Keith A. Sculle

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The Gas Station in America

By: John A. Jakle,Keith A. Sculle

The first architect-designed gas station - a Pittsburgh Gulf station in 1913 - was also the first to offer free road maps; the familiar Shell name and logo date from 1907, when a British mother-of-pearl importer expanded its line to include the newly discovered oil of the Dutch East Indies; the first enclosed gas stations were built only after the first enclosed cars made motoring a year-round activity - and operating a service station was no longer a "seasonal" job; the system of "octane" rating was introduced by Sun Oil as a marketing gimmick (74 for premium in 1931)." "As the number of "true" gas stations continues its steady decline - from 239,000 in 1969 to fewer than 100,000 today - the words and images of this book bear witness to an economic and cultural phenomenon that was perhaps more uniquely American than any other of this century."--Jacket.

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572

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JHU Press

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0801869196

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9780801869198

Motoring

The Highway Experience in America

By: John A. Jakle,Keith A. Sculle

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Motoring

The Highway Experience in America

By: John A. Jakle,Keith A. Sculle

Motoring unmasks the forces that shape the American driving experience--commercial, aesthetic, cultural, mechanical--as it takes a timely look back at our historically unconditional love of motor travel. Focusing on recreational travel between 1900 and 1960, John A. Jakle and Keith A. Sculle cover dozens of topics related to drivers, cars, and highways and explain how they all converge to uphold that illusory notion of release and rejuvenation we call the "open road." Jakle and Sculle have collaborated on five previous books on the history, culture, and landscape of the American road. Here, with an emphasis on the driver's perspective, they discuss garages and gas stations, roadside tourist attractions, freeways and toll roads, truck stops, bus travel, the rise of the convenience store, and much more. All the while, the authors make us think about aspects of driving that are often taken for granted: how, for instance, the many lodging and food options along our highways reinforce the connection between driving and "freedom" and how, by enabling greater speeds, highway engineers helped to stoke motorists' "blessed fantasy of flight." Although driving originally celebrated freedom and touted a common experience, it has increasingly become a highly regulated, isolated activity. The motive behind America's first embrace of the automobile--individual prerogative--still substantially obscures this reality. "Americans did not have the automobile imposed on them," say the authors. Jakle and Sculle ask why some of the early prophetic warnings about our car culture went unheeded and why the arguments of its promoters resonated so persuasively. Today, the automobile is implicated in any number of environmental, even social, problems. As the wisdom of our dependence on automobile travel has come into serious question, reassessment of how we first became that way is more important than ever.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820330280

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9780820330280

Accident Prone

A History of Technology, Psychology, and Misfits of the Machine Age

By: John Burnham

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A History of Technology, Psychology, and Misfits of the Machine Age

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0226081176

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What is Medical History?

What is Medical History?

Lots of Parking

Lots of Parking

Hanging Together

Hanging Together

Bad Habits

Bad Habits

Accident Prone

Accident Prone

Health Care in America

Health Care in America

Jelliffe

Jelliffe

The Gas Station in America

The Gas Station in America

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Motoring

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