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Medicine's Dilemmas

Author : William L. Kissick
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300062526
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Medicine's Dilemmas written by William L. Kissick and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can the United States provide a health care program that offers a comprehensive package of the highest-quality health benefits to all Americans while containing health care costs? In this important book, Dr. William L. Kissick says that it cannot: no society in the world has sufficient resources to provide all the health services its population is capable of utilizing. Dr. Kissick was an active participant in the drafting of Medicare legislation in the 1960s and for the past twenty-five years has held joint positions in a medical school and a business school where he has specialized in health care management. Drawing on his long experience in the field, he discusses the dimensions of the current crisis, the financial and medical implications of alternative proposals--including the program put forth by the Clinton administration--and the requirements for long-term strategies. He argues that although there are no ideal solutions to health care reform, there are many significant programs at the regional, state, and local level that can serve as prototypes for the restructuring of the organization, financing, and delivery of health services. Dr. Kissick discusses some of these alternatives and suggests that after the federal government legislates a health care policy, it should be implemented through collaboration with state and local initiatives, for such programs have been built on an understanding of regional needs, expectations, and cultural diversity.

In This Remote Country

Author : Edward Watts
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469625865
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book In This Remote Country written by Edward Watts and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Anglo-Americans looked west after the Revolution, they hoped to see a blank slate upon which to build their continental republic. However, French settlers had inhabited the territory stretching from Ohio to Oregon for over a century, blending into Native American networks, economies, and communities. Images of these French settlers saturated nearly every American text concerned with the West. Edward Watts argues that these representations of French colonial culture played a significant role in developing the identity of the new nation. In regard to land, labor, gender, family, race, and religion, American interpretations of the French frontier became a means of sorting the empire builders from those with a more moderate and contained nation in mind, says Watts. Romantic nationalists such as George Bancroft, Francis Parkman, and Lyman Beecher used the French model to justify the construction of a nascent empire. Alternatively, writers such as Margaret Fuller, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and James Hall presented a less aggressive vision of the nation based on the colonial French themselves. By examining how representations of the French shaped these conversations, Watts offers an alternative view of antebellum culture wars.

One Vast Winter Count

Author : Colin Gordon Calloway
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496206355
Total Pages : 563 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book One Vast Winter Count written by Colin Gordon Calloway and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020-06-18 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This magnificent, sweeping work traces the histories of the Native peoples of the American West from their arrival thousands of years ago to the early years of the nineteenth century. Emphasizing conflict and change, One Vast Winter Count offers a new look at the early history of the region by blending ethnohistory, colonial history, and frontier history. Drawing on a wide range of oral and archival sources from across the West, Colin G. Calloway offers an unparalleled glimpse at the lives of generations of Native peoples in a western land soon to be overrun.

Dilemmas Facing the United States and Its People

Author : James A. Hudson
Publisher : Archway Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1480883387
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Dilemmas Facing the United States and Its People written by James A. Hudson and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States and its people currently face numerous dilemmas and troubles, and many around the world believe it to be in decline. As its superpower status comes into question, it's important to take note of the problems plaguing the nation and of the similarities between its path and those of former empires. In Dilemmas Facing the United States and Its People, author James A. Hudson considers the many factors contributing to the troubles facing the nation and its people and seeks to offer meaningful suggestions for solutions. From natural disasters and man-made calamities to political unrest and strife, the issues and conflicts of the United States require close and careful examination. Only with well-thought-out processes will the American people be able to unite rather than divide and educate the people instead of leaving many in darkness and ignorance. In search of a better future, we should help each person to rise instead of engaging in wanton greed and dishonesty. This study explores the various problems faced by the United States, describing the causes, effects, and possible solutions that can help build a brighter future for the nation's people.

The Standing Bear Controversy

Author : Valerie Sherer Mathes
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252028526
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (285 download)

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Download or read book The Standing Bear Controversy written by Valerie Sherer Mathes and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Valerie Sherer Mathes and Richard Lowitt examine how the national publicity surrounding the trial of Chief Standing Bear, as well as a speaking tour by the chief and others, brought the plight of his tribe, and of all Native Americans, to the attention of the general public, serving as a catalyst for the nineteenth-century Indian reform movement"--BOOK JACKET.

"That the People Might Live"

Author : Arnold Krupat
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801465850
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book "That the People Might Live" written by Arnold Krupat and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-05 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The word "elegy" comes from the Ancient Greek elogos, meaning a mournful poem or song, in particular, a song of grief in response to loss. Because mourning and memorialization are so deeply embedded in the human condition, all human societies have developed means for lamenting the dead, and, in "That the People Might Live" Arnold Krupat surveys the traditions of Native American elegiac expression over several centuries. Krupat covers a variety of oral performances of loss and renewal, including the Condolence Rites of the Iroquois and the memorial ceremony of the Tlingit people known as koo'eex, examining as well a number of Ghost Dance songs, which have been reinterpreted in culturally specific ways by many different tribal nations. Krupat treats elegiac "farewell" speeches of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in considerable detail, and comments on retrospective autobiographies by Black Hawk and Black Elk. Among contemporary Native writers, he looks at elegiac work by Linda Hogan, N. Scott Momaday, Gerald Vizenor, Sherman Alexie, Maurice Kenny, and Ralph Salisbury, among others. Despite differences of language and culture, he finds that death and loss are consistently felt by Native peoples both personally and socially: someone who had contributed to the People's well-being was now gone. Native American elegiac expression offered mourners consolation so that they might overcome their grief and renew their will to sustain communal life.

Dispersed but Not Destroyed

Author : Kathryn Magee Labelle
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 077482557X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book Dispersed but Not Destroyed written by Kathryn Magee Labelle and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2013-05-12 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Situated within the area stretching from Georgian Bay in the north to Lake Simcoe in the east, the Wendat Confederacy flourished for two hundred years. By the mid-seventeenth century, however, Wendat society was threatened by European disease and Iroquois attacks. Dispersed but Not Destroyed depicts the creation of a powerful Wendat diaspora in the wake of their dispersal and throughout the latter half of the century. Turning the story of the Wendat conquest on its head, this book demonstrates the resiliency of the Wendat people and writes a new chapter in North American history.

Voodoo Priests, Noble Savages, and Ozark Gypsies

Author : Greg Olson
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826272959
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book Voodoo Priests, Noble Savages, and Ozark Gypsies written by Greg Olson and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2012-11-16 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Folklorist Wayland Hand once called Mary Alicia Owen “the most famous American Woman Folklorist of her time.” Drawing on primary sources, such as maps, census records, court documents, personal letters and periodicals, and the scholarship of others who have analyzed various components of Owen’s multifaceted career, historian Greg Olson offers the most complete account of her life and work to date. He also offers a critical look at some of the short stories Owen penned, sometimes under the name Julia Scott, and discusses how the experience she gained as a fiction writer helped lead her to a successful career in folklore. Olson begins with an in-depth look at St. Joseph, Missouri, the place where Owen lived most of her life. He explores the role that her grandparents and parents had in transforming the small trading village into one of the American West’s most exciting boomtowns. He also examines the family’s position of affluence and the effect that the devastation of the Civil War had on their family life and their standing within the community. He describes the interaction of Owen with her two younger sisters, both of whom had interesting and, for women of the time, unconventional careers. Olson analyzes many of the nineteenth-century theories, stereotypes, and popular beliefs that influenced the work of Owen and many of her peers. By taking a cross-disciplinary look at her works of fiction, poetry, folklore, history, and anthropology, this volume sheds new light on elements of Owen’s career that have not previously been discussed in print. Examples of the romance stories that Owen wrote for popular magazines in the 1880’s are identified and examined in the context of the time in which Owen wrote them. This groundbreaking biography shows that Owen was more than just a folklorist—she was a nineteenth-century woman of many contradictions. She was an independent woman of many interests who possessed a keen intellect and a genuine interest in people and their stories. Specialists in folklore, anthropology, women’s studies, local and regional history, and Missouriana will find much to like in this thoroughly researched study.

Clothing Matters

Author : Emma Tarlo
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226789767
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (897 download)

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Download or read book Clothing Matters written by Emma Tarlo and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1996-09 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do I wear today? The way we answer this question says much about how we manage and express our identities. This detailed study examines sartorial style in India from the late nineteenth century to the present, showing how trends in clothing are related to caste, level of education, urbanization, and a larger cultural debate about the nature of Indian identity. Clothes have been used to assert power, challenge authority, and instigate social change throughout Indian society. During the struggle for independence, members of the Indian elite incorporated elements of Western style into their clothes, while Gandhi's adoption of the loincloth symbolized the rejection of European power and the contrast between Indian poverty and British wealth. Similar tensions are played out today, with urban Indians adopting "ethnic" dress as villagers seek modern fashions. Illustrated with photographs, satirical drawings, and magazine advertisements, this book shows how individuals and groups play with history and culture as they decide what to wear.

Legal Realisms

Author : Christine Holbo
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019093591X
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Legal Realisms written by Christine Holbo and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: United States historians have long regarded the U.S. Civil War and its Reconstruction as a second American revolution. Literary scholars, however, have yet to show how fully these years revolutionized the American imagination. Emblematic of this moment was the post-war search for a "Great American Novel"--a novel fully adequate to the breadth and diversity of the United States in the era of the Fourteenth Amendment. While the passage of the Reconstruction Amendments declared the ideal of equality before the law a reality, persistent and increasing inequality challenged idealists and realists alike. The controversy over what full representation should mean sparked debates about the value of cultural difference and aesthetic dissonance, and it led to a thoroughgoing reconstruction of the meaning of "realism" for readers, writers, politics, and law. The dilemmas of incomplete emancipation, which would damage and define American life from the late nineteenth century onwards, would also force novelists to reconsider the definition and possibilities of the novel as a genre of social representation. Legal Realisms examines these transformations in the face of uneven developments in the racial, ethnic, gender and class structure of American society. Offering provocative new readings of Mark Twain, Henry James, William Dean Howells, Helen Hunt Jackson, Albion Tourgée and others, Christine Holbo explores the transformation of the novel's distinctive modes of social knowledge in relation to developments in art, philosophy, law, politics, and moral theory. As Legal Realisms follows the novel through the worlds of California Native American removal and the Reconstruction-era South, of the Mississippi valley and the urban Northeast, this study shows how violence, prejudice, and exclusion haunted the celebratory literatures of national equality, but it demonstrates as well the way novelists' representation of the difficulty of achieving equality before the law helped Americans articulate the need for a more robust concept of social justice.

Migration and Modernities

Author : DeLucia JoEllen DeLucia
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474440371
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Migration and Modernities written by DeLucia JoEllen DeLucia and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-27 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recovers a comparative literary history of migrationThis collection initiates transnational, transcultural and interdisciplinary conversations about migration in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Migrants are by definition liminal, and many have existed historically in the murky spaces between nations, regions or ethnicities. These essays together traverse the globe, revealing the experiences - real or imagined - of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century migrants, from dispossessed Native Americans to soldiers in South America, Turkish refugees to Scottish settlers. They explore the aesthetic and rhetorical frameworks used to represent migrant experiences during a time when imperial expansion and technological developments made the fortunes of some migrants and made exiles out of others. These frameworks continue to influence the narratives we tell ourselves about migration today and were crucial in producing a distinctively modern subjectivity in which mobility and rootlessness have become normative.Key FeaturesOffers a comparative framework for understanding the modern history of migration and the aesthetics of mobilityForegrounds interdisciplinary debates about belonging, rights, and citizenshipDemonstrates how mobility unsettles the national, cultural, racialized, and gendered frames we often use to organize literary and historical studyBrings together scholars from the US and Europe to explore the connections between migrant experiences and the emergence of modernityEmphasizes the globalism of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries

Medicine Bundle

Author : Joshua David Bellin
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812292340
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Medicine Bundle written by Joshua David Bellin and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the 1820s to the 1930s, Christian missionaries and federal agents launched a continent-wide assault against Indian sacred dance, song, ceremony, and healing ritual in an attempt to transform Indian peoples into American citizens. In spite of this century-long religious persecution, Native peoples continued to perform their sacred traditions and resist the foreign religions imposed on them, as well as to develop new practices that partook of both. At the same time, some whites began to explore Indian performance with interest, and even to promote Indian sacred traditions as a source of power for their own society. The varieties of Indian performance played a formative role in American culture and identity during a critical phase in the nation's development. In Medicine Bundle, Joshua David Bellin examines the complex issues surrounding Indian sacred performance in its manifold and intimate relationships with texts and images by both Indians and whites. From the paintings of George Catlin, the traveling showman who exploited Indian ceremonies for the entertainment of white audiences, to the autobiography of Black Elk, the Lakota holy man whose long life included stints as a dancer in Buffalo Bill's Wild West show, a supplicant in the Ghost Dance movement, and a catechist in the Catholic Church, Bellin reframes American literature, culture, and identity as products of encounter with diverse performance traditions. Like the traditional medicine bundle of sacred objects bound together for ritual purposes, Indian performance and the performance of Indianness by whites and Indians alike are joined in a powerful intercultural knot.

The Indian Chief as Tragic Hero

Author : Gordon M. Sayre
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807877018
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Indian Chief as Tragic Hero written by Gordon M. Sayre and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2006-05-18 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The leaders of anticolonial wars of resistance--Metacom, Pontiac, Tecumseh, and Cuauhtemoc--spread fear across the frontiers of North America. Yet once defeated, these men became iconic martyrs for postcolonial national identity in Canada, the United States, and Mexico. By the early 1800s a craze arose for Indian tragedy on the U.S. stage, such as John Augustus Stone's Metamora, and for Indian biographies as national historiography, such as the writings of Benjamin Drake, Francis Parkman, and William Apess. With chapters on seven major resistance struggles, including the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 and the Natchez Massacre of 1729, The Indian Chief as Tragic Hero offers an analysis of not only the tragedies and epics written about these leaders, but also their own speeches and strategies, as recorded in archival sources and narratives by adversaries including Hernan Cortes, Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz, Joseph Doddridge, Robert Rogers, and William Henry Harrison. Sayre concludes that these tragedies and epics about Native resistance laid the foundation for revolutionary culture and historiography in the three modern nations of North America, and that, at odds with the trope of the complaisant "vanishing Indian," these leaders presented colonizers with a cathartic reproof of past injustices.

Mark Twain

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438115385
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Mark Twain written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a biography of Mark Twain along with critical views of his works.

Captivity Literature and the Environment

Author : Kyhl Lyndgaard
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317087402
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Captivity Literature and the Environment written by Kyhl Lyndgaard and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-08-12 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his study of captivity narratives, Kyhl Lyndgaard argues that these accounts have influenced land-use policy and environmental attitudes at the same time that they reveal the complex relationship between ethnicity, landscape, and authorship. In connecting these themes, Lyndgaard offers readers an alternative environmental literature, one that is dependent on an understanding of nature as home rather than as a place of temporary retreat. He examines three captivity narratives written in the 1820s and 1830s - A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison, The Captivity and Adventures of John Tanner, and Life of Black Hawk -all of which engage with the Jacksonian policy of Indian removal and resist tropes of the so-called Vanishing Indian. As Lyndgaard shows, the authors and the editors with whom they collaborated often saw their stories as a plea for environmental and social justice. At the same time, audiences have embraced them for their vision of a more inclusive and less exploitative American society than was proffered by the rhetoric of Manifest Destiny. Their legacy is that while environmental and social justice has been slow in fulfilment, their continued popularity testifies to the fact that the struggle for justice has never been ceded.

Writing Indian Nations

Author : Maureen Konkle
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807854921
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (549 download)

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Download or read book Writing Indian Nations written by Maureen Konkle and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early years of the republic, the United States government negotiated with Indian nations because it could not afford protracted wars politically, militarily, or economically. Maureen Konkle argues that by depending on treaties, which rest on the eq

The Dilemmas of Political Development

Author : Monte Palmer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Dilemmas of Political Development written by Monte Palmer and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monograph on the social role of political systems in the process of modernization and social change in developing countries, with particular reference to the political problems of economic development - examines the behavioural aspects and role of charismatic leadership, interest groups, political party, the armed forces and bureaucracy in context with traditional social structures and institutional frameworks. References.