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Saying something : jazz improvisation and interaction
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ISBN: 128207007X 9786612070075 0226534790 Year: 1996 Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press,

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This fresh look at the neglected rhythm section in jazz ensembles shows that the improvisational interplay among drums, bass, and piano is just as innovative, complex, and spontaneous as the solo. Ingrid Monson juxtaposes musicians' talk and musical examples to ask how musicians go about "saying something" through music in a way that articulates identity, politics, and race. Through interviews with Jaki Byard, Richard Davis, Sir Roland Hanna, Billy Higgins, Cecil McBee, and others, she develops a perspective on jazz improvisation that has "interactiveness" at its core, in the creation of music through improvisational interaction, in the shaping of social communities and networks through music, and in the development of cultural meanings and ideologies that inform the interpretation of jazz in twentieth-century American cultural life. Replete with original musical transcriptions, this broad view of jazz improvisation and its emotional and cultural power will have a wide audience among jazz fans, ethnomusicologists, and anthropologists.

Modern and global Ayurveda : pluralism and paradigms
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ISBN: 0791478165 1435663284 9781435663282 9780791478165 0791474895 9780791474907 0791474909 9780791474891 Year: 2008 Publisher: Albany: State university of New York press,

Living with polio
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ISBN: 1281966835 9786611966836 0226901068 9780226901060 9780226901046 9780226901039 0226901033 Year: 2005 Publisher: Chicago University of Chicago Press

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Polio was the most dreaded childhood disease of twentieth-century America. Every summer during the 1940's and 1950's, parents were terrorized by the thought that polio might cripple their children. They warned their children not to drink from public fountains, to avoid swimming pools, and to stay away from movie theaters and other crowded places. Whenever and wherever polio struck, hospitals filled with victims of the virus. Many experienced only temporary paralysis, but others faced a lifetime of disability. Living with Polio is the first book to focus primarily on the personal stories of the men and women who had acute polio and lived with its crippling consequences. Writing from personal experience, polio survivor Daniel J. Wilson shapes this impassioned book with the testimonials of more than one hundred polio victims, focusing on the years between 1930 and 1960. He traces the entire life experience of the survivors-from the alarming diagnosis all the way to the recent development of post-polio syndrome, a condition in which the symptoms of the disease may return two or three decades after they originally surfaced. Living with Polio follows every physical and emotional stage of the disease: the loneliness of long separations from family and friends suffered by hospitalized victims; the rehabilitation facilities where survivors spent a full year or more painfully trying to regain the use of their paralyzed muscles; and then the return home, where they were faced with readjusting to school or work with the aid of braces, crutches, or wheelchairs while their families faced the difficult responsibilities of caring for and supporting a child or spouse with a disability. Poignant and gripping, Living with Polio is a compelling history of the enduring physical and psychological experience of polio straight from the rarely heard voices of its survivors.

Radio's America : the Great Depression and the rise of modern mass culture
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ISBN: 9786612239847 1282239848 0226471934 9780226471938 9780226471914 0226471918 9780226471921 0226471926 0226471918 9780226471914 6612239840 9781282239845 Year: 2007 Publisher: Chicago ; London University of Chicago Press

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Orson Welles's greatest breakthrough into the popular consciousness occurred in 1938, three years before Citizen Kane, when his War of the Worlds radio broadcast succeeded so spectacularly that terrified listeners believed they were hearing a genuine report of an alien invasion-a landmark in the history of radio's powerful relationship with its audience. In Radio's America, Bruce Lenthall documents the enormous impact radio had on the lives of Depression-era Americans and charts the formative years of our modern mass culture. Many Americans became alienated from their government and economy in the twentieth century, and Lenthall explains that radio's appeal came from its capability to personalize an increasingly impersonal public arena. His depictions of such figures as proto-Fascist Charles Coughlin and medical quack John Brinkley offer penetrating insight into radio's use as a persuasive tool, and Lenthall's book is unique in its exploration of how ordinary Americans made radio a part of their lives. Television inherited radio's cultural role, and as the voting tallies for American Idol attest, broadcasting continues to occupy a powerfully intimate place in American life. Radio's America reveals how the connections between power and mass media began.

Enforced marginality
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ISBN: 1282359185 9786612359187 0520933419 1435611357 9780520933415 9781435611351 9780520249684 0520249682 9781282359185 1433709775 9781433709777 Year: 2007 Publisher: Berkeley University of California Press

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This illuminating study explores a central but neglected aspect of modern Jewish history: the problem of abandoned Jewish wives, or agunes ("chained wives")-women who under Jewish law could not obtain a divorce-and of the men who deserted them. Looking at seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Germany and then late nineteenth-century eastern Europe and twentieth-century United States, Enforced Marginality explores representations of abandoned wives while tracing the demographic movements of Jews in the West. Bluma Goldstein analyzes a range of texts (in Old Yiddish, German, Yiddish, and English) at the intersection of disciplines (history, literature, sociology, and gender studies) to describe the dynamics of power between men and women within traditional communities and to elucidate the full spectrum of experiences abandoned women faced.


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The bleeding disease : hemophilia and the unintended consequences of medical progress
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ISBN: 1421404427 9781421404424 9781421401157 1421401150 Year: 2011 Publisher: Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University press,


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Golden holocaust : origin of the cigarette catastrophe and the case for abolition
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ISBN: 9780520270169 0520270169 9786613587343 0520950437 1280492112 9780520950436 Year: 2011 Publisher: Berkeley (Calif.): University of California press,

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The cigarette is the deadliest artifact in the history of human civilization. It is also one of the most beguiling, thanks to more than a century of manipulation at the hands of tobacco industry chemists. In Golden Holocaust, Robert N. Proctor draws on reams of formerly-secret industry documents to explore how the cigarette came to be the most widely-used drug on the planet, with six trillion sticks sold per year. He paints a harrowing picture of tobacco manufacturers conspiring to block the recognition of tobacco-cancer hazards, even as they ensnare legions of scientists and politicians in a web of denial. Proctor tells heretofore untold stories of fraud and subterfuge, and he makes the strongest case to date for a simple yet ambitious remedy : a ban on the manufacture and sale of cigarettes.

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Government regulation --- History, 20th century --- Medical --- Psychology --- Persuasive communication --- Self-help --- Smoking --- Tobacco industry --- Tobacco industry. --- Tobacco use --- History --- History. --- Psychopathology --- Addiction. --- Substance abuse & addictions --- General. --- Psychological aspects. --- Adverse effects --- Economics --- Health aspects. --- United States. --- Tobacco Industry --- Government Regulation --- Persuasive Communication --- Tobacco --- Tobacco manufacture and trade --- Tobacco products industry --- Plant products industry --- Health aspects --- Psychological aspects --- E-books --- History, 20th Century --- history --- adverse effects --- psychology --- economics --- Tabac --- Tabagisme --- Industrie --- Histoire --- Aspect sanitaire --- Mass communications --- Sociology of health --- Social psychology --- United States --- Tobacco industry - United States - History --- Tobacco use - Health aspects --- Smoking - Psychological aspects --- Tobacco Industry - history - United States --- Government Regulation - history - United States --- History, 20th Century - United States --- Persuasive Communication - United States --- Smoking - adverse effects - United States --- Smoking - psychology - United States --- Tobacco Industry - economics - United States --- america and tobacco. --- cigarette addiction. --- cigarettes and death. --- dangers of smoking. --- drug addiction. --- drug research literature. --- drugs and health. --- history of cigarettes. --- history of tobacco. --- how to quit smoking. --- medical ethics. --- medical history. --- medical lit. --- medicine. --- public health history. --- public health. --- smoking and cancer. --- smoking kills. --- smoking recovery. --- tobacco addiction. --- tobacco and cancer. --- tobacco and death. --- tobacco business. --- tobacco industry lies. --- tobacco industry. --- tobacco manufacturers. --- tobacco scandal. --- United States of America


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Pills, power, and policy
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ISBN: 1280116773 9786613521064 0520952421 9780520952423 9781280116773 9780520271135 0520271130 9780520271142 0520271149 Year: 2012 Publisher: Berkeley New York University of California Press Millbank Memorial Fund

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Since the 1950's, the American pharmaceutical industry has been heavily criticized for its profit levels, the high cost of prescription drugs, drug safety problems, and more, yet it has, together with the medical profession, staunchly and successfully opposed regulation. Pills, Power, and Policy offers a lucid history of how the American drug industry and key sectors of the medical profession came to be allies against pharmaceutical reform. It details the political strategies they have used to influence public opinion, shape legislative reform, and define the regulatory environment of prescription drugs. Untangling the complex relationships between drug companies, physicians, and academic researchers, the book provides essential historical context for understanding how corporate interests came to dominate American health care policy after World War II.

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Drug Industry -- history -- United States. --- Drugs -- Research -- United States -- History -- 20th century. --- Economics, Pharmaceutical -- United States. --- History, 20th Century -- United States. --- Pharmaceutical industry - United States - History - 20th century. --- Drugs --- Pharmaceutical industry --- North America --- Economics --- History, Modern 1601 --- -Humanities --- Industry --- Americas --- Health Care Economics and Organizations --- Technology, Industry, and Agriculture --- Geographic Locations --- Technology, Industry, Agriculture --- Health Care --- Geographicals --- United States --- Drug Industry --- Economics, Pharmaceutical --- History, 20th Century --- History --- Aspects, Historical --- Historical Aspects --- Aspect, Historical --- Historical Aspect --- Histories --- 20th Cent. History (Medicine) --- 20th Cent. History of Medicine --- 20th Cent. 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