Hamilton Cravens Aian I. Marcus Donald T. Critchlow
Americans have benefited from substantial improvements in health since the end of World War II. They live longer and grow taller; they have the safest and cheapest food supply on the planet; they have seen virtually all childhood diseases brought under control. Yet concerns about health remain widespread today. Cancer seems to be everywhere; autoimmune, nervous, and environmental diseases have reached pandemic proportions; medical malpractice suits have proliferated.
How can we have received so many benefits while still being as worried as ever about our health and the health care...
Americans have benefited from substantial improvements in health since the end of World War II. They live longer and grow taller; they have the saf...
Between the 1920s and the 1950s, the child welfare movement that had originated as a moral reform effort in the Progressive era evolved into the science of child development. In Before Head Start, Hamilton Cravens chronicles this transformation, both on the national level and from the perspective of the field's best-known research center, the University of Iowa's Child Welfare Research Station. Addressing the changing role played by women and the importance of Rockefeller philanthropy, he shows how a women's reform movement became a male-dominated, conservative profession and...
Between the 1920s and the 1950s, the child welfare movement that had originated as a moral reform effort in the Progressive era evolved into the scien...
What happens when the allegedly value-free social sciences enter the national political arena? In The Social Sciences Go to Washington, scholars examine the effects of the massive influx of sociologists, demographers, economists, educators, and others to the federal advisory process in the postwar period. Essays look at how these social scientists sought to change existing policies in welfare, public health, urban policy, national defense, environmental policy, and science and technology policy, and the ways they tried to influence future policies.Policymakers have been troubled...
What happens when the allegedly value-free social sciences enter the national political arena? In The Social Sciences Go to Washington, scholar...
This text addresses the relationship between what modern-day experts say to each other and to their constituencies and whether what they say and do relates to the larger culture and society. It challenges the social impact model by looking at science and technology as intellectual activities.
This text addresses the relationship between what modern-day experts say to each other and to their constituencies and whether what they say and do re...
Who were the people waiting in the bread lines and living in Hoovervilles? Who were the migrants heading North and West? Did anyone survive the Depression relatively unscathed? Giving a voice to stories often untold, "Great Depression: People and Perspectives" covers the full spectrum of American life, portraying the experiences of ordinary citizens during the worst economic crisis in the nation's history.
"Great Depression" shows how specific groups coped with the traumatic upheaval of the times, including rural Americans, women, children, African Americans, and immigrants. In...
Who were the people waiting in the bread lines and living in Hoovervilles? Who were the migrants heading North and West? Did anyone survive the Dep...
During the course of American history, scientific theories have been used to legitimate racial ideas that in turn have been important in creating and interpreting the law. Race and Science collects essays from leading voices in law, history, history of science, botany, and the social sciences, resulting in a rich and comprehensive multidisciplinary exploration of the roots of and the scientific challenges to racial essentialism. The notion that someone's racial identity and characteristics define everything of importance about them has become deeply embedded in American culture, society,...
During the course of American history, scientific theories have been used to legitimate racial ideas that in turn have been important in creating and ...
From World War II to the early 1970s, social science research expanded in dramatic and unprecedented fashion in the United States. This volume examines how, why, and with what consequences this rapid and yet contested expansion depended on the entanglement of the social sciences with the Cold War.
From World War II to the early 1970s, social science research expanded in dramatic and unprecedented fashion in the United States. This volume examine...
From World War II to the early 1970s, social science research expanded in dramatic and unprecedented fashion in the United States. This volume examines how, why, and with what consequences this rapid and yet contested expansion depended on the entanglement of the social sciences with the Cold War.
From World War II to the early 1970s, social science research expanded in dramatic and unprecedented fashion in the United States. This volume examine...
