Vanderbilt University Press imprint: 90 books

The Prohibition Era and Policing

A Legacy of Misregulation

by Wesley M. Oliver
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018

Legal precedents created during Prohibition have lingered, leaving search-and-seizure law much better defined than limits on police use of force, interrogation practices, or eyewitness identification protocols. An unlawful trunk search is thus guarded against more thoroughly than an unnecessary shooting...

Anti-Drug Policies in Colombia

Successes, Failures, and Wrong Turns

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Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017

Forty years after the declaration of the "war on drugs" by President Nixon, the debate on the effectiveness and costs of the ban is red-hot. Several former Latin American presidents and leading intellectuals from around the world have drawn attention to the ineffectiveness and adverse consequences...

Bioethics Mediation

A Guide to Shaping Shared Solutions, Revised and Expanded Edition

by Nancy Neveloff Dubler, Carol B. Liebman
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013

Expanded by two-thirds from the 2004 edition, the new edition features two new role plays, a new chapter on how to write chart notes, and a discussion of new understandings of the role of the clinical ethics consultant. **** Bioethics Mediation offers stories about patients, families, and health care...

Lethal Decisions

The Unnecessary Deaths of Women and Children from HIV/AIDS

by Arthur J. Ammann
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017

This first-person account by one of the pioneers of HIV/AIDS research chronicles the interaction among the pediatric HIV/AIDS community, regulatory bodies, governments, and activists over more than three decades. After the discovery of AIDS in a handful of infants in 1981, the next fifteen years showed...

Varieties of Civic Innovation

Deliberative, Collaborative, Network, and Narrative Approaches

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Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2014

In this collection of original essays, empirical analysts and theorists across disciplines turn a critical eye to a variety of recent institutional forms and styles of innovation. They examine lived reality and theoretical underpinning, promise and accomplishment, but also the pitfalls and capacity-building...

The Abongo Abroad

Military-Sponsored Travel in Ghana, the United States, and the World, 1959-1992

by John V. Clune
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017

Blending African social history with US foreign relations, John V. Clune documents how ordinary people experienced a major aspect of Cold War diplomacy. The book describes how military-sponsored international travel, especially military training abroad and United Nations peacekeeping deployments in...

Conflicted Health Care

Professionalism and Caring in an Urban Hospital

by Ester Carolina Apesoa-Varano, Charles S. Varano
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014

Anyone who has spent time in a hospital as a patient or family member of a patient hopes that those who attend to us or our loved ones are at their professional best and that they care for us in ways that console us and preserve our dignity. This book takes an intimate look at how health care practitioners...

Sex, Shame, and Violence

A Revolutionary Practice of Public Storytelling in Poor Communities

by Kathleen Cash
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016

For more than three decades, Kathleen Cash has lived and worked with impoverished people, learning about their lives. Listening to them talk about their feelings of shame, Cash heard how people suffered from being unable to change what was happening to them--HIV infection, sexual and domestic violence,...

Teaching Peace

Students Exchange Letters with Their Teacher

by Colman McCarthy
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015

To see if nonviolence could be taught, in 1982 Colman McCarthy became a volunteer teacher at one of the poorest high schools in Washington, DC. In the thirty-two years since then, he has taught peace studies courses for more than ten thousand college and high school students. Large numbers of those...

Reckoning Day

Race, Place, and the Atom Bomb in Postwar America

by Jacqueline Foertsch
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013

Too often lost in our understanding of the American Cold War crisis, with its nuclear brinkmanship and global political chess game, is the simultaneous crisis on the nation's racial front. Reckoning Day is the first book to examine the relationship of African Americans to the atom bomb in postwar...

In and Of the Mediterranean

Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Studies

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Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015

The Iberian Peninsula has always been an integral part of the Mediterranean world, from the age of Tartessos and the Phoenicians to our own era and the Union for the Mediterranean. The cutting-edge essays in this volume examine what it means for medieval and early modern Iberia and its people to be considered as part of the Mediterranean.

The Price of Safety

Hidden Costs and Unintended Consequences for Women in the Domestic Violence Service System

by Sara Shoener
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017

Specialized public resources for survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV) are increasingly common and diverse--from protection order courts and dedicated domestic violence units in police precincts to a vast network of community-based emergency shelters and counseling services. Yet little consensus...

Open to Disruption

Time and Craft in the Practice of Slow Sociology

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Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014

At a time when an emphasis on productivity in higher education threatens to undermine well-crafted research, these highly reflexive essays capture the sometimes profound intellectual effects that may accompany disrupted scholarship. They reveal that over long periods of time relationships with people...

Food and Poverty

Food Insecurity and Food Sovereignty among America's Poor

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Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2018

Food insecurity rates, which skyrocketed with the Great Recession, have yet to fall to pre-recession levels. Food pantries are stretched thin, and states are imposing new restrictions on programs like SNAP that are preventing people from getting crucial government assistance. At the same time, we...
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