Dartmouth College Press: 74 books
Insourced
How Importing Jobs Impacts the Healthcare Crisis Here and Abroad
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
For years, opponents of outsourcing have argued that offshoring American jobs destroys our local industries, lays waste to American job creation, and gives foreigners the good jobs and income that would otherwise remain on our shores. Yet few Americans realize that a parallel dynamic is occurring...
by Heather Warren-Crow
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
You are girlish, our images tell us. You are plastic. Girlhood and the Plastic Image explains how, revealing the increasing girlishness of contemporary media. The figure of the girl has long been prized for its mutability, for the assumed instability and flexibility of the not-yet-woman. The plasticity...
Cancer Screening in the Developing World
Case Studies and Strategies from the Field
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Worldwide, cancer is responsible for one in eight deaths—more than AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria combined. This global burden starkly illustrates the inequality between the developed and the developing world. While the majority of people living in developed countries receive timely treatment,...
The Old American
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
In 1746, Nathan Blake, the first frame house builder in Keene, New Hampshire, was abducted by Algonkians and held in Canada as a slave. Inspired by this dramatic slice of history, novelist Ernest Hebert has written a masterful new novel recreating those years of captivity. Set in New England and Canada...
Ghosts of the African Diaspora
Re-Visioning History, Memory, and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
The first monograph to investigate the poetics and politics of haunting in African diaspora literature, Ghosts of the African Diaspora: Re-Visioning History, Memory, and Identity examines literary works by five contemporary writers—Fred D’Aguiar, Gloria Naylor, Paule Marshall, Michelle Cliff,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Over the past decade, historical studies of photography have embraced a variety of cultural and disciplinary approaches to the medium, while shedding light on non-Western, vernacular, and “other” photographic practices outside the Euro-American canon. Photography, History, Difference brings together...
Time and the Digital
Connecting Technology, Aesthetics, and a Process Philosophy of Time
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2012
Eschewing the traditional focus on object/viewer spatial relationships, Timothy Scott Barker’s Time and the Digital stresses the role of the temporal in digital art and media. The connectivity of contemporary digital interfaces has not only expanded the relationships between once separate spaces...
On Suffering
Pathways to Healing and Health
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
Currently in medicine, theories of pain regard pain and suffering as one and the same. It is assumed that if pain ceases, suffering stops. These theories are not substantiated in clinical practice, where some patients report little pain and extreme suffering and other individuals have a lot of pain...
Building Partnerships in the Americas
A Guide for Global Health Workers
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
Students and health practitioners traveling abroad seek insightful, culturally relevant background material to orient them to the environment in which they will be living and working. No single book currently provides this contextual background and global health perspective. These essays emphasize...
Ecological Aesthetics
artful tactics for humans, nature, and politics
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
With this poetic and scholarly collection of stories about art, artists, and their materials, Nathaniel Stern argues that ecology, aesthetics, and ethics are inherently entwined, and together act as the cornerstone for all contemporary arts practices. An ecological approach, says Stern, takes account...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2019
Please Does it make sense to speak of an “American” literature in neoliberal times? Can literature function as either a neutral category or a privileged narrative of national imagination in a time when paradigms of the nation-state and of liberal capitalism are undergoing a prolonged shift? In...
by Günter H. Lenz
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
Starting in 2005, Günter H. Lenz began preparing a book-length exploration of the transformation of the field of American Studies in the crucial years between 1970 and 1990. As a commentator on, contributor to, and participant in the intellectual and institutional changes in his field, Lenz was well...
Faculty of Color in the Health Professions
Stories of Survival and Success
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
This book provides the first in-depth examination of the experiences of a large sampling of faculty members of color in nursing, medicine, pharmacy, and dentistry schools across the United States. Anchoring her study in grounded theory, Dena Hassouneh draws on extraordinary interviews with one hundred...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2019
Afterlives of Indigenous Archives offers a compelling critique of Western archives and their use in the development of “digital humanities.” The essays collected here present the work of an international and interdisciplinary group of indigenous scholars; researchers in the field of indigenous...