Posted by
Ellen on
28 July 2010, 2:38 pm
We welcome a guest post today from Jennifer Brier, author of Infectious Ideas: U.S. Political Responses to the AIDS Crisis. When the Obama administration announced a new HIV/AIDS strategy, we asked Brier to unpack the news and help give historical perspective to the new plan.–ellen Reading President Obama’s new HIV/AIDS strategy, released on July 13, [...] Read more »
Filed under Current Events, Gay / Lesbian Studies, Guest Bloggers, Health / Medicine, Politics, Public Policy.
Tagged aids policy, barack obama, hiv/aids, homophobia, jennifer brier, pepfar, usaid
Posted by
Alyssa on
12 July 2010, 1:53 pm
Doctors Nortin M. Hadler and Mark E. Williams recently authored a piece about the changing dynamics of healthcare after retirement, a system dating to the 1960s. They say the modern notion of Americans spend the last years of life has become incredibly sterilized since the influx of for-profit nursing homes. With increasing lifespans and complexity [...] Read more »
Posted by
Alyssa on
17 June 2010, 11:00 am
This weekend is Father’s Day (hope you didn’t forget!) and in honor of pops and grandpas everywhere, we have an interview with Judith Walzer Leavitt, author of Make Room for Daddy. Drawing from letters, journals and interviews with fathers, Leavitt investigates how the role of the father changed from the 1940s to the 1980s. Once [...] Read more »
Filed under Gender Studies, Health / Medicine, Interviews, TSoT, UNC Press Authors, Women's Studies.
Tagged childbirth, father's day, fathers, gender history, gender norms, Judith Leavitt, make room for daddy, maternity, mothers
Posted by
Ellen on
30 March 2010, 8:40 am
Today we welcome a guest post from William W. McLendon, M.D., coauthor, with Floyd W. Denny Jr. and William B. Blythe, of Bettering the Health of the People: W. Reece Berryhill, the UNC School of Medicine, and the North Carolina Good Health Movement. The book explores the history of North Carolina’s postwar effort to provide [...] Read more »
Filed under American History, Current Events, Guest Bloggers, Health / Medicine, North Carolina, Public Policy.
Tagged Bettering the Health of the People, Floyd Denny, health care policy, North Carolina, William Blythe, William McLendon
Posted by
Ellen on
26 March 2010, 8:06 am
The cover story for this week’s Independent Weekly (on newsstands in the Triangle from 3/24/10 to 3/30/10), discusses the victims of North Carolina’s 20th-century eugenics program and the current campaign for reparations to people (mostly poor black women) who were forcibly sterilized. As of March 1, 2010, the state has established an organization to finally [...] Read more »
Filed under African American History, American History, Civil Rights, Guest Bloggers, Health / Medicine, History, North Carolina, Public Policy, Women's Studies.
Tagged abortion, birth control, coercion, eugenics, family planning, johanna schoen, nc justice for victims of sterilization foundation, public health, reparations, reproductive rights, sex education, sterilization, welfare
Posted by
Ellen on
22 February 2010, 5:06 pm
This is the question Susan Reverby considers in a post over at Wonders & Marvels. The author of, most recently, Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and Its Legacy writes: In my most recent book, I had to explain: why did the doctors do it? Sometimes it is easy to answer this: all the men [...] Read more »
Posted by
Ellen on
15 January 2010, 4:20 pm
When it comes to medical advice, Dr. Nortin M. Hadler is an authority–his books Stabbed in the Back: Confronting Back Pain in an Overtreated Society and Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America are go-to guides for those interested in the way medical care works, as well as how it needs to [...] Read more »
Filed under Health / Medicine, Public Policy, UNC Press Authors, UNC Press News.
Tagged ABC News, Back Chronicles, back pain, Chris Barker, health, M.D., NC Policy Watch, Nortin M. Hadler, Stabbed in the Back, The Progressive Pulse, Worried Sick
Posted by
Rose on
26 October 2009, 10:34 am
Whether you or someone you know is battling breast cancer, or you are just going about your daily routine, breast cancer awareness is hard to miss. October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and it is nice to see support coming from everywhere–sidewalk signs to window displays to NFL football helmets–PINK is definitely the IT color [...] Read more »
Posted by
Rose on
8 September 2009, 3:48 pm
This Labor Day, I spent some time thinking not only about the dismal state of the unemployed, the underemployed (whether by furlough, reduced hours, part-time work that has replaced full-time, or a job below the worker’s experience and capabilities) and the discouraged worker (who has given up even looking for work), to contemplate another kind [...] Read more »
Posted by
Tom on
26 August 2009, 9:08 am
As I have written here before, I’m a Yankee Vegetarian who came to the South too late to discover the taste of North Carolina Barbecue (in any of its varieties). However, as a self-proclaimed Foodie and something of a geek, if there’s one thing that brings out my inner Alton Brown it’s some good old [...] Read more »
Filed under Cooking / Food, Health / Medicine, North Carolina, Southern Studies, UNC Press News.
Tagged American Chemical Society, barbecue, cancer, holy smoke, National Cancer Institute, north carolina barbecue, ScienceNews
Posted by
Rose on
24 August 2009, 1:35 pm
Below is an excerpt of an op-ed piece that Lisa Levenstein wrote in the Philadelphia Inquirer about government involvement in health care and the Philadelphia General Hospital. She uses “Old Blockley,” as it was often called, as an example of a a successful public hospital that treated everyone with compassion. Levenstein is an assistant professor [...] Read more »
Filed under Current Events, Health / Medicine, UNC Press Authors, UNC Press News.
Tagged A Movement Without Marches, government involvement and health care, health care, lisa levenstein, Philadelphia, Philadelphia General Hospital, philadelphia inquirer, public hospitals, State of Things, UNC Greensboro, World War II
Posted by
Rose on
20 August 2009, 2:09 pm
Below is commentary by Lois Shepherd, J.D., in which she discusses the idea of doctor- patient conversations about death and the current status of such counseling in the universal health care debate. Shepherd is the author of If That Ever Happens to Me: Making Life and Death Decisions After Terri Schiavo. She holds a joint [...] Read more »
Filed under Current Events, Health / Medicine, Politics, UNC Press Authors.
Tagged "death panels", end-of-life, health care debate, health care reform, If That Ever Happens To Me, lois shepherd, Sarah Palin, terri schiavo, United States Congress, universal health care
Posted by
admin on
24 June 2009, 11:05 am
Some exciting news regarding UNC Press… AAUP meeting: Several folks from UNC Press traveled to Philadelphia, PA last weekend for the annual AAUP meeting–Joanna Ruth Marsland, our Director of Development had this to say about the meeting: “…The sessions focused on “best practices” for the various departments and activities within university presses, and the ones [...] Read more »
Filed under Health / Medicine, UNC Press Authors, UNC Press News.
Tagged AAUP, abcnews.comm, barack obama, digital technologies, Google, health care, health care reform, nortin hadler, UNC Press, university presses, white house
Posted by
admin on
16 June 2009, 10:01 am
Today’s guest post is from Judith Walzer Leavitt, author of the recently released Make Room for Daddy: The Journey from Waiting Room to Birthing Room. In her book, Leavitt follows the history of how expectant fathers, over the course of the twentieth century, gradually shifted from twiddling their thumbs in the waiting room to coaching [...]
Filed under American History, American Studies, Gender Studies, Guest Bloggers, Health / Medicine.
Tagged baby delivery, birthing room, childbirth, delivery room, donald sutherland, father's day, fatherhood, fernand lamaze, grantly dick-read, judith walzer leavitt, labor room, lamaze technique, make room for daddy, new fathers, waiting room
