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An examination of the efficacy and safety of psychiatric medications in light of how little is understood about how they work

It is estimated that forty-five to fifty percent of all Ame…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017173/Patient-Tales
A look into communicating psychiatric patient histories, from the asylum years to the clinics of today

In this engrossing study of tales of mental illness, Carol Berkenkotter examines t…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017193/Moving-Bodies
A sophisticated study of how bodies and language move and are moved by each other

Kenneth Burke may be best known for his theories of dramatism and of language as symbolic action, but f…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017232/Southern-Folk-Medicine-1750-1820
Explores homespun remedies and medicinal herbs

Southern Folk Medicine, 1750-1820 explores methods of cure during a time when the South relied more heavily on homespun remedies than on p…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017367/Breast-or-Bottle
Breast or Bottle? is the first scholarly examination of the shift in breastfeeding recommendations occurring over the last half century. Through a close analysis of scientific and medical cont…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017421/AIDS-in-the-End-Zone
Marcus Johnson has just been named star quarterback for the Marina High School Pirates. Former quarterback Brad Timmerman will do anything to depose this new rival and regain his position and…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017426/Asylum-Doctor
During the early twentieth century thousands of Americans died of pellagra before the cause—vitamin B3 deficiency—was identified. Credit for ending the scourge is usually given to Dr. Joseph G…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017804/Enduring-Shame
A study of the rhetorical power of shame and its effect on reproductive politics

Not long ago, unmarried pregnant women in the United States hid in maternity homes and relinquished thei…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017943/Hemingways-Brain-updated-edition
A forensic psychiatrist's corrective and innovative diagnosis of the conditions that led to Ernest Hemingway's suicide

Hemingway's Brain is the first forensic psychiatric examination of…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017922/Otherwise-Im-Fine
A daughter's story of unresolved grief and a family's hard-won healing

When her husband Bill died in 1969, Tina Presnell gathered her three children. "We won't talk about this," she sa…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700