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On the Other Hand
Genes and kangaroos -- Criminals or victims? Cesare Lombroso vs. Robert Hertz -- By the numbers : measuring handedness -- Ambiguous attitudes -- Changing hands, tying tongues -- From genes to populations : the search for a cause -- The geschwind hypothesis -- Genetic models and selective advantage -- Uniquely human? -- A gay hand? -- Disability, ability, and the left hand -- Conclusion : does left-handedness matter?
Conflict on the Northwest Coast
A new interpretation of the purchase of Alaska.
American Suicide
For the nineteenth-century physician, the moral issues that suicide raised could not be isolated from its constitutional components. Thus, those who exhibited suicidal tendencies were subjected to an amalgamation of pharmacological, social, and psychological interventions, which practioners labeled the "moral treatment." By the 1890s, however, the consensus about the causes of suicide became unglued as a bacteriological medicine and the rise of the social sciences jointly served to call into question eclectic diagnoses. The goal of American Suicide is to demonstrate how the apparent contradictions among sociological, psychoanalytic, and neurobiological explanations of the etiology of suicide may be resolved. Only througha reintegration of culture, psychology, and biology can we begin to construct a satisfactory answer to the questions first raised by Durkheim, Freud, and Kraepelin.
A Cursing Brain?
Over a century and a half ago, a French physician reported the bizarre behavior of a young aristocratic woman who would suddenly, without warning, erupt in a startling fit of obscene shouts and curses. The image of the afflicted Marquise de Dampierre echoes through the decades as the emblematic example of an illness that today represents one of the fastest-growing diagnoses in North America. Tourette syndrome is a set of behaviors, including recurrent ticcing and involuntary shouting (sometimes cursing) as well as obsessive-compulsive actions. The fascinating history of this syndrome reveals how cultural and medical assumptions have determined and radically altered its characterization and t...
Self-destruction in the Promised Land
"A work of subtle insights and of bold illumination, written with persuasive eloquence; it should become a classic in its field."--William Styron "Will rush to the top of the list of important books on psychohistory . . . balanced and provocative . . . it's a blockbuster."--Carl N. Degler, Stanford University "An illuminating overview of the prevailing understanding of suicide over the past 300 years, tracing current theories back, in some cases, to their roots in Puritan New England. [Kushner] shows how the conflicting views of psychology, sociology, and biochemistry emerged and hardened into dogmatic theories within each discipline that impeded cross-pollination. . . . Fascinating stuff."--San Diego Tribune "Outstanding . . . the only work I know that is adequate to the complexity and multidimensionality of suicide, and which genuinely combines, indeed synthesizes, a wide range of disciplinary perspectives into a coherent and satisfying view of the issues. . . . a tour de force."--Joel Kovel, M. D.
When Bad Things Happen to Good People
There is only one question which really matters: why do bad things happen to good people?' Out of a faith-shaking and senseless waste of a life comes this remarkable and caring book, which will help many. It has sensible and unorthodox and mind-opening things to say about God - and about ourselves. Its author has wisdom and no bitterness. We can learn from him, about acceptance and guilt and despair and the helplessness we all feel when 'none of it makes sense' when we say 'why them?' or worse 'why us?'. We owe him our thanks' David Kossoff 'Rabbi Kushner writes from a wealth of Jewish wisdom and pastoral devotion, but his theology is, I find, is wholly in keeping with contemporary Christian thought. So far as there is an answer to the conflict between the goodness of God and the bitterness of suffering, this is it' Gerald Priestland 'It will bring new meaning, strength and hope to many' Dame Cicely Saunders, DBE, FRCP
Living a Life that Matters
In this inspiring, uplifting and timely book, Harold Kushner addresses our craving for significance, the need to know that our lives and choices mean something. We sometimes confuse power, wealth and fame with true achievement. We can do great things, and occasionally terrible things, to reassure ourselves that we matter to the world. We need to think of ourselves as good people and are troubled when we compromise our integrity to be successful and important. In Living a Life That Matters, Rabbi Kushner suggests that the path to a truly successful and significant life lies in friendship, family, acts of generosity and self-sacrifice, as well as in God's forgiving nature. He describes how, in changing the life of even one person in a positive way, we make a difference in the world, give our lives meaning, and prove that we do, in fact, matter.
A Cursing Brain? The Histories of Tourette Syndrome
A Cursing Brain? traces the problematic classification of Tourette syndrome through three distinct but overlapping stories: the claims of medical knowledge, patients' experiences, and cultural expectations and assumptions.
The Neurological Patient in History
Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, Tourette's, multiple sclerosis, stroke: all are neurological illnesses that create dysfunction, distress, and disability. With their symptoms ranging from impaired movement and paralysis to hallucinations and dementia, neurological patients present myriad puzzling disorders and medical challenges. Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries countless stories about neurological patients appeared in newspapers, books, medical papers, and films. Often the patients were romanticized; indeed, it was common for physicians to cast neurological patients in a grand performance, allegedly giving audiences access to deep philosophical insights about the meaning of life a...
Wolf Lamb Bomb
Aviya Kushner (The Grammar of God) places the prophet Isaiah in the position of poet, crooner, and rival in her debut poetry collection, seeking a guide in poetry and in life.
