The past remains essential - and inescapable. A quarter-century after the publication of his classic account of man's attitudes to his past, David Lowenthal revisits how we celebrate, expunge, contest and domesticate the past to serve present needs. He shows how nostalgia and heritage now pervade every facet of public and popular culture. History embraces nature and the cosmos as well as humanity. The past is seen and touched and tasted and smelt as well as heard and read about. Empathy, re-enactment, memory and commemoration overwhelm traditional history. A unified past once certified by experts and reliant on written texts has become a fragmented, contested history forged by us all. New insights into history and memory, bias and objectivity, artefacts and monuments, identity and authenticity, and remorse and contrition, make this book once again the essential guide to the past that we
Gennem dokumentationer og analyser af den politiske iscenesættelse ved jubilæer, af ritualerne i mindehøjtideligheder og fremstillingen af besættelsestiden i videnskab, faglitteratur mm. viser forfatterne, hvordan besættelsen blev konstrueret som fortælling og brugt i samfundets omgang med den nationale fortid Titel: Besættelsestiden som kollektiv erindring : historie- og traditionsforvaltning af krig og besættelse 1945-1997 Forfattere: Claus Bryld,Anette Warring Genre: Historisk Sammendrag: I Besættelsestiden som kollektiv erindring analyserer Claus Bryld og Anette Warring dannelsen af den kollektive erindring om besættelsestiden. Fra besættelsens slutning blev skabt en grundfortælling om de fem onde år, som byggede på et politisk kompromis mellem modstandsbevægelsen og 'de gamle politikere'. I løbet af nogle år gik den i glemmebogen, en denne fortælling var resultatet af politisk-histo
Forfattere: Leslie J. Reagan, Nancy Tomes, Paula A. Treichler Sprog: Engelsk Antal sider: 360 Forlag: University Rochester Press Udgivelsesår: 2007 Original essays by leading media scholars and historians of medicine that explore the rich history of health-related films. This groundbreaking book argues that health and medical media, with their unique goals and production values, constitute a rich cultural and historical archive and deserve greater scholarly attention. Original essays by leading media scholars and historians of medicine demonstrate that Americans throughout the twentieth century have learned about health, disease, medicine, and the human body from movies. Heroic doctors and patients fighting dread diseaseshave thrilled and moved audiences everywhere; amid changing media formats, medicine's moving pictures continue to educate, entertain, and help us understand the body's j
Hukommelsesanalyse bygger grundlæggende på, at de erindringer, som findes lagret i vores hukommelse, vil kunne være særdeles udbytterige for forståelsen af et problemfelt. F.eks. vil man ved anvendelse af hukommelsesanalyse kunne opnå et indblik i, hvorledes vi fortolker og forstår fænomener i omverdenen, hvordan motiver, adfærd og beslutninger påvirker dannelsen af vores meninger, og hvordan vi tilegner os ny viden. Til brug findes i hukommelsesanalysen indarbejdet en række teknikker, som både forskere, studerende og praktikere vil kunne have stort udbytte af at anvende. I denne bog præsenteres hukommelsesanalyse som en alternativ kvalitativ metode. Bogen indledes med en udførlig gennemgang af hukommelsesanalysens paradigme- og teorigrundlag, og der diskuteres forskellige fremgangsmåder for den praktiske anvendelse af metoden. Dernæst sammenlignes hukommelsesanalysen med andre kvalitati
Essential reading for social and medical scientists and all those interested in infectious diseases and public health, AIDS and the Twenty-First Century examines the social and economic origins and impacts of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. HIV/AIDS is not only a medical problem. It is an indication of the scale of the global crisis in public health. Accessibly written, this book is necessary reading for policymakers, students and all those who are concerned about the relationship between poverty, inequality and infectious diseases. Titel: AIDS in the twenty-first century : disease and globalization Forfattere: Tony Barnett,Alan Whiteside Udgave: 1. udgave Genre: natur_videnskab_teknologi Sammendrag: Bogen undersøger HIV/AIDS som globalt fænomen med fokus på sammenhængen mellem sygdom, fattigdom, ulighed og globalisering. Den kombinerer samfundsvidenskabelig analyse med folkesundhed og epidemiolo
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER. The definitive insider's account of American policy making in Vietnam. "Can anyone remember a public official with the courage to confess error and explain where he and his country went wrong? This is what Robert McNamara does in this brave, honest, honorable, and altogether compelling book."—Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. Written twenty years after the end of the Vietnam War, former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's controversial memoir answers the lingering questions that surround this disastrous episode in American history. With unprecedented candor and drawing on a wealth of newly declassified documents, McNamara reveals the fatal misassumptions behind our involvement in Vietnam. Keenly observed and dramatically written, In Retrospect possesses the urgency and poignancy that mark the very best histories—and the unsparing candor that is the trademark of the great
Summary: "Winner of the 1983 Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize in American History, this is a landmark history of how the entire American health care system of doctors, hospitals, health plans, and government programs has evolved over the last two centuries." Titel: The social transformation of American medicine : the rise of a sovereign profession & the making a a vast industry Udgave: Med en ny epilog af forfatteren Genre: Sociologi/Medicin/Historie Sammendrag: Bogen betragtes som den definitive historie om det amerikanske sundhedsvæsen og undersøger, hvordan rollerne for læger, hospitaler, sundhedsplaner og regeringsprogrammer har udviklet sig over de sidste to og et halvt århundreder. Den sporer tilbagegangen af professionel suverænitet inden for medicin, de politiske kampe over sundhedspleje og fremkomsten af et virksomheds-system. Type: Paperback
First Published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Titel: Decolonizing Cultures in the Pacific : Reading History and Trauma in Contemporary Fiction Genre: Academic Sammendrag: In Decolonizing Cultures in the Pacific, Susan Y. Najita examines how indigenous peoples of Oceania are reclaiming their cultures, languages, and political independence through contemporary writing, particularly focusing on the violent history of contact and colonization in islands like Hawai'i, Samoa, and Aotearoa/New Zealand. Type: Paperback
