Author: William Howard ArmstrongPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Organ (Musical instrument)
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Organs for America
Author: William Howard ArmstrongPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Organ (Musical instrument)
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Organs for America
Author: William H. ArmstrongPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512800082
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
Organs for America
Author: William Howard ArmstrongPublisher:
ISBN: 9780812270006
Category : Organ (Musical instrument)
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
The History of the Organ in the United States
Author: Orpha OchsePublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253204950
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Immigration, wars, industrial growth, the availability of electricity, the popularity of orchestral music, and the invention of the phonograph and of the player piano all had a part in determining the course of American organ history.
Manufacturing the Muse
Author: Dennis G. WaringPublisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 9780819565082
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
How a 19th century instrument helped to shape New World culture.
An Organ of Murder
Author: Courtney E. ThompsonPublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 1978813082
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 151
Book Description
Finalist for the 2022 Cheiron Book Prize An Organ of Murder explores the origins of both popular and elite theories of criminality in the nineteenth-century United States, focusing in particular on the influence of phrenology. In the United States, phrenology shaped the production of medico-legal knowledge around crime, the treatment of the criminal within prisons and in public discourse, and sociocultural expectations about the causes of crime. The criminal was phrenology’s ideal research and demonstration subject, and the courtroom and the prison were essential spaces for the staging of scientific expertise. In particular, phrenology constructed ways of looking as well as a language for identifying, understanding, and analyzing criminals and their actions. This work traces the long-lasting influence of phrenological visual culture and language in American culture, law, and medicine, as well as the practical uses of phrenology in courts, prisons, and daily life.
Last Best Gifts
Author: Kieran HealyPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226322386
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
More than any other altruistic gesture, blood and organ donation exemplifies the true spirit of self-sacrifice. Donors literally give of themselves for no reward so that the life of an individual—often anonymous—may be spared. But as the demand for blood and organs has grown, the value of a system that depends solely on gifts has been called into question, and the possibility has surfaced that donors might be supplemented or replaced by paid suppliers. Last Best Gifts offers a fresh perspective on this ethical dilemma by examining the social organization of blood and organ donation in Europe and the United States. Gifts of blood and organs are not given everywhere in the same way or to the same extent—contrasts that allow Kieran Healy to uncover the pivotal role that institutions play in fashioning the contexts for donations. Procurement organizations, he shows, sustain altruism by providing opportunities to give and by producing public accounts of what giving means. In the end, Healy suggests, successful systems rest on the fairness of the exchange, rather than the purity of a donor’s altruism or the size of a financial incentive.
New Organs Within Us
Author: Aslihan SanalPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822349124
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
An ethnographic analysis of organ transplantation in Turkey, based on the stories of kidney-transplant patients and physicians in Istanbul.
Organs in Early America
Author: John T. FespermanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Organ (Musical instrument)
Languages : en
Pages : 5
Book Description
The Organ Shortage Crisis in America
Author: Andrew Michael FlescherPublisher: Georgetown University Press
ISBN: 1626165440
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Nearly 120,000 people are in need of healthy organs in the United States.. Every ten minutes a new name is added to this list, while each day eight people die waiting for an organ to become available. Worse, the gap between those in need of an organ and the number of available donors is growing: our traditional reliance on cadaveric organ donation is insufficient, and in recent years there has been a decline in the number of living donors as well as in the percentage of living donors relative to overall kidney donors. Some transplant surgeons and policy advocates suggest a market solution and legalizing the sale of organs, Andrew Michael Flescher objects to this approach, citing concerns about social justice, commodification, and patient safety. Given that, what is the most efficacious means of attracting prospective living kidney donors? Flescher, drawing on scores of interviews with donors and patients, suggests that inculcating a sense of altruism and civic duty is a more effective means of increasing donor participation than purely financial incentives. He encourages individuals to spend time with patients on dialysis, advocating donor "chains" in order to facilitate relationships between donors and recipients, and creating sacred spaces in hospitals such as a "wall of heroes" to recognize those who sacrifice their body parts for others.