Oxford University Press

During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, thousands of American Jews were drawn to the teachings of Christian Science. Viewing such attraction with alarm, American Reform Rabbis sought to counter Christian Science's appeal by formulating a Jewish vision of happiness and health. Unlike Christian Science, it acknowledged the benefits...

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What happened to the chop suey restaurants of New York's Chinatown? Asking that simple question led author and food historian Andrew Coe on a research odyssey that resulted in this first authoritative history of the American experience of Chinese food. In his book, Coe investigates the complex ways we relate to alien cultures through the medium of...

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Sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation, this book provides a unique view of global inequities in health status and health systems. Emphasizing socioeconomic conditions, it combines chapters on conceptual and measurement issues with vivid case studies from countries around the world....

Freedom of religion was one of the bedrock principles of the founding, and one of the keys to the success of the American experiment. In this provocative book, David Sehat argues that this is far from true. In fact, for most of American history, a "e;moral establishment"e; used the law to enforce a Protestant Christian morality that made...