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Social Welfare and Public Health

Campbell, Nancy D., “‘A new deal for the drug addict’: The Addiction Research Center, Lexington, Kentucky,” Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 42 (Spring 2006), 135–57.

Béland, Daniel, “Ideas and Institutional Change in Social Security: Conversion, Layering, and Policy Drift,” Social Science Quarterly, 88 (March 2007), 20–38.

Fearon, Peter, “Relief for Wanderers: The Transient Service in Kansas, 1933–35,” Great Plains Quarterly, 26 (Fall 2006), 245–64.

Gräser, Marcus, “Wohlfahrtspolitik in Amerikanischen Städten. Das Beispiel Chicago, 1880–1940” (Welfare politics in American cities. The case of Chicago, 1880–1940), Historische Sozialkunde (Vienna), 35 (2005), 18–25. In German.

Park, Yoosun, and Susan P. Kemp, “‘Little Alien Colonies’: Representations of Immigrants and Their Neighborhoods in Social Work Discourse, 1875–1924,” Social Service Review, 80 (Dec. 2006), 705–34.

Wirth, Thomas, “Urban Neglect: The Environment, Public Health, and Influenza in Philadelphia, 1915–1919,” Pennsylvania History, 73 (Summer 2006), 316–42.

 

Ball, Jennifer Lynne, “The Twilight of the Era of Hush and Pretend: Contraception, Public Mores, and Police Power in Connecticut, 1940–1965” (Purdue University, 2005). Order No. DA3210690.

Kuzmarov, Jeremy, “The Myth of the Addicted Army: Vietnam and the Modern War on Drugs” (Brandeis University, 2006). Order No. DA3208225.

Loyd, Jenna Morvren, “Freedom’s Body: Radical Health Activism in Los Angeles, 1963 to 1978” (University of California, Berkeley, 2005). Order No. DA3211434.

Materese, Michele M., “From Local to National: Lillian D. Wald. A Social Activist, 1893–1913” (State University of New York, Binghamton, 2006). Order No. DA3211261.

Mihailoff, Laura, “Protecting Our Children: A History of the California Youth Authority and Juvenile Justice, 1938–1968” (University of California, Berkeley, 2005). Order No. DA3211450.

Schoeberlein, Robert William, “Mental Illiness in Maryland: Public Perception, Discourse, and Treatment, from the Colonial Period to 1964” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2006). Order No. DA3212604.

 

Addams, Jane, Newer Ideals of Peace. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. lxxviii, 149 pp. Cloth, $35.00, isbn 978-0-252-03105-2. Paper, $15.00, isbn 978-0-252-07345-8.) Originally published in 1906.

Residents of Hull-House, Hull-House Maps and Papers: A Presentation of Nationalities and Wages in a Congested District of Chicago, Together with Comments and Essays on Problems Growing Out of the Social Conditions. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. 178 pp. $50.00, isbn 978-0-252-03134-2.) Originally published in 1895.

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