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The Doctor Is In is an occasional series where JHU Press authors discuss the latest developments and news in health and medicine. guest post by Susan J. Noonan, M.D., M.P.H. At this time of the year, many of us are surrounded by people and environments that...

Guest post by Janine Barchas Today puts another candle on the birthday cake of novelist Jane Austen, born 16 December 1775. Conveniently, Austen’s birthday coincides with the December gift-giving season. If you are thinking about making a holiday present of a...

By Brian Shea Journals PR and Advertising Coordinator NBC’s recent broadcast of a live version of “The Sound of Music” has musical theatre on the minds of many. Rumor has it that the network will make a live holiday musical a part of their strategy going...

guest post by Kay Harris Kriegsman, Ph.D. and Sara Palmer, Ph.D. “I look at her waking up of a morning. I sit right outside her bedroom door so she’ll see me there and feel safe knowing her granddad is there. We’ll build tents and take our flashlight inside...

guest post by John Bodnar Americans will soon be reminded again of the significance of December 7, 1941. For the past seventy-two years, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor has been recalled not only as the event that pushed America into World War II, but as a...

Wild Thing is an occasional series where JHU Press authors write about the flora and fauna of the natural world—from the rarest flower to the most magnificent beast. guest post by Russell F. Reidinger, Jr. Raccoons work hard to get into attics, sometimes...

JHU Press authors will be contributing mightily to the holiday spirit in December with a grueling (but jolly!) schedule of book signings and special programs. Especially in the Baltimore area, where JHUP’s regional books have long been popular holiday gifts...

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guest post by Marian Moser Jones Last week, a man identifying himself as George Jones from Chicago left a cryptic voicemail on my office phone: “I have some information for you about Clara Barton. Please call.” In the months since the publication of my book...

guest post by Margaret Humphreys In a recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine, Jennifer Leaning and Debarati Guha-Sapir explore the public health implications of natural disasters. At first the fact that wars and disasters kill people may provoke...