In universities and other truth-seeking institutions, free inquiry is under threat. The practice of free inquiry rests on tolerating dissent and promoting data and logical argument over feelings, status, party…

This volume contains a comprehensive study of the Medicaid programme in the United States.

Explores the interweaving of public and private enterprise in health care in the United States as a basis for thinking about health care in terms of its history and its…

This volume explores the often contradictory industry of American hospitals and shows that throughout the 20th century the voluntary not-for-profit hospitals have been profit-maximizing enterprises, even as they viewed themselves…

Honoring the centennial of Stevens’ birth, this volume presents original essays by many of Stevens’ best-known critics. Also included are 128 previously unpublished lines that appear in the poet’s From…

In three final essays, Robert N. Bellah grapples with the contradictions of modernity, and seven leading thinkers respond with profound new perspectives on our present predicament.

The search for a substitute for religion, Adalaide Kirby Morris argues, occupies Stevens’ poetic energy from his earliest to his latest work. It emerges in his patterns of speech, in…

The Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Collection at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, is considered one of the greatest art collections of the twentieth century. It originated in the 1930s…