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About my libraryIn addition to subject tags, my books have project tags (ugrd class/grad class/prelims/holy cross/antigonish/borderlands/disasters) and location tags (fiction/travel/reference/downstairs). If there's no location tag, they're in LC order in my main shelves. I haphazardly include tags for the author's academic affiliations--both where they are now and, if the book was a dissertation originally, where the author went to grad school.

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There shall be no needy : pursuing social justice through Jewish law and tradition by Jill Jacobs

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Hi, the Four Historic Faces of Salem are: The Witchcraft Hysteria of 1692, the 17th-19th Century Maritime History, Nathaniel Hawthorne's Salem, and Salem's Historic Architecture. Hope this helps!

posted by voyagersinc at 6:00 pm (EST) on Nov 25, 2008

Hi - me again! Thanks again for your Secret Santa picks - I've just posted a review of the Frances Fyfield omnibus, having finally got around to reading the second novel. I was pleasantly surprised - I'll be looking out for more of her stuff.

posted by thorold at 10:38 am (EST) on Feb 27, 2008

Hi - thanks for your SantaThing picks! I hadn't come across Frances Fyfield before, and haven't read any of Billy Collins's work, so I'm looking forward to discovering something new.

posted by thorold at 5:52 am (EST) on Dec 29, 2007

There's someone else out there in LibraryThing land with whom I have 8 of his 21 books in common. Turns out he's only entered the books from his current classes - and he's very clearly currently taking Gary Gerstle's nationalism class.

posted by kafkline at 11:09 pm (EST) on Nov 27, 2007

A great place to start is Sheila Rothman's Living in the Shadow of Death. It's specifically about TB, but she discusses the change over time of health seeking, invalidism, and climactic influence. Gregg Mitman has just recently written on health seeking for asthma and hay fever in Breathing Space - if anything check out his article "Hay Fever Holiday."

Essentially it's rooted in Hippocrates' On Airs, Waters, and Places and you can really see it in the field of "medical geography" (see Mitman and Numbers: "From miasma to asthma: the changing fortunes of medical geography in America" in History and philosophy of the life sciences for more on that).

posted by Brdgt at 2:59 pm (EST) on Oct 1, 2007

I don't mind at all - my dissertation will be on domestic medicine in twentieth century America with a focus on TB (sleeping porches, sickrooms, disinfectants, etc.) Your topic sounds great! One of our faculty is working on the recent Paris Heat wave right now and teaching a seminar on catastrophes and disasters.

posted by Brdgt at 5:40 pm (EST) on Sep 28, 2007

I understand. I'm swamped with comps reading and looking for a dissertation topic. Outside reading is a privilege not a right.

posted by sfertenbaugh at 4:36 pm (EST) on Mar 26, 2007

Yes, I joined LAWCHA last summer. If you are interested in current labor news, checked out "Labor Notes."

posted by sfertenbaugh at 2:15 pm (EST) on Mar 21, 2007

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