Ethos Components in Modern Latin American Culture

Latin Language and Latin Culture from ancient to modern times

Corporate Wellness Programs: Implementation Challenges in the Modern American Workplace

Being healthy is important for living well and achieving longevity. In the business realm, furthermore, employers want healthy employees, as these workers tend to be more productive, have fewer rates of absenteeism, and use less of their health insurance resources. This article provides an overview of corporate “wellness” efforts in the American workplace and the concomitant challenges which em...

The dread disease: cancer and modern American culture

JAMES T. PATTERSON, The dread disease: cancer and modern American culture. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1987, 8vo, pp xiii, 380, illus., $25.95 (US), £20.75/$31.25 (Europe). Our recent experiences with AIDS have stimulated historians to analyse more closely the social responses to specific diseases. While the changing patterns of illness are themselves rooted in a complex ecology of...

The Dread Disease: Cancer and Modern American Culture

and researchers who contributed to this collection are predominantly from several areas of high AIDS prevalence: New York, San Francisco, and Miami; they are the shock troops fighting this epidemic, and it is their experiences with AIDS patients that are elegantly presented. While this edition may be a bit costly for the individual, it should be made available in all medical school and departme...

Latin American Presidencies Interrupted

Almost 25 years have passed since Latin America began what has turned out to be the fullest and most enduring experience it has ever had with constitutional democracy. While dictatorships were the norm in the 1960s and 1970s—only Colombia, Costa Rica, and Venezuela avoided authoritarian rule during those decades—today an elected government rules in every Latin American country except Cuba and H...