"In Precarious Prescriptions, Laurie B. Green, John Mckiernan-González, and Martin Summers bring together essays that place race, citizenship, and gender at the center of questions about health and disease. Exploring the interplay between disease as a biological phenomenon, illness as a subjective experience, and race as an ideological construct, this volume weaves together a complicated history to show the role that health and medicine ..."
"After decades of scholarship on the civil rights movement at the local level, the insights of bottom-up movement history remain essentially invisible in the accepted narrative of the movement and peripheral to debates on how to research, document, and teach about the movement. This collection of original works refocuses attention on this bottom-up history and compels a rethinking of what and who we think is central to the movement.The e ..."
"Exploring the interplay between disease as a biological phenomenon, illness as a subjective experience, and race as an ideological construct, this volume weaves together a complicated history to show the role that health and medicine have ..."
"During the second half of the nineteenth century, Memphis, Tennessee, had the largest metropolitan population of African Americans in the Mid-South region and served as a political hub for civic organizations and grassroots movements. On April 4, 1968, the city found itself at the epicenter of the civil rights movement when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel. Nevertheless, despite the many significant even ..."
"Exploring the interplay between disease as a biological phenomenon, illness as a subjective experience, and race as an ideological construct, this volume weaves together a complicated history to show the role that health and medicine have ..."
"many medicinal herbs which they use for wounds and other accidents with good
results; although, in their method of ... In addition to plant healing, Mexican
officials observed other Native healing rituals, constructing Native savagery ...
French scientist Jean Berlandier reported on healing traditions during his travels
through Texas on a Mexican military ... the professional medical world could
incorporate the “medicines known to ..."
"Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty has long been portrayed as the most potent symbol of all that is wrong with big government. Conservatives deride the War on Poverty for corruption and the creation of "poverty pimps," and even liberals carefully distance themselves from it. Examining the long War on Poverty from the 1960s onward, this book makes a controversial argument that the programs were in many ways a success, reducing poverty rates ..."
Santa Rosa County (Images of America: California) by LaurieGreen Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 1998 by Arcadia Publishing ISBN-13: 978-0-7385-5319-1, ISBN: 0-7385-5319-0
"The history of Santa Rosa County is closely associated with wood and water. Harvesting of the huge virgin pine trees that covered the area attracted industry and labor. Streams and rivers powered the machinery used to harvest the timber and also provided the means of transport. The sawmills, shipyards, turpentine stills, and related industriesmade Santa Rosa County the most industrialized county in Florida prior to the Civil War. After ..."
Battling the Plantation Mentality(Updated) Memphis and the Black Freedom Struggle (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture) by Laurie Beth Green, Laurie Boush Green Paperback, 432 Pages, Published 2007 by The University Of North Carolina Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8078-5802-8, ISBN: 0-8078-5802-1
"African American freedom is often defined in terms of emancipation and civil rights legislation, but it did not arrive with the stroke of a pen or the rap of a gavel. No single event makes this more plain, Laurie Green argues, than the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers' strike, which culminated in the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Exploring the notion of "freedom" in postwar Memphis, Green demonstrates that the civil rights move ..."
A Road in the Depths of the Sea (Paperback) by LaurieGreen Paperback, 132 Pages, Published 2019 by In The Depths Ministries, United States ISBN-13: 978-0-578-58891-9, ISBN: 0-578-58891-9
"Throughout this powerful story, we are reminded of God's ALWAYS new mercy in whatever the journey holds for all of us. This book is not just an amazing adoption story but is one of unbelievable hope."
Blessed Are the Poor? Urban Poverty and the Church by LaurieGreen Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2015 by Scm Press ISBN-13: 978-0-334-05365-1, ISBN: 0-334-05365-X
"Listening intently to what the poor have to say is Laurie Green's way into a new study of Jesus' most famous Beatitude - Blessed are the Poor. Combining years of pavement level experience with informed biblical analysis he sets out for us how the perspective of the poor opens us up to new biblical and theological insights. These issue in a radical rethink about mission and what it means to be Church in a post-secular society. The book i ..."
Let's Do Theology(2nd Edition) Resources for Contextual Theology; completely updated and revised by LaurieGreen Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2010 by Mowbray ISBN-13: 978-0-8264-2551-5, ISBN: 0-8264-2551-8
"This is an updated, critically acclaimed set text on Contextual Theological Method. This is an updated, new edition of a critically acclaimed set text on Contextual Theological Method. "Let's Do Theology" is an intensely practical book drawing examples from parish life and educational experience in the UK and overseas. It will describe how to strike the balance between unthinking but faithful action and careful theological reflection. T ..."
Let's Do Theology Resources for Contextual Theology; Completely Updated and Revised by LaurieGreen Published 2009 ISBN-13: 978-1-4411-3256-7, ISBN: 1-4411-3256-2
Let's Do Theology Resources for Contextual Theology by LaurieGreen Published 2009 ISBN-13: 978-1-4411-4537-6, ISBN: 1-4411-4537-0
Let's Do Theology Resources for Contextual Theology by LaurieGreen Published 2009 ISBN-13: 978-1-282-87464-0, ISBN: 1-282-87464-0
"With 90 per cent of the UK population now living in urban and suburban environments, the need for a practicable theology that can be applied in our cities and towns has never been greater. Laurie Green, a published author in the field of contextual theology, seeks to meet that need here. He begins with an overview of the history of urban ministry and notes what radical change has occurred in recent years. He then reflects on past and pr ..."
Let's Do Theology A Pastoral Cycle Resource Book by LaurieGreen, Lord Buckley Paperback, 168 Pages, Published 2002 by Continuum ISBN-13: 978-0-8264-6095-0, ISBN: 0-8264-6095-X
"Aims to demonstrate how people can use theology to deal with real life problems, using the author's own experiences whilst working with adults and examining their experiences using the gospel. The author has also written "Power to the Powerless"."