A century of overcrowded homes in L.A.: How we reported it
Our story on overcrowded housing involved dozens of interviews and visits to tightly packed apartments where COVID-19 ran rampant.
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Our story on overcrowded housing involved dozens of interviews and visits to tightly packed apartments where COVID-19 ran rampant.
Abelnels.jpg Welcome back to the UVA Press Author's Corner! Today, we are happy to bring you our conversation with Emily K. Abel and Margaret K. Nelson, coauthors of LIMITED CHOICES: Mable Jones, a Black Children's Nurse in a Northern White Household, out this week.
FICTIONKatharine Parr, The Sixth Wife by Alison WeirHaving sent his much-beloved but deceitful young wife Katheryn Howard to her beheading, King Henry fixe
Emily K. Abel Emily K. Abel is professor emerita of public health and women’s studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the author of several books, including Sick and Tired: An Intimate History of Fatigue and Hearts of Wisdom: American Women Caring for Kin, 1850–1940.
summary Medicine finally has discovered fatigue. Recent articles about various diseases conclude that fatigue has been underrecognized, underdiagnosed, and undertreated. Scholars in the social sciences and humanities have also ignored the phenomenon. As a result, we know little about what it means to live with this condition, especially given its diverse symptoms and causes. Emily K. Abel offers the first history of fatigue, one that is scrupulously researched but also informed by her own experiences as a cancer survivor. Abel reveals how the limits of medicine and the American cultur...