An immersive analysis of camp life and soldiers' well-being during the Civil War

The Civil War was a watershed in public awareness of the many health-related issues soldiers faced while living in camps. Sanitarians among civilians and regular army officers attempted to meet those challenges by addressing a range of topics associated with preventive healthcare in the volunteer army. The US Sanitary Commission, a nongovernmental agency sanctioned by the Federal government, created a massive campaign to study conditions in semipermanent camps and advise unit commanders how to avoid unnecessary illness and curb soldier deaths by disease. Commission inspectors, mostly civilian physicians, examined camps from 1861 to early 1864 and filed more than 1,400 reports of their findings.

Earl J. Hess delves deeply into 280 of those reports, shedding new and startling light on camp conditions. Addressing camp situation, shelter, clothing, personal cleanliness, garbage disposal, latrines, food, cooking, water, alcohol, morale, recruit examination, smallpox vaccination, regimental hospitals, and officer supervision, the camp inspection returns are unique snapshots of what it was like to live in a Union army camp. The reports reveal that sanitation varied widely from unit to unit and across time periods. Volunteer regimental officers and surgeons were often unable to take sanitary principles seriously, and disposing of garbage and human waste was often nonexistent. Overall, the volunteer regiments did well enough to get by, but they did not achieve high marks for military effectiveness when it came to preventive healthcare.

Civil War Camps and Soldier Health is a thought-provoking, impeccably researched volume that enriches our understanding of the sanitation challenges facing the Union army camps as well as how these challenges were recorded and examined by early researchers.

Synthetic Intelligence in Education introduces the groundbreaking concept of synthetic intelligence, referring to a harmonious blend of human and artificial intelligence. Yufeng Qian explores how today's generative AI and future systems can create a progressive learning environment where human cognition and AI capabilities work together, fostering co-learning experiences that surpass the possibilities of previous technological eras.

Arriving at a critical moment, this volume addresses the urgent need for a fundamental shift in mindset, pedagogical vision, and professional practice. As AI becomes increasingly integrated into educational tools and practices, many educators and learners still rely on outdated methods and lack the frameworks to engage with AI meaningfully. Synthetic Intelligence in Education provides a clear and accessible roadmap for educators, researchers, and policymakers to navigate the evolving landscape of AI in education.

The book examines the theoretical foundations of synthetic intelligence, emphasizing the cognitive and pedagogical principles that support meaningful human-AI collaboration. Through practical examples and actionable strategies, it shows how synthetic intelligence can be applied across diverse educational contexts.

Exploring a wide range of written discourse on early modern brewing and the material features and practices contributing to those conversations, this book demonstrates the considerable role that discussions of drink played in defining the boundaries of human life and action in England and beyond.

The social meaning of drink was an ever-contested cultural site in the early modern Atlantic. From complaints about watered-down ale to suspicions around ingredients and imported foreign wines to the moral blame assigned to alehouses and inns for drunkenness and raucous behavior, early modern writers saw the fermentation process as just one of many sites in which drink signified change. Discussing beer and brewing meant defining the limits of human rationality, markers of individual and collective identity, and the nature of responsibility. This book's interdisciplinary approach draws upon texts as varied as brewing manuals, manuscript receipt books, plays, broadside ballads, and joke books to show the two-way conversation between these complex cultural works and the materiality of fermented drink as a cultural artifact.

This book will be useful for graduate students and scholars of early modern English literature and early American literature, food studies, food history, and material culture.

The Godefroy Family of Scholars, 1580-1880 gives an inside look at the workings of a scholarly dynasty: the roles played by wives, its training methods for children, their habits of correspondence, and the struggles that broke out when the family fought about the direction of their work.

Beginning with their influential editions of the Corpus Iuris Civilis and the Codex Theodosianus, the Godefroy dynasty built a family business that survived three centuries, drawing on their collective work in humanist law and French history. They married into other learned families, collaborated with their cousins, trained their sons, and passed down their papers, publishing projects, and positions as royal historiographers and archivists through the generations, creating a niche in scholarship and a reputation for erudition that they collectively defended from interlopers. They were but one of the most successful and longest lasting of the phenomenon of early modern scholarly families that staked their livelihoods on their expertise. Only by including the "family" as an actor within intellectual history can we appreciate how the methodologies of humanism were transmitted into the Enlightenment and beyond.

This book is intended for early modern historians of intellectual history, legal history, gender and family, and France.

On November 3, 1979, in Greensboro, North Carolina, the Communist Workers Party (CWP) planned a "Death to the Klan" march in the predominately Black, working-class, public housing community of Morningside Homes. Nazis and Klansmen drove through and unloaded gunfire killing five CWP members. This work sets apart the story of Morningside Homes residents in this tragedy.

The book outlines three key contributions, recognizing the fight for equality beyond the civil rights movement, centering local history, and tying race and class together to underscore "the disregard for the impoverished." It also offers a goal of becoming a blueprint for reconciliation and healing. It builds on previous notions about the relationship between political ideologies such as communism and the ways in which Black movements connected or disconnected with those ideas depending on their class and geographic positionality.

This book will be of interest to scholars in civil rights/Black Power history and urban history, specifically those studying the ways in which notions of community politics in the urban South worked to dismantle racial residential segregation.

This approachable volume uncovers the often-hidden history behind the persistence and resilience of modern slavery in the United States, tracing its evolution from the forced labor on nineteenth-century plantations to today's hidden global networks of coercion, exploitation and human trafficking.

In the period leading up to our modern era, Americans participated in, and profited from, the enslavement of African men and women, Native American children, Chinese peasants, Polynesian islanders, American sailors, and teenage girls from Asia and Eastern Europe. Historical in approach, American Slavery Since Abolition explores the evolution of distinctly modern forms of exploitation such as the Prison Industrial Complex, the gig economy, enslavement by the algorithm, cloning and organ theft. Engaging with concepts of agency and coercion, wage slavery and economic inequality, the book unravels how old systems of domination seem to have been continuously reshaped and reinvigorated by new technologies, requiring ever-expanding supply chains. It shows how these encourage exploitation, despite near-continuous efforts to abolish the repulsive trade in human misery, and in doing so, exposes the troubling ways in which the modern USA, and most other economies, continue to participate in, and depend on, unfree labor.

Lucid and unsettling, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of American history, politics, sociology and American studies.

This edited collection presents stories of how university STEM faculty can engage in systemic change toward greater equity. Sharing both successes and struggles, the collection highlights the impact of collective learning that a well-designed community of practice can have on both individual faculty members and the wider research community.

All chapter contributors participated in carefully structured communities of practice designed to deepen their understanding of systemic racism and structural inequities in higher education, and they use this understanding to develop concrete action plans to address an inequity within their sphere of influence. In each chapter, faculty members reflect on their goals, implementation processes, measurable impacts, and the barriers and strategies they encountered along the way. Exploring breakthrough moments, ongoing struggles, and institutional contexts and relationships, these narratives reveal the breadth of equity-oriented initiatives across higher education and demonstrate how individual faculty can serve as catalysts for institutional change.

A unique and forward-thinking collection, this book will serve as both model and practical guide for educators seeking to advance similar equity work at their own institutions.

This proceedings compilation celebrates the power of education, culture, and communication in advancing the Sustainable Development Goals, particularly Quality Education (SDG 4). Through interdisciplinary dialogue, it explores how innovation, inclusion, and global citizenship learning shape today's educational and social landscapes, bridging boundaries between language, culture, and human well-being.

This volume is organized around three major strands - Language, Culture & Communication; Curriculum & Instruction; and Gender, Health, Wellness & Well-being in Education. The papers delve into themes of multilingual identity, cultural hybridity, digital and media literacy, and creative pedagogy. Other works investigate teacher professional development, technology-enhanced instruction, and the use of AI and machine learning for improving educational quality and self-regulated learning. In alignment with SDG 4, many contributions emphasize equitable access, lifelong learning, and the cultivation of 21stcentury skills like critical thinking, collaboration, and creativity. Collectively, these studies illuminate how education and the humanities can empower individuals and communities toward resilience, empathy, and sustainable global progress.

It is designed for educators, researchers, policymakers, and practitioners in education, humanities, and social sciences. It offers evidence-based insights and practical reflections for those committed to promoting inclusive, high-quality learning, strengthening teacher capacity, and fostering cultural understanding in pursuit of sustainable and equitable futures.

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

Grounded in community epistemology and scholarship, this edited volume explores how doctoral educational leadership programs can evolve to remain socially responsive and globally relevant amidst a rapidly shifting global landscape, using a specific Educational and Community Leadership (EDCL) program as a case study.

Positioning the EDCL program as a living case study, the book explores the intersection between educational leadership and socio-political dynamics. Chapters examine how graduate students navigate contested spaces such as globalization versus localization, democracy versus centralized control, and the impact of neoliberalism in politically unstable environments. Within this paradigm, the book explores a broad range of themes, including self-reflexivity and identity formation, community-centered leadership and social justice, and feminist reflections on growth and resistance. In particular, the book examines and further develops several key theories and models that have the potential to significantly enhance the inclusivity and resilience of education systems and community structures. By examining the intersections of leadership, equity, innovation, community engagement, and systemic transformation, this volume offers insights that extend beyond a single institution, serving as both a blueprint and a call to action for shaping future educational leadership development programs worldwide.

Ultimately extending theoretical discussions on leadership education beyond institutional boundaries, the book provides a globally relevant framework for understanding leadership in times of transformation. It will therefore be of interest to scholars, researchers, and postgraduate students in the field of educational leadership strategy.

This book provides a clear, actionable blueprint for turning compelling literacy research into meaningful classroom practice by reuniting reading and writing instruction in the service of all students, including those from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

Drawing on the latest research and grounded in a structured literacy framework, the book offers a two-part journey: contextual foundations and actionable instructional strategies. Through thoughtfully sequenced "Connect-Learn-Act-Reflect" cycles, each chapter fosters reflective practice and data-informed decision making, urging readers to align their pedagogy with the latest research from cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and education to create integrated literacy experiences in their classroom.

From foundational letter-sound correspondences to advanced comprehension and written expression, this book connects theory to practice, empowering educators to close the research-to-practice gap and build integrated literacy instruction for all students.

Through wide-ranging thematic chapters, this book offers students a comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of monarchy across Europe in the Middle Ages.

The volume is separated into four themes: Concepts of Rulership, Exercising Authority, Dynasty and Succession, and Ritual and Representation. Each theme has four chapters that give the student an overview of key concepts supported by rich examples taken from monarchies across Europe, both in the text and in the Spotlight and Source Studies. The textbook offers an examination of areas which are frequently overlooked, such as the Balkan region, the Scandinavian kingdoms, and the Crusader States in the Latin East. In addition, a prologue, written by Rutger Kramer, discusses the legacy of the Carolingians on medieval rulership, and an epilogue places the monarchies of medieval Europe in context with their global counterparts. Further reading suggestions at the end of each chapter will help students develop their knowledge of medieval monarchy and the history of rulers and realms of the period.

Exploring Monarchy in Medieval Europe, 1000-1500 is a foundational text for courses on medieval monarchy as well as a useful supplementary text for students of medieval European history.

Resilient Caregiving for Neurodivergent Children is a supportive, neuroaffirming, and practical guide that helps caregivers protect their own well-being while managing the emotional and day-to-day challenges of raising a neurodivergent child.

Grounded in evidence-based practices, this invaluable guide blends strategies from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), along with real-life stories and clinical experience. Unlike many parenting resources that focus primarily on the child, this book places the caregiver's emotional health at the center of family well-being. Parents, caregivers, and guardians will learn how to make space for difficult emotions, such as shame and guilt, ease their overwhelm, and reconnect with their values while building sustainable self-care habits. Chapters include reflective exercises, illustrative case stories, sample scripts, as well as key takeaways to help readers find strength and build emotional resilience at different stages of their caregiving journey. This book offers essential resources to help caregivers prevent burnout and help their child-and themselves-thrive.

Combining therapeutic tools with a lived understanding of neurodiversity, this book provides compassionate approaches to care and self-care for parents, guardians, and professionals alike.

Why do some of us grow up too soon and spend a lifetime caring for others at the cost of ourselves? In this deeply humane study, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Mark Kinet explores parentification: the invisible role reversal in which children become their parents' caretakers, confidants, or even partners.

Blending vivid clinical portraits, psychoanalytic depth and literary sensibility, Kinet traces how early caregiving shapes our psychic architecture, how it builds resilience but also leaves enduring fractures. Drawing on Freud, Ferenczi, Balint, Klein, Winnicott, Bion, Kernberg, Kohut, Bowlby, Fonagy, and Lacan, as well as infant research and contemporary neuropsychoanalysis, he reconstructs the unconscious history of the 'wise baby,' the 'wounded healer,' and the adult child who cannot stop repairing others. Across richly textured chapters and cinematic intermezzos, Kinet interweaves theory and therapy, empathy and analysis. He demonstrates how psychoanalytic work can transform the 'inherited' burden of parentification into creative care.

Written with clarity and compassion, The Psychodynamics and Psychogenesis of Parentification is both a clinical study and a meditation on the human need to give and be given to. It speaks to therapists, scholars, and all readers seeking to understand the paradox of 'loving' too much and too early.

Addressing the intersection between analytical psychology and neuroscience, this book applies the science of memory reconsolidation to Jungian methods of dream interpretation to reexamine Carl Jung's vision of archetypes and the collective unconscious.

Writing from the perspective of depth and clinical psychology, the author explores how dreams and dreamwork promote neuroplastic changes in the brain, arguing that by developing a relationship with dreams, memories evolve into new emotional experiences. Chapters analyze several dream series through Jungian dream interpretation and connect to several core themes in analytical psychology research, including archetypes, complexes, cultural complexes, and the concept of the "other," using both the author's own dreams and those of others. Chapters thereby provide concrete illustrations of the neuroscience process of memory reconsolidation concerning Jungian dream interpretation, affecting debate within the two academic fields.

Ultimately contributing new scholarship for those interested in mapping the human brain by understanding the neurobiology of dreams, the book will be of use to scholars, researchers, and postgraduate students in Jungian and analytical psychology, depth psychology, and sleep and dreaming studies.

Discerning insights into how an Ignatian principle can redefine leadership and recenter organizations

Cura apostolica is a Latin phrase used by the Jesuits that simply means "care for the apostolate." More amply, this term implies the stewarding of a God-given collective enterprise, and thus it connotes caring for work that precedes the present moment and has the potential to accomplish something necessary and important for the human community across the horizon of the future. It complements-but can be overshadowed by-the idea of cura personalis, or "care for the whole person."

Leadership Lessons from the Jesuits shines a new light on the importance of cura apostolica in mission-driven organizations. Through his curation of valuable contributions from experienced leaders of Jesuit institutions, Matthew E. Carnes, SJ, articulates the ways in which conscientious care for the work, cultivation of the mission, and attention to identity can transform institutional behavior, business strategy, and the act of leading itself. The book reveals that where cura apostolica takes root, an organization's greater purpose flourishes.

Leaders in mission-driven, educational, and nonprofit sectors will grow as they reflect on these unique perspectives and Jesuit lessons.

This book constructs a model of informed consent to surgery utilising empirical ethics and socio-legal analysis to bring together medical ethics, medical professional regulation, and medical law. The work includes an original socio-legal analysis of the models of informed consent to surgery present in court judgments and fitness to practise decisions. It constructs such a model using the empirical ethics methodology of reflexive balancing to both develop and challenge its construction. This unified model enables patients to make autonomous choices about surgery by encouraging healthcare professionals to draw upon the patient's subjective perspective, as well as objective viewpoints, when determining what information needs to be given to patients about treatment. It incorporates a focus on the importance of patients understanding that information and having the opportunity to reflect upon it. The outcome is a model of informed consent to surgery that speaks to medical ethics, medical professional regulation, and medical law, giving equivalent weight to the insights offered by each. The book will be an invaluable resource for students, academics and researchers working in the area of Medical Law and Ethics and Bioethics.

This book offers a bold and comprehensive vision for creating, leading, and sustaining experiential learning (EL) ecosystems on college campuses. Drawing on extensive interviews with EL experts and collaboratively written by eight seasoned professionals, it redefines EL not just as a learning method but as a dynamic ecosystem of people, practices, policies, and institutional structures. This crucial shift in perspective will empower educators and administrators to embrace the diversity of EL and leverage its strengths through cross-campus collaboration. Readers will find practical tools and actionable strategies to deepen their EL objectives, connect with allies across campus, and build a shared vision for the future of EL in U.S. higher education. Whether read sequentially or consulted for situational advice, this book serves as an essential resource for advancing sustainable and impactful EL practices.

Case Studies in School Psychology comprehensively introduces the NASP Practice Model through active discussion of real-life, school-based examples of issues facing school psychologists.

Incorporating all ten domains of practice, these true-to-life scenarios span individual child, class-wide, school-wide, and district/community-wide organizational levels across multiple age and developmental ranges. This updated second edition features new cases on reading interventions, teleconsultation, promotion of diversity and inclusion, and equity in disciplinary practices. It includes updated data charts and references, and it opens each case with new descriptions of a given NASP Domain while closing with discussion questions and advanced applications.

Graduate students will better understand their expansive roles and potential avenues to make positive impacts as school psychologists in children's academic, social, emotional, and behavioral development.

Provides comprehensive guidance on harnessing artificial intelligence for neuroscience research and clinical applications

The rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) has created new opportunities for advancing the study of the brain. While recent scholarship has focused on how neuroscience can inform the design of AI systems, there is a growing need for resources that demonstrate how AI can be applied to support neuroscience research and practice. Artificial Intelligence in Neuroscience offers a detailed introduction to AI technologies and their transformative potential for fields ranging from neuroimaging and genetics to mental healthcare and neuro-oncology.

Structured around four major areas, the book begins by exploring the shared history of AI and neuroscience, from single-neuron modeling and action potentials to contemporary learning mechanisms. It then examines how AI can be used as a data analysis tool in genetics, proteomics, histology, cognition, and population health, before turning to clinical applications such as biologically plausible cognitive models, connectionist frameworks, and reinforcement learning. Additional chapters consider emerging applications, including robotics, drug screening, brain-computer interfaces, and language models. The volume concludes with a critical discussion of ethical and privacy issues, ensuring readers are equipped to navigate the responsibilities that accompany technological innovation.

Wide in scope and filled with practical insights, Artificial Intelligence in Neuroscience:

• Explores the historical intersections between AI and neuroscience to contextualize current innovations
• Demonstrates applications of AI in neuroimaging, genetics, and population health research
• Details clinical applications of AI models, including reinforcement learning and connectionist frameworks
• Highlights novel uses of AI in robotics, brain-computer interfaces, and drug discovery
• Integrates technical depth with applied case studies for both academic and clinical contexts

Artificial Intelligence in Neuroscience is ideal for graduate students, early career researchers, and established professionals in neuroscience, psychology, computer science, and medicine. It is well-suited for courses in computational neuroscience, AI in healthcare, and neuroinformatics within advanced degree programs in neuroscience, biomedical sciences, data science, and clinical psychology.

Drawing on case studies from around the world, this book explores how different professionals, organisations and agencies can and do intervene during the course of the dementia journey, from diagnosis to death, to ensure that care is integrated, coordinated and person-centred.

Dementia impacts greatly on the health and social care needs for the person with dementia and their families and carers, and there is evidence that integrated and coordinated care with collaboration from different organisations and agencies can lead to better quality of life outcomes. This innovative text critiques and challenges contemporary practice, providing examples of good practice globally and reflecting on how their inclusion within policy and practice could prevent the fragmentation of care. It includes chapters exploring collaborative care strategies in the UK, Ireland, the Netherlands, Japan, Qatar, the Philippines and Australia, each with a different thematic focus such as organising and planning care, education for practitioners, and multi-sectoral and community collaboration. Two further chapters draw on personal narratives of caring.

Providing a unique collection of best practice ideas for collaborative dementia care, this book is an essential resource for a wide range of health and social care practitioners, researchers, educators and students involved in dementia care and research.