Research & Faculty
Spotlight
Working the Difference Science, Spirit, and the Spread of Motivational Interviewing
E. Summerson Carr, Associate Professor; Joint Appointment with the Department of Anthropology; Associated Faculty, Comparative Human Development
Carr's new book focuses on the training and dissemination of Motivational Interviewing (MI) to explore how cultural forms-- and particularly forms of expertise-- emerge and spread. The result is a compelling analysis of the American preoccupations at MI's core, from democratic autonomy and freedom of speech to Protestant ethics and American pragmatism.
Spotlight
Grow and Hide: The History of America's Health Care State
Colleen M. Grogan, Deborah R. and Edgar D. Jannotta Professor and Deputy Dean for Curriculum
Grogan's new book documents the US healthcare system's public funding growth from 1860 to the present. She explains why the role of government has been hidden to appease private actors and highlights the importance of private actors controlling the narrative and the difficulty of reclaiming that narrative. Grogan argues that the public has been intentionally misled about the true role of government. The US created a publicly financed system while framing it as the opposite of what Grogan terms the "grow-and-hide regime."
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The first scholarly journal in the field of social work, SSR provides multidisciplinary analyses of current policies and past practices from social welfare scholars and practitioners, as well as from experts in other fields.