We live today in a culture of full disclosure, where tell-all memoirs top the best-seller lists, transparency is lauded, and privacy seems imperiled. But how did we get here?
Exploring scores of previously sealed records, Family Secrets offers a sweeping account of how shame--and the relationshi[...]

In essays that engage practical, methodological, and to reflect upon their own research. In essays that engage practical, methodological, and theoretical questions, these contributors assess the gains-but also the obstacles and perils of research that traverses national boundaries.[...]

A Sunday Telegraph and Times Higher Education 'Book of the Week', Deborah Cohen's Family Secrets is a gripping book about what families - Victorian and modern - try to hide, and why. In an Edinburgh town house, a genteel maiden lady frets with her brother over their niece's downy upper lip. Would th[...]

Obesity is the public health crisis of the twenty-first century. Over 150 million Americans are overweight or obese, and across the globe an estimated 1.5 billion are affected. In "A Big Fat Crisis," Dr. Deborah A. Cohen has created a major new work that will transform the conversation surroundi[...]