Books published by Temple University Press,U.S.

A text on the nature of medical error. Covering a wider range of error than the terms 'malpractice', 'incompetence', or 'negligence' denote, it takes an existential view of medical work in which things go wrong as a matter of course, and probes what the author called the 'complex sorrow' that can result when things do go wrong.

Examines the ways in which the colonial history of the Philippines shaped Filipino American identity, culture, and community formation. This book shows how an understanding of this history provides a foundation for theoretical frameworks for Filipino American studies.

Employs contemporary and traditional readings of representative works of prose, poetry, and drama to establish the ongoing significance of these works to the American literary canon.

Drawing on the cosmopolitan sensibility of scholars like Anthony Appiah, Vinay Dharwadker, Martha Nussbaum, Bruce Robbins, and Amartya Sen, this book argues that to read the body of South Asian American literature justly, one must engage with the urgencies of places as diverse as Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, India, Burma, Pakistan, and Trinidad.

Shows why Paul Longmore is one of the most respected figures in disability studies. Understanding disability as a major variety of human experience, he urges us to establish it as a category of social, political, and historical analysis in much the same way that race, gender, and class already have been.