Haworth Press was a publisher of scholarly, academic and trade books, and approximately 200 peer-reviewed
academic journal
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s. It was founded in 1978 by the publishing industry executives Bill Cohen and Patrick Mcloughlin. The name was taken from the township of
Haworth in England, the home of the
Brontë sisters.
Many of the Haworth publications cover very specialized material, ranging from mental health, occupational therapy, psychology, psychiatry, addiction studies, social work, interdisciplinary social sciences, library & information science, LGBT studies, agriculture, pharmaceutical science, health care, medicine, and other fields.
Their first publication was ''
Library Security Newsletter
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''. Their early publications were all in the fields of
library and information science and in social work. As of 2006, they expected to publish over 230 periodicals and over 100 books.
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In 2003, the Press developed a publishing program in popular culture, under the direction of Marshall Fishwick of ]Virginia Tech
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.
In 2005, Haworth Press began using Pain Exhibit
The PAIN Exhibit "is an educational, visual arts exhibit from artists with chronic pain with their art expressing some facet of the pain experience. The mission of the PAIN Exhibit is to educate health care providers and the public about chronic pa ...
art on the cover of their ''Journal of Pain and Palliative Care Pharmacotherapy
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An edit ...
''. Art from the Pain Exhibit
The PAIN Exhibit "is an educational, visual arts exhibit from artists with chronic pain