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Brain Is Born: Exploring the Birth and Development of the Central Nervous System
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Witness the dramatic unfolding of the human form in all its potential. Join John E. Upledger, D.O., O.M.M., as he takes you from the union of sperm and egg through the development of the complex circuitry that makes up the human brain. You'll learn about birth, growth, function and dysfunction, and how all these aspects influence physical, mental, and emotional well-being. For easy reference, he also maps out the central nervous system and the functions of all its parts. You'll discover problems that can alter brain and spinal cord development in each of the first eight weeks of pregnancy, and then monthly right through delivery. A Brain Is Born details some of the insults and injuries that can affect the newborn and commonsense ways to avoid them. Perhaps most importantly, he provides an outline of simple physical tests that can help determine the status of a baby's nervous system, including a step-by-step process for treating potential problems through the use of CranioSacral Therapy and related therapeutic approaches. This breakthrough book empowers parents with knowledge to help them make practical decisions concerning the health of their children.
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LMT.......2006-08-13
An excellent resource book for development and function of the nervous system. Written in an easy to understand language with great illustrations to accompany otherwise complex functions within the human body.
Great book for expectant mothers.......2005-06-28
Dr. Upledger's "Brain Is Born" proves a delightful read for the curious expectant mother. This book is designed to give the lay reader detailed insight into how a baby is created and develops from fertilization until the baby is born.
I found this work fascinating. The whole time I read the book, I reminded myself to make sure and read this book when I'm pregnant. Each week Dr. Uplegder tells you want part of your baby's brain and body is growing and how your health and emotions can affect this growing process.
The frequent drawings, while not technical, serve to lighten up a subject-neurology- that would otherwise prove daunting for some readers. If your a super curious pregnant mother that wants to be well informed about your growing baby, you'll want to read this book.
Excellent book for prospective and curious parents!.......2000-03-06
I found this book to be an excellent source of information valuable to all parents interested in the brain function of their children. Dr. Upledger has a way of taking complicated subjects and making them understandable to non medical people like myself. I found the cartoon drawings very helpful in bringing humor and easing what could be overwhelming or "scary" medical information.
Mostly an advertisement; poorly written........1999-07-23
Mostly an advertisement for the author's CrainioSacral therapy, this book is poorly written and full of crude hand-drawn figures.
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By April 1952, New York City had issued two and a half million metal dogtags to all public, private, and parochial school children; the primary reason: to help identify the dead after a sneak nuclear attack. It was just another part of making Americans feel safer while living at ground zero.
In Life Under a Cloud, Allan Winkler presents a fascinating history of the irony, anxiety, and official insanity of the atomic age. He begins with the prewar search for fission, showing how the advent of war snowballed independent scientific investigation into the mammoth Manhattan Project.
The first atomic bomb test was a revelation to the scientists (J. Robert Oppenheimer was moved to quote Hindu scripture: "Now I am become Death, destroyer of worlds"); but the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki sparked an atomic craze, as bars served drinks like the "Atomic Cocktail," and Life
magazine dubbed a model Miss Anatomic Bomb. Winkler deftly unfolds the debate over the bomb that raged among scientists and intellectuals, even as the Cold War impelled the military to demand more and bigger bombs--culminating in the "Super," as the hydrogen bomb was nicknamed. He weaves together
military strategy (as the nuclear arms establishment took on immense proportions), policymaking in the White House, and the effects of the nuclear arms race on the public. The atomic age was a gold mine for science fiction and comic books, while scientists expressed their concern in the Bulletin of
the Atomic Scientists and other publications. The hydrogen bomb tests of the 1950s brought the problem of fallout into the popular eye, creating pressure for a nuclear test ban as well as a craze for bomb shelters and civil defense. Winkler also traces the rise and fall of the civilian uses of
atomic power, from Hyman Rickover's first pilot reactor to the crisis brought on by Three Mile Island and Chernobyl. He shows how the momentum of the arms race faltered in the 1970s, with the first nuclear arms limitation treaties, and follows the story up through the 1980s, as nuclear anxieties
climaxed in the freeze movement and plans for the Star Wars missile defense system. Even before the collapse of the Soviet Union, he writes, public and scientific protests had begun to slow the Star Wars steamroller, marking a break with the nearly unstoppable arms-building inertia of the Cold War.
Ranging across popular culture, scientific thought, military strategy, and political history, Life Under a Cloud provides a comprehensive account of America's turbulent relationship with the atom. From the Manhattan Project through the Bush administration, it captures the gravity--and
insanity--of a period that continues to haunt the post-Cold War era.
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This digital document is an article from Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, published by Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science, Inc. on December 1, 1993. The length of the article is 1032 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Life Under a Cloud: American Anxiety About the Atom.
Author: John Abbotts
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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 1993
Publisher: Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science, Inc.
Volume: v49
Issue: n10
Page: p51(2)
Article Type: Book Review
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Liberal Professions and Illiberal Politics: Hungary from the Habsburgs to the Holocaust
Maria M. Kovacs
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In this important new historical study, Maria Kovacs examines the struggle between liberal and anti-Semitic policies among professional groups--doctors, lawyers, engineers--in Hungary. Kovacs's main emphasis is on the interwar period when unemployment, expansion of the welfare system, and competition for state jobs during the Great Depression, combined with crass anti-Semitism on the part of engineers and medical associations, radically altered previously liberal policies of open entry and equal educational opportunity. Liberal Professions and Illiberal Politics analyzes to what extent these new policies were dictated by authoritarian governments from above and to what extent they originated within the professions themselves. The story ends with the Holocaust, which sealed the fate of those professionals who had become victims of persecution under the German occupation of Hungary.
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This book examines the nature of medical knowledge, how it is obtained, and how it can be used for decision support. It provides complete coverage of computational approaches to clinical decision-making. Chapters discuss data integration into healthcare information systems and delivery to point of care for providers, as well as facilitation of direct to consumer access. A case study section highlights critical lessons learned, while another portion of the work examines biostatistical methods including data mining, predictive modelling, and analysis. This book additionally addresses organizational, technical, and business challenges in order to successfully implement a computer-aided decision-making support system in healthcare delivery.
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Over the past half-century, the social terrain of health and illness has been transformed. What were once considered normal human events and common human problems -- birth, aging, menopause, alcoholism, and obesity -- are now viewed as medical conditions. For better or worse, medicine increasingly permeates aspects of daily life.
Building on more than three decades of research, Peter Conrad explores the changing forces behind this trend with case studies of short stature, social anxiety, "male menopause," erectile dysfunction, adult ADHD, and sexual orientation. He examines the emergence of and changes in medicalization, the consequences of the expanding medical domain, and the implications for health and society. He finds in recent developments -- such as the growing number of possible diagnoses and biomedical enhancements -- the future direction of medicalization.
Conrad contends that the impact of medical professionals on medicalization has diminished. Instead, the pharmaceutical and biotechnical industries, insurance companies and HMOs, and the patient as consumer have become the major forces promoting medicalization. This thought-provoking study offers valuable insight into not only how medicalization got to this point but also how it may continue to evolve.
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Perceptions of health and the human condition.......2007-10-07
THE MEDICALIZATION OF SOCIETY: ON THE TRANSFORMATION OF HUMAN CONDITIONS INTO TREATABLE DISORDERS provides an overview of a field which recounts our love/hate relationship with the health professionals and the business side of health care systems, making for a complex analysis perfect for college-level health libraries and social science collections alike. Chapters build on over thirty years of research to explore trends in health care, treatment, and perceptions of health and the human condition, using common medical problems to consider their changing treatment and its implications for society as a whole.
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The Academic Health Center and Health Care Reform
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This timely volume contains the proceedings of a conference in which leaders of academic health centers and other health care organizations discussed the role of the academic health center (AHC) in the current health care system. The contributors define the missions of the AHC, examine the economic environment in which it operates, and propose ways in which the AHC can be restructured to participate more productively in health care. The major problem addressed is the increasing difficulty AHCs face in generating sufficient revenue from clinical practice to support their educational and research activities. Full consideration is given to ways in which AHCs can offer clinical services that are competitive with HMOs and other nonacademic health care providers. Key issues discussed include developing a primary care network, increasing facilities for ambulatory care, and designing and operating multispecialty clinics.
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Alternatives to Animal Testing: New Ways in the Biomedical Sciences, Trends, and Progress
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Clinical Laboratory Science In The Changing Scene Of Healthcare
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This major new comparative text, which is aimed at both students and practitioners, analyzes key issues in health policy to assess the extent to which policy problems and responses in different countries have common causes or spring from specific national circumstances. It analyzes what lessons can be learned about public/private mixes, provision and funding frameworks, and acute and preventive services in a wide range of health systems - systematically comparing Australia, Germany, Japan, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Sweden, Singapore, the UK and the US, but ranging more widely as appropriate.
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The Health of Aging Hispanics: The Mexican-Origin Population
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The population of the United States, like that of most other nations, will age rapidly well into the 21st century. By 2025, at least one-fifth of the population in 15 countries in the Americas is to be age 60 or over. Additionally, as the result of high immigration and fertility rates, as well as improvements in life expectancy, the United States Census Bureau projects that by 2050, the total number of non-Hispanic white aged 65 and over will more than triple, and the number of Hispanics in this age bracket will increase eleven fold. Despite these demographic facts, there is a significant dearth of information about the unique strengths and characteristics that underrepresented minority possess and experience as they age. Further examination of these understudied groups, especially among Hispanics – now the nation’s largest minority group – offers the possibility to promote healthy aging for the entire nation.
After years of research, researchers have a grasp of some of the complex issues and social and behavioral patters surrounding health that impact older Hispanic people, especially those of Mexican ancestry. The connection between immigration and health is complex and a host of factors related to immigration processes both in terms of the initial migration from Mexico (health selection) and subsequent incorporation into the United States (social causation) affect multiple health outcomes. In the coming decades, it will be critical to develop a better understanding of how immigration from Mexico, Latin America and other sending nations in Asia and Africa, produces health disparities in our aging population.
In the proposed book, contributors will provide initial information on numerous factors that affect the health security of Mexican-origin families and individuals as they face the burdens of decline in health status and caring for children and the elderly simultaneously. Also included is material addressing important issues related to the contemporary political debate on immigration and healthcare reform in the United States and Mexico.
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Mainstreaming of Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Studies in Social Context
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The Mainstreaming of Complementary and Alternative Medicine allows a complex and informative picture to emerge of the different social forces at play in the integration of CAM with orthodox medicine.
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