Published April, 2017
By Valli K. Ekvall and Shirley W. Ekvall
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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Published April, 2017
By Carl F. Cranor, Carl Cranor and Cranor
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
Series: The Romanell Lectures
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A world awash in little understood chemicals tragically harms adults and children alike. Laws keep health agencies in the dark about toxicants, slow, well motivated research hampers protections, and strenuous vested opposition exacerbates the harm. How science is used in the tort law can facilitate or frustrate redress of harm. This book recommends better approaches.

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Published April, 2017
By McKinsey L. Goodenberger, Brittany C. Thomas and Teresa Kruisselbrink
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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Published April, 2017
By Paula A. Michaels
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
Series: Oxford Studies in International History
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Reveals the surprising history of the Lamaze method of childbirth, also known as psychoprophylaxis, by tracing this psychological, non-pharmacological approach to obstetric pain relief from its origins in the USSR in the 1940s, to France in the 1950s, and to the United States in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Published April, 2017
By Gary Lee Wenk and Gary L. Wenk
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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This entertaining tour of the brain answers such fundamental questions as, What is the purpose of the brain? What is an emotion? What is a memory? How does food affect how you feel? Dr. Wenk has skillfully blended the highest scholarly standards with illuminating insights, gentle humor, and welcome simplicity.

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Published April, 2017
By Betty Ferrell, Constance Dahlin and Patrick Coyne
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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Published April, 2017
By Nancy Bristow
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In 1918-1919 influenza raged around the globe in the worst pandemic in recorded history. Focusing on those closest to the crisis-patients, families, communities, public health officials, nurses and doctors-this book explores the epidemic in the United States.

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Published April, 2017
By Sara Dubow
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Ourselves Unborn examines how, from the nineteenth century through the early twenty-first century, Americans with disparate experiences, beliefs, values, and interests have participated in arguments about the legal identity, physiological condition, social value, cultural significance, and political status of the human fetus.

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Published April, 2017
By Barbara Demeneix and Professor Barbara Demeneix
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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Children born to women exposed to thyroid-disrupting chemicals have lower IQs and more neurodevelopmental disorders in autism and ADHD, among others. Chemicals that contaminate our bodies and interfere with our thyroids are in fact lowering our IQ and increasing disorders for future generations. A "self-help" guide to reducing exposure to chemicals is included.

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Published April, 2017
By William L. Randall and William Lowell Randall
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In The Narrative Complexity of Ordinary Life, William L. Randall makes the case that all people function as narrative psychologists by continually storying their lives-as well as those of others-in memory and their imagination.

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