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Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
First Free Press hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 306 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
What makes us the way we are? Is it the genes? The childhood environment? Or could it be that many of our individual characteristics--our health, our intelligence, our temperaments--are influenced by conditions encountered before birth? That's the claim of a provocative field known as fetal origins. Scientists are developing a radically new understanding of our very earliest experiences and how they exert lasting effects on us well into adulthood....
Author
Publisher
New York University Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xxiv, 171 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"What prenatal tests and down syndrome reveal about our reproductive choices. When Alison Piepmeier--scholar of feminism and disability studies, and mother of Maybelle, an eight-year-old girl with Down syndrome--died of cancer in August 2016, she left behind an important unfinished manuscript about motherhood, prenatal testing, and disability. In Unexpected, George Estreich and Rachel Adams pick up where she left off, honoring the important research...
Author
Language
English
Description
In 2015, after an outwardly uneventful pregnancy, Megan Nix's second daughter, Anna, was born terribly small and failed her newborn hearing test. Megan and her husband learned that Anna is completely deaf and could have lifelong delays due to an infection in the womb with cytomegalovirus, or CMV, a disease Megan unknowingly contracted from her toddler during pregnancy. Remedies for Sorrow is lyrically written and a searing critique of the paternalistic...
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