The only anthology available on material constitution, this book collects important recent work on well known puzzles in metaphysics and philosophy of mind. The extensive, clearly written introduction helps to make the essays accessible to a wide audience.
Since the launch of the Human Genome project in 1990, understanding molecular and clinical genetics has become an essential aspect of modern medical education. Solid knowledge of genetics is now crucial to a host of healthcare professionals including primary care physicians, nurses and physician assistants. This third edition takes this crucial information and incorporates it into a student-friendly format that focuses on the core concept of human genetics. Each chapter uses the same problem-based approach as the previous editions, and addresses the important role of genetics and disease by integrating molecular and clinical genetics.
Children With Prenatal Drug Exposure examines new medical approaches for predicting the developmental progress of children who have been exposed to drugs in utero. This book outlines effective methods for intervention and assessment and indicates future directions for investigation. It provides practical and up-to-date information on treatments and research development, while it encourages practitioners to come to their own conclusions through careful documentation and analysis of each case.Children With Prenatal Drug Exposure cuts across many disciplines to provide the reader with a vivid analysis of the complexities and challenges surrounding health care of children who have been prenatally exposed to drugs. This guidebook explores the controversies over treatment and therapy options and the ethics of care. It advocates positive outcome intervention methods that promote the health interests of both mother and unborn child whenever possible, with an emphasis on clinical efforts geared to change maternal behavior.Practical and comprehensive, Children With Prenatal Drug Exposure explores a full range of provoking topics, including: neurological effects and sensory motor delays caused by cocaine exposure foster care and its impact on motor development adolescent pregnancy and the complications of prenatal substance abuse ethical dilemmas multidimensional measurement systems and longitudinal researchThe book’s authors believe that in order to meet the needs of children who have been prenatally exposed to drugs, care providers must know the limitations associated with the process and methodology of assessment and learn to address the shortcomings of evaluation. With this in mind, this book aims to equip psychologists, physical and occupational therapists, researchers, and physicians with the “know-how” they require for optimizing their health care services and contributing valuable research that the field so urgently needs.
Dealing with anthicidae, this is one of a series which presents New Zealand's invertebrate fauna. Each volume contains a checklist of the taxa, an introduction to the group, descriptions of the taxa, and illustrations.
What does a pre-teen girl in early Texas treasure most in the world? - her family, her home, her identity. Hannah Grace Williams suffers the loss of all three in the Killough Massacre of 1838. As far as she knows, she is the sole survivor and so throws her lot in with a family of friendly Cherokee Indians. In Part Two, she accompanies her "new" family to the Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) when all Indians are expelled from Texas. However, bad weather and back luck force the Cherokees and Hannah back toward Texas, although good friends make it a difficult move. Part Three sees Hannah return to her roots in Talledega, Alabama, only to learn that the Killough family no longer lives there. Her fall-back plan is to return to Texas and the site of the earlier massacre. There, she finds her few remaining relatives and a new life for herself. Despite all the loss she has suffered, she finds that she "likes who she is.
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