Adoption
Rickie Solinger
in Reproductive Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What does adoption look like in the United States today?
In the middle of the twentieth century, adoption became a widespread practice in the United States when thousands of ...
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Alcohol and Health: Cheers!?
P.K. Newby
in Food and Nutrition: What Everyone Needs to Know®
How is alcohol handled in the body?
Alcohol is among the only drugs consumed regularly in the diet other than caffeine. It is water-soluble and distributed into all tissues and ...
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Birthing, Breast-Feeding, and Reproductive Politics
Rickie Solinger
in Reproductive Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know®
In what settings are babies born in the United States today?
In 1900 more than 95 percent of American women gave birth at home. Fourteen years later, anesthesia, or “twilight ...
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A Brief History of Nutrition: Scientific Discoveries and Applications
P.K. Newby
in Food and Nutrition: What Everyone Needs to Know®
How do we know what we know about food and health?
We eat every day, and we know how food makes us feel. Perhaps because of this, many overlook that nutrition is a discipline ...
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Contemporary Abortion III—Activism, Law, and Policy
Rickie Solinger
in Reproductive Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know®
How are state legislatures responding to abortion and satellite issues?
In recent years many state legislatures have defined abortion and efforts to limit the procedure as their ...
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Contemporary Abortion Politics I—Opinions and Science
Rickie Solinger
in Reproductive Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What are the most common objections to abortion today, and how have objections changed over time?
Objections to abortion have changed over time. In the nineteenth century, before ...
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Contemporary Abortion Politics Ii—experience and Practice
Rickie Solinger
in Reproductive Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What is the abortion rate in the United States and how has it changed in recent years?
After 1990, the number and rate of abortions declined every year for about a decade and a ...
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Contemporary Food Production, Buzzwords, and Pop Nutrition: Fact or Fiction?
P.K. Newby
in Food and Nutrition: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What are “processed” foods, and how do they fit into a healthy diet?
Food processing transforms raw agricultural crops into food products. For many, “processed foods” carries a ...
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Contraception
Rickie Solinger
in Reproductive Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What are the most commonly used forms of contraception in the United States?
Almost all heterosexual, sexually active women have used at least one form of contraception; nearly 90 ...
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Creating a Colorful Plate: Vegetables and Fruits
P.K. Newby
in Food and Nutrition: What Everyone Needs to Know®
How do vegetables differ nutritionally?
Botanically, vegetables are the edible parts of plants and, thus, technically include fruits (the seed-containing, mature ovary). ...
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Diets and Food Environments Today: Why We Eat the Way We Do
P.K. Newby
in Food and Nutrition: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What are the influencers and major drivers of eating behavior and food choices in today’s world?
For millions of years during the course of evolution, the human diet was driven ...
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Disability and Reproductive Politics
Rickie Solinger
in Reproductive Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What basic reproductive restrictions have been placed on women with disabilities in the past and today?
Historically, the medical community and general society considered disabled ...
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Do Advance Directives Protect Patient Autonomy?
Bonnie Steinbock and Paul T. Menzel
in Bioethics: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Advance directives for medical care are widely touted,
often written, and sometimes used. Their moral force stems from the same respect for patient
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The Environment and Reproductive Politics
Rickie Solinger
in Reproductive Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know®
How are environmental contaminants affecting reproductive health in the United States?
No one knows for sure the relationship between contaminants and reproduction, but there are ...
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Family Building, Reproductive Technologies, and Stem Cell Research
Rickie Solinger
in Reproductive Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What qualifies as a family today?
Traditionally, state governments and religious institutions made laws and rules about marriage and family that were obeyed by almost all ...
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Feminism and Reproductive Politics
Rickie Solinger
in Reproductive Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Why is feminism so important to reproductive politics, and vice versa, in the United States?
Over the course of American history, questions about female fertility have typically ...
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Fetuses
Rickie Solinger
in Reproductive Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Has the fetus always been the focus of anti-abortion concerns?
Anti-abortion campaigns in the illegal era focused on a number of issues, from protecting women against ...
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The Foundation of Nutrition: Carbohydrate, Fat, and Protein
P.K. Newby
in Food and Nutrition: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What are the different kinds of carbohydrates we eat?
Carbohydrates are so named because of their chemical composition, which includes carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. Globally, the ...
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Framing Today’s Food and Nutrition Issues
P.K. Newby
in Food and Nutrition: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What’s this book about?
The Oxford Living Dictionary defines “food” as “a nutritious substance that people or animals eat or drink or that plants absorb in order to maintain life ...
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The Future of Food and Nutrition
P.K. Newby
in Food and Nutrition: What Everyone Needs to Know®
How will we sustainably feed 10 billion people in 2050—and beyond?
Current estimates suggest that about 50% more food, feed, and biofuel is required to nourish about one-third more ...
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