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With critically acclaimed titles in history, science, higher education, health and wellness, humanities, classics, and public health, the Books Division publishes 150 new books each year and maintains a backlist in excess of 3,000 titles. With warehouses on three continents, worldwide sales representation, and a robust digital publishing program, the Books Division connects Hopkins authors to scholars, experts, and educational and research institutions around the world.
An American History of Risk, Technology, and Consequence
Between 1965 and 1987, the cesarean section rate in the United States rose precipitously'from 4.5 percent to 25 percent of births. By 2009, one in three births was by cesarean, a far higher number than the 5-10% rate that the World Health Organization suggests is optimal. While physicians largely avoided cesareans through the mid-twentieth ......
An American History of Risk, Technology, and Consequence
Between 1965 and 1987, the cesarean section rate in the United States rose precipitously'from 4.5 percent to 25 percent of births. By 2009, one in three births was by cesarean, a far higher number than the 5GÇô10% rate that the World Health Organization suggests is optimal. While physicians largely avoided cesareans through the mid-twentieth ......
Cesarean section is often seen as an unnecessary medical intervention or even as a personal failure for a woman. Though one in four babies born in the United States and Europe comes into the world with the help of surgery, this option is often feared by expectant mothers. In Cesarean Section: Understanding and Celebrating Your Baby's Birth, ......
Cesarean section is often seen as an unnecessary medical intervention or even as a personal failure for a woman. Though one in four babies born in the United States and Europe comes into the world with the help of surgery, this option is often feared by expectant mothers. In Cesarean Section: Understanding and Celebrating Your Baby's Birth, ......
In this important and timely collection, some of the best minds in gerontology and bioethics - including Nancy Dubler, Rick Moody, Andrew Achenbaum, Robert Hudson, and Robert Binstock - explore the ethical, social, and political challenges of an aging society. A unique combination of disciplines and perspectives - from economics to nursing, ......
A chronological account of nine decades of antislavery activity in Maryland, Delaware, and Virginia, culminating in the Civil War. Challenging slavery could entail negotiating for freedom by manumission; grasping freedom by flight or insurrection; or uniting with external allies in the American Revolution, the War of 1812, or the Civil War. Free ......
A Writer's Field Notebook for Travelers, Bloggers, Essayists, Memoirists, Novelists, Journalists, Adventurers, Naturalists, Sketchers, and Other Note-Takers and Recorders of Life
The goal of the writer is to live with the keenness of the foreigner. To experience, wide-eyed, the sensations aroused and the events offered up by a peculiar surround and then to evoke them so brightly on the page that the reader, too, experiences the foreigner's frisson. A time-honored way this is accomplished is through the keeping of a ......
A groundbreaking new history of global health from one of the greatest leaders in the field. In Change Is Possible, public health legend William H. Foege and five coauthors chronicle the failures and successes of global health through the modern age, including the massive impacts of colonialism, religious groups, philanthropies, politics, NGOs, ......
