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Wed for Their One Night Baby
by Karin BaineShock #1: their babyShock #2: his proposal!Pediatric nurse Emmy and consultant pediatrician Sam put their friendship on the line the night they just couldn&’t resist their long-standing desire anymore. The resulting baby bombshell has truly turned their world upside down! Emmy&’s turbulent childhood means she would do anything to ensure her baby&’s happiness. Still, she doesn&’t expect Sam to propose! Can Emmy risk a convenient marriage when all she wants is a real happily-ever-after with him? &“I love medical romance, especially when set in exotic locations. One Night With Her Italian Doc definitely delivered…. A wonderful escape for sure!&”-Goodreads&“Reunion with His Surgeon Princess a sweet and exciting royal romance story. Author Karin Baine has a spell-binding way with her writing. I could visualize the story as it unfolded on the pages. She also did a marvelous job of bringing these two characters together for their happy ever after despite their emotional baggage. Highly recommended for all readers of medical romance.&”-Goodreads
Wedding Date with the Army Doc
by Lynne MarshallIt started at a wedding... Since her recent lifesaving-and life-changing-operation, Charlotte Johnson has steered clear of romance...but brooding Jackson Hilstead is too delicious to resist! Surely some harmless flirting with the sexy army doc can't hurt? Charlotte knows Jackson has his own emotional battles to fight, but she believes they can be stronger together. So when she accepts his invitation to a family wedding, Charlotte hopes it's a sign that one day she'll be walking down the aisle...with Jackson by her side!
Wedding Date with the ER Doctor
by Sue MacKayIn Sue MacKay&’s latest Harlequin Medical Romance, a risk-taking emergency doctor brings her handsome colleague to a wedding, and soon they&’re sharing more than just an invitation… AN INVITATION…TO BE HER FAKE BOYFRIEND! As an emergency doctor on a rescue helicopter, Dr. Rosie Carter takes more risks than most, except when it comes to her heart—which she protects fiercely! But when her brother insists she bring a date to his wedding, Rosie&’s stunned when her friend and colleague Dr. Lucas Tanner offers to be her partner for the weekend. He's grieving the passing of his wife, so Rosie had thought Lucas was out of bounds. But will sharing a room—and a bed—open their eyes to another life for them both?From Harlequin Medical: Life and love in the world of modern medicine.
Wedding Roulette
by Leandra LoganThe weekly advice her elderly aunts dished out to the lovelorn had always made conservative Krista Mattson cringe, especially since it was her picture they used to advertise sexy "Simona Says." And when Michael Collins stormed into the newspaper office, demanding retribution for his fleeing fiancee who'd taken Simona's advice, Krista knew this time "Simona" had gone too far. In an effort to appease the ambitious businessman, Krista became the perfect bride-to-be and accompanied Michael to a Las Vegas convention — as sultry Simona! Before long, their trip to Sin City went from professional to passionate, and being in love was no longer an act. Would Michael accept that the real Krista wasn't a seductress after all, but a woman prepared to trust him with her heart?
Wedding at Sunday Creek
by Leah MartynEnglish doctor to Outback bride?Medical director Jack Cassidy doesn't expect a red carpet when he arrives at Sunday Creek's Outback hospital, but he's taken aback by English doctor Darcie Drummond's frosty reception!Darcie knows she needs to make up for their shaky start, but she's flustered by Jack's absurdly good looks and wild masculinity. Still recovering from her last relationship, she can't be tempted into another. But could this Australian doc be the man to soothe away Darcie's past hurts and help her love again?
Wednesday Is Indigo Blue: Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia
by Richard E. Cytowic David M. EaglemanHow the extraordinary multisensory phenomenon of synesthesia has changed our traditional view of the brain.A person with synesthesia might feel the flavor of food on her fingertips, sense the letter “J” as shimmering magenta or the number “5” as emerald green, hear and taste her husband's voice as buttery golden brown. Synesthetes rarely talk about their peculiar sensory gift—believing either that everyone else senses the world exactly as they do, or that no one else does. Yet synesthesia occurs in one in twenty people, and is even more common among artists. One famous synesthete was novelist Vladimir Nabokov, who insisted as a toddler that the colors on his wooden alphabet blocks were “all wrong.” His mother understood exactly what he meant because she, too, had synesthesia. Nabokov's son Dmitri, who recounts this tale in the afterword to this book, is also a synesthete—further illustrating how synesthesia runs in families. In Wednesday Is Indigo Blue, pioneering researcher Richard Cytowic and distinguished neuroscientist David Eagleman explain the neuroscience and genetics behind synesthesia's multisensory experiences. Because synesthesia contradicted existing theory, Cytowic spent twenty years persuading colleagues that it was a real—and important—brain phenomenon rather than a mere curiosity. Today scientists in fifteen countries are exploring synesthesia and how it is changing the traditional view of how the brain works. Cytowic and Eagleman argue that perception is already multisensory, though for most of us its multiple dimensions exist beyond the reach of consciousness. Reality, they point out, is more subjective than most people realize. No mere curiosity, synesthesia is a window on the mind and brain, highlighting the amazing differences in the way people see the world.
Wednesday's Child: Research into Women's Experience of Neglect and Abuse in Childhood and Adult Depression
by Patricia Moran Antonia BifulcoAs many as one in four women have suffered severe neglect or abuse in childhood. This doubles the likelihood of their suffering clinical depression in adult life. Based on twenty years of systematic research,Wednesday's Child examines why neglect and abuse occur and demonstrates how such negative experience in childhood often results in abusive adult relationships, low self-esteem and depression. Drawing on interviews with over 200 women, the authors show vividly what can be learned from the experience of adult survivors of abuse. Most importantly, Wednesday's Child assesses the factors which can reduce the later impact of such experience on both the children of today and the parents of tomorrow.
Wednesday’s Child: McGee's Case of Orphanage Girls Taken by Traffickers
by Douglass CarlWednesday's Child is the third novella of Carl Douglass's McGee series. It is a tale of "Wednesday's child is full of woe." Brigid O'Hanlon--age thirteen--is one of the "Wednesday's Children"--a foundling left on the doorstep of St. Anne's Orphanage in Red Hook, New York. One of the few days she and her girl-friends can count is the grand and city-wide heralded celebration of their thirteenth birthday. Harm befalls them, and McGee and Associates are called to help save them on a pro bono basis. The search transcends city, then country boundaries, and then on the high seas. The Human Trafficking division of the NYPD is called into the search after bodies are found in the pestilent Gowanus Canal near a semi-trailer containing the bodies of victims of a human trafficking network run by the Snakeheads. The hunt for the girls and for the clever and heartless monsters who killed their vulnerable captives descends into an underworld of CIs, Mafiosos, crooked Teamsters, and child molesters, presided over by the ephemeral devil, Sister Chi. The combined resources of McGee, the NYPD task force, the New Jersey State Police, the FBI, the U.S. Coast Guard, the U.S. Navy, the CIA, and the Catholics of NYC, and The MSS and the PSB of the Peoples Republic of China join in an around-the-world and around-the-clock manhunt for the rust bucket ship, the Golden Traveler, and the kidnappers. It promises to be very close and dangerous thing.
Weed Empire: How I Battled Gangsters, Investment Banks, and the Department of Justice to Create the Cannabis Industry in America
by Adam Bierman&“The cannabis industry will be talking about this book for a long time.&” —Forbes "An absolutely fascinating read from cover to cover . . . one of the most unusual and riveting contemporary memoirs ever penned." —Michael Dunford, Reviewer, Midwest Book Review From the cofounder of MedMen comes the unfiltered tale of the mainstreaming of an outlaw industry: the growers, dealers, lobbyists, tycoons, and titans of the industry that created corporate cannabis.Adam Bierman wasn&’t planning on selling weed—or developing a network of cannabis stores, or safeguarding his money in shoeboxes, or facing off with gangs in dark corners of parking lots, or taking on the public markets and justice system itself. But, of course, not everything goes according to plan. Weed Empire is an inside look at the story behind MedMen, America&’s first cannabis unicorn and the world&’s first globally recognized cannabis brand. It&’s the underdog story of how a kid from the suburbs entered the cannabis scene and later reimagined weed for the mainstream, jumping at an opportunity to shift the conversation about legalizing marijuana. It&’s also the tale of how a one-room studio dispensary eventually turned into a public company valued at more than $2 billion, led by a CEO with no college degree—with politicians, entertainment moguls, and Wall Street heavyweights on his team. An unconventional but intensely authentic memoir, Weed Empire is a cautionary tale of the high cost of ambition, documenting MedMen&’s decade-long rise as well as all the slog of passing cannabis legislation, and the exhausting battle to start a public company, bring a dream to the world, and hold a family—and himself—together through the madness.
Weed Rules: Blazing the Way to a Just and Joyful Marijuana Policy
by Jay WexlerWith full legalization seeming inevitable, it's time to shift the conversation—from whether recreational cannabis should be legalized to how. Weed Rules argues that it's time for states to abandon their "grudging tolerance" approach to legal weed and to embrace "careful exuberance." In this thorough and witty book, law professor Jay Wexler invites policy makers to responsibly embrace the enormous benefits of cannabis, including the joy and euphoria it brings to those who use it. The "grudging tolerance" approach has led to restrictions that are too strict in some cases—limiting how and where cannabis can be used, cultivated, marketed, and sold—and far too loose in others, allowing employers and police to discriminate against users. This book shows how focusing on joy and community can lead us to an equitable marijuana policy in which minority communities, most harmed by the war on drugs, play a leading role in the industry. Centering pleasure and fun as legitimate policy goals, Weed Rules puts forth specific policies to advocate for a more just, sensible, and joyous post-legalization society.
Weekend
by Andrew Neiderman Tania GrossingerIt all starts as a typical July Fourth weekend at the Congress, the internationally famous Catskill resort hotel. Thousands of vacationers, their pockets filled with cash and their minds on easy sex, begin to arrive from the city. But while the singles meet at the pool and other folks congregate at the bar, a time bomb is slowly ticking: an outbreak of cholera so devastating that the wildest holiday of the year quickly becomes a deadly nightmare.Along the way we meet:*Ellen Golden, recently widowed owner of the Congress, who fights to rescue an old family tradition from the hands of organized crime,*Sandy Golden, Ellen's thirteen-year-old daughter, who discovers her own budding sexuality in the midst of chaos,*Dr. Sid Bronstein, the man who discovers the menace but keeps silent to save his own skin,*Bruce Solomon, a young medical detective who is determined to find the cure at all costs,* Fern Rosen, the shy "single" who captures Bruce's love--when he least expects it,*Nick Martin, a smooth operator who wants to bring big-time gambling to the Congress, no matter what the opposition,*Melinda Kaplan, the nymphomaniac divorcee, taking sex wherever she can find it, and *Grace Kaplan, Melinda's disturbed son, acting out all of his adolescent fantasies.A medical disaster as well as a love story, Weekend by Tania Grossinger and Andrew Neiderman is a Fourth of July no reader will ever forget.
Weekend with the Best Man
by Leah MartynBest man to daddy! Nurse Lindsey Stewart knows that dancing with new, enigmatic Casualty doctor Dante Rossi is asking for trouble...but when he takes her hand at a wedding she's powerless to resist. As their night turns into a weekend she learns there's more to this charming best man than meets the eye. After returning to work, neither can escape their undeniable chemistry-even when trying to remain professional! Until Lindsey discovers she's pregnant, and realizes she might hold the key to healing Dante's damaged heart...
Weekends at Bellevue: Nine Years On The Night Shift At The Psych Er (Playaway Top Adult Picks B Ser.)
by Julie HollandJulie Holland thought she knew what crazy was. Then she came to Bellevue. New York City's Bellevue Hospital, the oldest public hospital in the United States, has a tradition of "serving the underserved" that dates back to 1736. For nine eventful years, Dr. Holland was the weekend physician in charge of Bellevue's psychiatric emergency room, a one-woman front line charged with assessing and treating some of the city's most vulnerable and troubled citizens, its forgotten and forsaken, and its criminally insane. Deciding who gets locked up and who gets talked down would be an awesome responsibility for most people. For Julie Holland, it was just another day at the office. In an absorbing memoir laced with humor, Holland provides an unvarnished look at life in the psych ER, recounting stories from her vast case files that are alternately terrifying, tragically comic, and profoundly moving: the serial killer, the naked man barking like a dog in Times Square, the schizophrenic begging for an injection of club soda to quiet the voices in his head, the subway conductor who watched a young woman pushed into the path of his train. As Holland comes to understand, the degree to which someone can lose his or her mind is infinite, and each patient's pain leaves a mark on her as well---as does the cancer battle of a fellow doctor who is both her best friend and her most trusted mentor. Writing with uncommon candor about her life both inside and outside the hospital, her professional struggles, personal relationships, and the therapy sessions that help her crack the hard shell she's formed to keep the pain at bay, Holland supplies not only a page-turner with all the fast-paced immediacy of a TV medical drama but also a fascinating glimpse into the inner lives of doctors who struggle to maintain perspective in a world where sanity is in the eye of the beholder.
Wege in die generalistische Pflegeausbildung: Gestalten, entwickeln, vorangehen
by Mechthild LöwensteinPädagogische Prozesse aktiv und kreativ gestalten! Dieses Buch richtet sich an Pädagog:innen, Praxisanleiter:innen und alle Akteure, die bei der Umsetzung des neuen Pflegeberufegesetzes beteiligt sind und die pädagogischen Prozesse in der generalistischen Pflegeausbildung aktiv, kreativ und wissenschaftlich fundiert mitgestalten wollen. Welche Anforderungen und Grenzen sind im gegenwärtigen Reformprozess gesetzt und wie sehen konkret die pädagogischen Perspektiven aus? Die erfahrene Autorin zeigt, wie fundamental wichtig ein professionelles Pflegeverständnis ist und wie kompetenzorientierte Lehr-Lernprozesse erfolgreich integriert werden. Denn die gesetzlichen Vorgaben bieten kreative Chancen zu weitreichenden Umgestaltungen in der Pflegeausbildung. Ein erprobtes und geeignetes Instrument ist das entwickelte Lernportfolio zur Förderung effektiven Lernens. Hier bekommen Sie Anregungen und wertvolle Impulse für relevante pflegepädagogische Themen der generalistischen Pflegeausbildung!
Wege zum neuen Gesundheitssystem - "Change by Design" oder "Change by Disaster"?: Transformationsprozesse nachhaltig gestalten
by Manfred Cassens Thomas StädterDieses Herausgeberwerk vereint die Vorträge und zusammengefassten Diskussionen der 8. Transfertagung "eHealth & Society 2023" zum Thema: Wege zum neuen Gesundheitssystem - "Change by Design" oder "Change by Disaster“?Alle politischen Lager sind sich seit vielen Jahren einig: Eine Reform des Gesundheitssystems muss her – schnellstmöglich. Und tiefgreifend muss diese Reform zudem sein. Dann jedoch scheiden sich bereits die Geister. Als zu komplex und unflexibel für einschneidende Veränderungen erscheint das deutsche Versorgungs- und Vorsorgesystem. In zehn Beiträgen werden die anstehenden Aufgaben für das deutsche Gesundheitssystem umrissen, Konfliktlinien wie Problemlagen diskutiert und Lösungsoptionen skizziert für:- die Finanzierung von Innovationen bei sinkenden Kapitalreserven,- datentechnische Standardisierungen und Interoperabilität bei der Umsetzung der Digitalisierung,- die Stärkung der sektorenübergreifenden Leistungskoordination,- die Reform der Krankenhausstruktur,- den Pakt für den öffentlichen Dienst.Der Handlungsdruck steigt – wird es den Akteuren des Gesundheitssystems gelingen, die anstehenden Aufgaben zu einem koordinierten, strukturierten und nachhaltigen Change by Design zu gestalten? Sie haben es in der Hand, nutzen Sie dabei auch die gewonnenen Erkenntnisse und gezeigten Handlungsoptionen dieses Buches!
Weighing the Evidence: How is Birthweight Determined?
by Nick SpencerRationalization is concerned with making the most effective use of the resources available. In many places where this process is taking place it is plagued with public opposition and misunderstanding. Hitherto rationalization in the acute care sector has primarily been concerned with closing sites closing beds moving beds between services and moving beds from one site to another. This book discusses the need for rationalization in the context of health service reforms and future strategy. It considers recent changes in the health service the case for rationalization health care needs the role of public relations the future of the acute care hospital site and facilities appraisal and the costs of rationalization. The text is essential reading for managers and clinicians involved in acute care services non-executive members of boards and trusts and students of health services management.
Weighing the Options: Criteria for Evaluating Weight-Management Programs
by Paul R. ThomasNearly one out of every three adults in America is obese and tens of millions of people in the United States are dieting at any one time. This has resulted in a weight-loss industry worth billions of dollars a year and growing. What are the long-term results of weight-loss programs? How can people sort through the many programs available and select one that is right for them? Weighing the Options strives to answer these questions. Despite widespread public concern about weight, few studies have examined the long-term results of weight-loss programs. One reason that evaluating obesity management is difficult is that no other treatment depends so much on an individual's own initiative and state of mind.Now, a distinguished group of experts assembled by the Institute of Medicine addresses this compelling issue. Weighing the Options presents criteria for evaluating treatment programs for obesity and explores what these criteria mean--to health care providers, program designers, researchers, and even overweight people seeking help.In presenting its criteria the authors offer a wealth of information about weight loss: how obesity is on the rise, what types of weight-loss programs are available, how to define obesity, how well we maintain weight loss, and what approaches and practices appear to be most successful.Information about weight-loss programs--their clients, staff qualifications, services, and success rates--necessary to make wise program choices is discussed in detail.The book examines how client demographics and characteristics--including health status, knowledge of weight-loss issues, and attitude toward weight and body image--affect which programs clients choose, how successful they are likely to be with their choices, and what this means for outcome measurement. Short- and long-term safety consequences of weight loss are discussed as well as clinical assessment of individual patients.The authors document the health risks of being overweight, summarizing data indicating that even a small weight loss reduces the risk of disease and depression and increases self-esteem. At the same time, weight loss has been associated with some poor outcomes, and the book discusses the implications for program evaluation.Prevention can be even more important than treatment. In Weighing the Options, programs for population groups, efforts targeted to specific groups at high risk for obesity, and prevention of further weight gain in obese individuals get special attention.This book provides detailed guidance on how the weight-loss industry can improve its programs to help people be more successful at long-term weight loss. And it provides consumers with tips on selecting a program that will improve their chances of permanently losing excess weight.
Weight Bearing Cone Beam Computed Tomography (WBCT) in the Foot and Ankle: A Scientific, Technical and Clinical Guide
by Scott Ellis Martinus Richter Francois Lintz Alexej Barg Arne Burssens Cesar de Cesar NettoThis scientific, technical and clinical guide to Weight Bearing Cone Beam Computed Tomography (WBCT), written by the board of the International WBCT Society, presents all of the relevant content to date on the development, implementation, interpretation and clinical application of WBCT for the foot and ankle. Part One describes the history of the development of, and need for, WBCT as an imaging option and a scientific overview of the procedure. Part Two is an exhaustive scientific background, comprised of 16 landmark studies, describing its advantages for selected foot and ankle injuries and deformities (both congenital and acquired). With this science as context, Part Three includes chapters on the technical aspects and necessary background for WBCT, introduces the different devices, and provides insight into the actual measurement possibilities, including the initial software solutions for automatic measurements. Current clinical applications via case material are illustrated in atlas-like fashion in the next chapter, and a final chapter on future developments explores further applications of WBCT, such as dynamic scans and measurements or hologram-like visualization.The first book publication of its kind on this exciting and developing imaging modality, Weight Bearing Cone Beam Computed Tomography (WBCT) in the Foot and Ankle will be an excellent resource for orthopedic and foot and ankle surgeons, radiologists, and allied medical professionals working in this clinical area.
Weight Bias in Health Education: Critical Perspectives for Pedagogy and Practice
by Heather A. Brown Nancy Ellis-OrdwayWeight stigma is so pervasive in our culture that it is often unnoticed, along with the harm that it causes. Health care is rife with anti-fat bias and discrimination against fat people, which compromises care and influences the training of new practitioners. This book explores how this happens and how we can change it. This interdisciplinary volume is grounded in a framework that challenges the dominant discourse that health in fat individuals must be improved through weight loss. The first part explores the negative impacts of bias, discrimination, and other harms by health care providers against fat individuals. The second part addresses how we can ‘fatten’ pedagogy for current and future health care providers, discussing how we can address anti-fat bias in education for health professionals and how alternative frameworks, such as Health at Every Size, can be successfully incorporated into training so that health outcomes for fat people improve. Examining what works and what fails in teaching health care providers to truly care for the health of fat individuals without further stigmatizing them or harming them, this book is for scholars and practitioners with an interest in fat studies and health education from a range of backgrounds, including medicine, nursing, social work, nutrition, physiotherapy, psychology, sociology, education and gender studies.
Weight Loss for Life: The Proven Plan for Success (A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book)
by Lawrence J. Cheskin Kimberly A. GudzuneThis is not a fad diet book. This is the most comprehensive, scientifically based program to lose weight and keep it off, with practical details about diet and nutrition, movement and motivation, medications, supplements, surgery, and more.In Weight Loss for Life, two experts from the Johns Hopkins Healthful Eating, Activity & Weight Program provide you with all of the information you need on your weight loss journey. They bring together leading experts in behavioral health, nutrition, exercise, and nursing to help you develop a plan that works best for you—and that's not focused on just restricting calories or certain foods. Anyone struggling with unwanted weight gain or obesity will find this program to be helpful, compassionate, and clear. A central feature of the program is a Personal Plan of Action to help you set up reachable goals, plan your meals, and make time for movement. All the recommendations are customizable based on your personal health and needs. You'll enjoy the interactive features, too, with surveys throughout asking you to reflect on your own eating habits as well as barriers to success. And unlike other works on the market, Weight Loss for Life covers it all: supplements, prescription medications, med spas, and surgical options. If you struggle, it can help you get back on track. Throughout, testimonials from others who have followed the program along with hundreds of photographs and drawings will help educate and keep you motivated along your weight loss journey. Weight Loss for Life is the guide to the science and art of achieving and maintaining a healthful weight.
Weight Management: State of the Science and Opportunities for Military Programs
by Subcommittee on Military Weight ManagementThe primary purpose of fitness and body composition standards in the U.S. Armed Forces has always been to select individuals best suited to the physical demands of military service, based on the assumption that proper body weight and composition supports good health, physical fitness, and appropriate military appearance. The current epidemic of overweight and obesity in the United States affects the military services. The pool of available recruits is reduced because of failure to meet body composition standards for entry into the services and a high percentage of individuals exceeding military weight-for-height standards at the time of entry into the service leave the military before completing their term of enlistment. To aid in developing strategies for prevention and remediation of overweight in military personnel, the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command requested the Committee on Military Nutrition Research to review the scientific evidence for: factors that influence body weight, optimal components of a weight loss and weight maintenance program, and the role of gender, age, and ethnicity in weight management.
Weight Matters for Young People: A Complete Guide to Weight, Eating and Fitness
by Rachel PrykeOfficial publication of Obesity Awareness Week 2006 If only weight didn't matter to young people! But it does - and, in reality, it should. So how can today's youngsters overcome the relentless hype to look like a cool stick insect and combat the enormous pressure from the food industry to eat vast quantities of junk? What can families do to help a teenager that has low self esteem or may even be struggling with an eating disorder? Weight Matters for Young People takes an in depth look at how young people can assume responsibility for their own health, ranging from the various factors that influence teenage decisions right through to practical nutrition. The TOP teen Health Plan assesses the strengths and weaknesses of current lifestyle, whilst the Food Frequency Framework solves family meal dilemmas. Common dieting regimes are assessed to see which are safe or worthwhile, there is a chapter on eating disorders and finally an A to Z of common weight-related conditions. Weight Matters for Young People is a complete reference book that will put young people confidently in charge of their own health. Health workers will find safe, evidence-based nutritional information plus answers to common weight-related queries and plenty of further resources.
Weight of Modernity
by Anna Davies Cathy Banwell Jane Dixon Dorothy BroomOver a half of adults in the US, Canada, Australia and numerous European countries are now overweight or obese, a proportion that has risen sharply in the past two decades. Dominant biomedical explanations focus on the energy equation - an imbalance between energy intake and expenditure - and remedies focus on motivating individuals to restore the balance by eating better and being more active, or - in extreme cases - surgical intervention. This book offers a perspective that sees increasing obesity as a social phenomenon as well as a public health problem. It contains detailed accounts of three generations of Australians' experiences of changing environments and the emergence of social trends such as increasing availability of convenience foods, the individualisation and commercialisation of leisure, car reliance, and busyness. Participants' narratives are interwoven with sociological and historical analyses of changes to show how contemporary Australians are experiencing and adapting to dramatic socio-cultural and environmental changes that are reshaping their lives and, in many cases, their bodies. The book demonstrates that obesity is an unintended consequence of economic development accompanied by profound socio-cultural changes, and by identifying the key developments the authors propose leverage points. While the research was conducted in Australia, the fundamental drivers of rapid weight gain are equally present in other modern, secular societies.
Weighted Network Analysis
by Steve HorvathHigh-throughput measurements of gene expression and genetic marker data facilitate systems biologic and systems genetic data analysis strategies. Gene co-expression networks have been used to study a variety of biological systems, bridging the gap from individual genes to biologically or clinically important emergent phenotypes.
Weighty Problems: Embodied Inequality at a Children’s Weight Loss Camp
by Laura BackstromMany parents, teachers, and doctors believe that childhood obesity is a social problem that needs to be solved. Yet, missing from debates over what caused the rise in childhood obesity and how to fix it are the children themselves. By investigating how contemporary cultural discourses of childhood obesity are experienced by children, Laura Backstrom illustrates how deeply fat stigma is internalized during the early socialization experiences of children. Weighty Problems details processes of embodied inequality: how the children came to recognize inequalities related to their body size, how they explained the causes of those differences, how they responded to micro-level injustices in their lives, and how their participation in a weight loss program impacted their developing self-image. The book finds that embodied inequality is constructed and negotiated through a number of interactional processes including resocialization, stigma management, social comparisons, and attribution.