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Preaching eugenics religious leaders and the American eugenics movement / by Rosen, Christine

Table of Contents: “…Fervent charity -- Certifying eugenic purity in the churches -- Protestant promoters and Jewish eugenics -- Eugenicists discover Jesus -- Sterilization, birth control, and the Catholic confrontation with eugenics -- Twilight converts.…”
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The endocrinology of human life history transitions

Table of Contents: “…Contents: The energy allocation model of life history evolution -- Quantitative variation in energy allocation to reproduction -- Endocrine control of qualitative, state transitions in human life history -- Three example transitions: postpartum resumption of ovarian function, puberty, birth.…”
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A view from the East black cultural nationalism and education in New York City / by Konadu, Kwasi

Table of Contents: “…Ujima: context and community control -- Nia: the birth of the East organization -- Ujamaa: enterprises of the East -- Kujichagulia: Uhuru Sasa Shule (freedom now school) -- Kuumba: the International African Arts Festival -- Imani: the challenge of continuity and the East legacy -- Epilogue: the East family at present.…”
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Evolution and medicine from the perspective of an evolutionary biologist /

Table of Contents: “…Contents: How we are mismatched to modernity -- Birth control and cancer risk -- Impact of early-life events on late-life obesity and diabetes -- Hygiene and autoimmune disease -- Evolutionary conflicts that produce reproductive problems -- Evolutionary technologies used in medicine -- The evolutionary principles and mechanisms underpinning these examples.…”
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Christian Hebraism in the Reformation era (1500-1660) authors, books, and the transmission of Jewish learning / by Burnett, Stephen G.

Table of Contents: “…Birth of a Christian Hebrew reading public -- Hebraist authors and their supporters: centers, peripheries, and the growth of an academic Hebrew culture -- Hebraist authors and the mediation of Jewish scholarship -- Judaica libraries: imagined and real -- The Christian Hebrew book market: printers and booksellers -- Press controls and the Hebraist discourse in Reformation Europe.…”
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In Contempt : Nineteenth-Century Women, Law, and Literature / by Kalsem, Kristin, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Narrative advocacy, outlaw texts, and nineteenth-century Portias -- A novel approach to feminist jurisprudence : narrating the gothic reality of coverture -- Legislative histories and literary herstories : infanticide, bastardy, and the "lewd woman" -- Birth control on trial : law, literature, and libel -- Sitting in judgment : a cross-examination of women, law, and empire -- Appealing women : late-century publication of private wrongs.…”
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The right kind of revolution modernization, development, and U.S. Foreign Policy from the Cold War to the present and U.S. foreign policy from the Cold War to the present / by Latham, Michael E.

Table of Contents: “…Setting the foundations : imperial ideals, global war, and decolonization -- Take-off : modernization and Cold War America -- Nationalist encounters : Nehru's India, Nasser's Egypt, and Nkrumah's Ghana -- Technocratic faith : from birth control to the green revolution -- Counterinsurgency and repression : Guatemala, South Vietnam, and Iran -- Modernization under fire : alternative paradigms, sustainable development, and the neoliberal turn -- The ghosts of modernization : from Cold War victory to Afghanistan and Iraq.…”
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Matters of choice Puerto Rican women's struggle for reproductive freedom / by López, Iris Ofelia

Table of Contents: “…The globalization of sterilization -- The birth control movement in Puerto Rico -- Gender awareness across generations -- Cultural continuities and urban change -- The Velez family: poverty, the cancer scare, and hysterectomies -- The Robles family: social change and gender struggle -- The Gomez family: under the knife again-reversing la operación -- The Morales and Rivera families: tough love and sterile choices -- Reproductive rights and an integral model of reproductive freedom -- Ideologies and inequities in the health care system -- Toward an integral model of reproductive freedom.…”
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Case studies in pharmacy ethics by Veatch, Robert M.

Table of Contents: “…-- Benefiting the patient and others : the duty to do good and avoid harm -- Justice : the allocation of health resources -- Autonomy -- Veracity : dealing honestly with patients -- Fidelity : promise-keeping and confidentiality -- Avoidance of killing -- Abortion, sterilization, and contraception -- Genetics, birth, and the biological revolution -- Mental health and behavior control -- Formularies and drug distribution systems -- Experimentation on human subjects -- Consent and the right to refuse treatment -- Death and dying.…”
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Intimate Japan : Ethnographies of Closeness and Conflict /

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Fertility and Jewish law feminist perspectives on orthodox responsa literature / by Irshai, Ronit

Table of Contents: “…"Be fruitful and multiply" -- Chapt. 2. Birth control and family planning -- Chapt. 3. Halakhic rulings on abortion: a historical survey from the rabbinic to the modern period -- Chapt. 4. …”
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A springboard to victory Shandong Province and Chinese communist military and financial strength, 1937-1945 / by Lai, Sherman Xiaogang

Table of Contents: “…The birth of the CCP military-fiscal state in Shandong -- Moving towards confrontation -- Escalation and the CCP's financial framework -- Institutions of economic control -- Pre-Pearl Harbor policy changes -- From the strategies of confrontation to Time-killing -- Perseverance -- Financial pressure, Xu Muqiao, and salt -- Turning point and encroachments -- Accessing the enemy's resources for post-war rivalry -- The campaign to reduce rents and interest rates -- Glossary -- Documents of the CCP central authorities -- Mao Zedong -- Authorities in Shandong -- Documents on economic affairs in wartime Shandong -- Archival materials -- Memoirs, collected works, and scholarly works -- English language sources.…”
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Shah Abbas the ruthless king who became an Iranian legend / by Blow, David

Table of Contents: “…Shah Abbas's inheritance : the birth of a Shi'i state -- A turbulent childhood and the seizure of power -- Abbas takes control -- The recovery of Khurasan from the Uzbeks -- English adventurers at the service of Shah Abbas -- Maintaining the offensive : Khurasan, the Persian Gulf, and a challenge to the Ottomans -- Abbas expels the Ottomans -- The search for European allies -- Pressure on the Gulf, mass deportations, and the murder of a son -- An Anglo-Iranian victory : the capture of Hormuz -- Final triumphs : the capture of Qandahar and Baghdad -- A conflict of envoys -- The English envoys and the death of Abbas -- Abbas, the man and the king -- The court of Shah Abbas -- The throne and mosque alliance -- The city that was half the world -- The merchant king -- Shah Abbas and the arts -- The later Safavids -- Conclusion.…”
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Global population : history, geopolitics, and life on earth / by Bashford, Alison, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…-- Life and death : the biopolitical solution to a geopolitical problem -- Universal rights? Population control and the powers of reproductive freedom -- Conclusion: Population in the space age.…”
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Health law : cases, materials, and problems / by Furrow, Barry R., Greaney, Thomas L., 1948-, Johnson, Sandra H., Jost, Timothy S., Schwartz, Robert L., 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Cost, quality, access, and choice -- Quality control regulation : licensing health care professionals -- Quality control regulation of health care institutions -- The professional-patient relationship -- Liability of health care professionals -- Liability of health care institutions -- Health care cost and access : the policy context -- Duties to treat -- Private health insurance and managed care : liability and state and federal regulation -- Public health care financing programs : medicare and medicaid -- Professional relationships in health care enterprises -- The structure of the health care enterprise -- Fraud and abuse -- Antitrust -- Reproduction and birth -- Legal issues in human genetics -- Organ transplantation and the determination of death -- Life and death decisions -- Medically assisted dying -- Regulation of research involving human subjects.…”

The church and the land by McNabb, Vincent, 1868-1943

Table of Contents: “…Thomas Aquinas on town planning -- A tale of two cities -- The problem of unemployment -- A challenge to modern industrial methods -- The decay of dancing -- The economics of a riot -- The economics of the exodus -- The end of the wage system -- Do it ourselves -- The British association and the wage system -- The incubus of industrialism -- Looking towards the east -- The modern town and birth control -- Nazareth measures -- Nature and unemployment -- The new industrial charter -- A grammar of unemployment -- Authority and property -- The arrival of a fact -- Rights of the parent -- Agricultural mass production -- A window in Wisbech -- Wisdom at Cardiff -- The widowed land -- Souls and the land -- The social need of flying the occasions of sin -- Is it socialism? …”
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Uterine fibroids the complete guide / by Stewart, Elizabeth A., M.D

Table of Contents: “…-- When fibroids come back -- Surgical treatment -- Surgery inside the uterus: hysteroscopic myomectomy, endometrial ablation, and vaginal myomectomy -- Laparoscopic myomectomy and myolysis -- Abdominal myomectomy -- Uterine artery embolization -- Focused ultrasound surgery and other thermoablative therapies -- Hysterectomy -- Medical treatment -- Traditional hormonal therapies: birth control pills and progestin -- GnRH agonists, add-back therapies, and GnRH antagonists -- Innovative medical strategies for treating uterine fibroids -- Other factors, other conditions -- Genetics of fibroids -- Pregnancy, infertility, and miscarriage -- Adenomyosis and endometrial polyps -- Uterine cancers -- Fibroid-like conditions -- Alternative and complementary therapies -- What can we do about fibroids?…”
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New topics in eye research

Table of Contents: “…Rosenstein -- Eye tracking controlled biofeedback for orthoptic diagnosis and fusion therapy / C. …”
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Neuroscience in science fiction films / by Packer, Sharon

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Iron man, "extremis" and analysis -- Neuroscience fiction film in post-psychoanalytic society -- Movies and the mind (and the rebirth of the brain) -- The legacy of 19th century literature -- Automatons, androids, replicants and robocops -- Human-ape brain exchanges, Darwinian debates and the "monkey gland man" -- Sputnik, space aliens and brains from outer space -- Science fiction in social problems films -- Brain drains, brain chips and brain machines -- Flashbacks, flash-forwards and flash drives -- Memory, mentation and medication: before birth and after Alzheimer's -- Dream scenes: from silent cinema to Salvador Dali to CGI -- Video games, virtual reality and "reality testing" -- Drugs, dystopias and utopias -- Computers, consciousness and control -- Conclusion: Hive minds, herds and Jung's collective unconscious.…”
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Avery's neonatology : pathophysiology & management of the newborn /

Table of Contents: “…Revenis and Lauren A. Johnson-Robbins -- Control of breathing : development, apnea of prematurity, apparent life-threatening events, sudden infant death syndrome / Mark W. …”
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