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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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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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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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Pre-gestational diabetes and pregnancy

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Pregestational and gestational diabetes mellitus -- Diabetes in pregnancy: historical perspective -- Perinatal mortality and morbidity -- Offspring's complications -- Prenatal -- Spontaneous abortions -- Prenatal -- Congenital malformations -- Relationship to glycaemic control -- Haemoglobin A1c: abortions & malformations -- Caudal regression syndrome in DM -- Prenatal -- Macrosomia -- Perinatal -- Birth hypoxia -- Perinatal -- Birth trauma -- Shoulder dystocia -- Perinatal -- Caesarean section -- Neonatal -- Respiratory distress -- Neonatal -- Hypoglycaemia -- Neonatal -- Cardiac -- Type 1 vs. type 2 DM -- Congenital malformations -- Effect of obesity -- Late fetal death -- Management of diabetic pregnancies -- Medical management -- Oral hypoglycaemics -- Fetoplacental surveillance -- Timing of delivery -- Management of neonate of diabetic mother.…”
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Pre-gestational diabetes and pregnancy

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Pregestational and gestational diabetes mellitus -- Diabetes in pregnancy: historical perspective -- Perinatal mortality and morbidity -- Offspring's complications -- Prenatal -- Spontaneous abortions -- Prenatal -- Congenital malformations -- Relationship to glycaemic control -- Haemoglobin A1c: abortions & malformations -- Caudal regression syndrome in DM -- Prenatal -- Macrosomia -- Perinatal -- Birth hypoxia -- Perinatal -- Birth trauma -- Shoulder dystocia -- Perinatal -- Caesarean section -- Neonatal -- Respiratory distress -- Neonatal -- Hypoglycaemia -- Neonatal -- Cardiac -- Type 1 vs. type 2 DM -- Congenital malformations -- Effect of obesity -- Late fetal death -- Management of diabetic pregnancies -- Medical management -- Oral hypoglycaemics -- Fetoplacental surveillance -- Timing of delivery -- Management of neonate of diabetic mother.…”
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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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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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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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Global population : history, geopolitics, and life on earth / by Bashford, Alison, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Life and earth -- Confined in room : a spatial history of malthusianism -- War and peace : population, territory, and living space -- Density : universes with definite limits -- Migration : world population and the global color line -- Waste lands : sovereignty and the anticolonial history of world population -- Life on earth : ecology and the cosmo-politics of population -- Soil and food : agriculture and the fertility of the earth -- Sex : the geopolitics of birth control -- The species : human difference and global eugenics -- Food and freedom : a new world of plenty? …”
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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.…”

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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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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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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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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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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