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Redesigning Humans: Choosing our genes, changing our future

Gregory Stock

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A Candid Look at Man's Future 5 out of 5 stars.
5 of 5 people found this review helpful.

Throughout the world, there are ongoing debates over whether the human genome should be tampered with. Legislation has already been passed prohibiting numerous variants of genetic engineering as it applies to humans. But in this book, Gregory Stock explains that we will eventually have the technology to change ourselves intrinsically, and that we will also use it. He strongly advises us to look toward the future and make decisions regarding how this newfound knowledge should be used, instead of simply whether it should be used.

Genetic engineering has the potential to cure nearly every disease on earth. For hereditary diseases, such as cystic fibrosis and sickle cell anemia, this is the only way they will ever be cured. There is much ongoing research into finding a cure for genetic diseases, and eventually those efforts will meet with success. Once this happens, parents could be screened for defective genes, and if they do have them, their children could be genetically engineered to not have them. It would be cruel to deny these parents the only option they have to bear a healthy child, and in this way, the engineering of the human genome will begin.

Once diseases begin to be cured through this method, a line will have to be drawn determining what is a disease and what must be lived with. Is high cholesterol worth curing? What about obesity, ADD, or nearsightedness? All of these have a strong genetic component, and could be significantly reduced through genetic engineering. Inevitably, different countries will have different laws regarding what is considered a disease.

Eventually, genetic engineering will extend into the realm of what isn't a disease, but which could be improved on. Attributes such as intelligence, life span, physical capabilities, and talents could all be under the control of prospective parents.

This book is a startling look at the near future of the human species, and whether you thing genetically engineered humans are a good idea or not, this book is worth reading. Dr. Stock does a superb job at approaching this subject from a neutral perspective, stating not what he hopes will happen, but which he believes will happen. He gives many other examples of what can be accomplished with genetic engineering as well as what has already been accomplished in animals. He also corrects many of the myths surrounding this technology, many which have come from popular science fiction. If you have any questions or doubts concerning genetic engineering, this is an excellent book to read.

Editorial Review:

A groundbreaking work, Redesigning Humans tackles the controversial subject of engineering the human germline -- the process of permanently altering the genetic code of an individual so that the changes are passed on to the offspring. Gregory Stock, an expert on the implications of recent advances in reproductive biology, has glimpsed the inevitable future of biomedical engineering. Within decades, Stock asserts, technological advances will bring meaningful changes to our offspring; this scientific revolution promises to fundamentally alter the human species. With recent findings presented in a new afterword, Stock's provocative assessment cuts through the debate to envision an age of radical biotechnological advancement and unprecedented human choice.

I.V. Therapy Made Incredibly Easy!

Springhouse

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This book is a MUST HAVE for Nursing Students! 5 out of 5 stars.
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I'm a Senior nursing student and this book is WONDERFUL!!! Although we learn a lot in nursing school, IV therapy is one thing that we all seem to have to learn "on the job". I was so confused until I found this book!!! It explains everything (and I mean EVERYTHING) in very easy to understand terms (probably good even for beginning nursing students). I have recommended it to all of my fellow nursing students, and many others find it as helpful as I have!

Great Reference book for all healthcare providers 5 out of 5 stars.
5 of 5 people found this review helpful.

Every healthcare profession from Paramedics,LPN's RN's and even Physicians will find this book helpful. The book is full of various methods of starting IV's and troubleshooting. The other reviews state the book is good for nurses without much IV experience, but the book is a nice way to review your skills and make changes to your daily practice of starting IV's.

Editorial Review:

Text includes memory joggers, illustrations, quick quizzes, cheat sheets, and more. Tips, charts, lists, and guidelines help the reader administer I.V. therapy. Previous edition: c1998. Softcover. DNLM: Infusions, Intravenous--Nurses' Instruction.

Unsung Lullabies: Understanding and Coping with Infertility

Janet Jaffe, David Diamond, Martha Diamond

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Unsung Lullabies: Understanding and Coping with Infertility 5 out of 5 stars.
9 of 9 people found this review helpful.

I can't say enough good things about this book. For several years,I have had problems mourning and moving past my infertility. This book helped me finally move on from the hurt and disappointment because it helped me realize that lots of other people feel the same pain and anger when they struggle with infertility. It made me realize that I am NORMAL and infertility is a devastating thing that should not be taken lightly. I feel so much better having read this book.

Editorial Review:

For people experiencing infertility, wanting a baby is a craving unlike any other. The intensity of their longing is matched only by the complexity of the emotional maze they must navigate. With insight and compassion, Drs. Janet Jaffe, Martha Diamond, and David Diamond-specialists in the field of Reproductive Psychology who have each experienced their own struggle with infertility-give couples the tools to:*Reduce their sense of helplessness and isolation*Identify their mates' coping styles to erase unfair expectations*Listen to their "unsung lullabies"--their conscious and unconscious dreams about having a family--to mourn the losses of infertility and move on.Ground-breaking, wise, and compassionate, Unsung Lullabies is a necessary companion for anyone coping with infertility.

Choosing Children: Genes, Disability, and Design (Uehiro Series in Practical Ethics)

Jonathan Glover

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Progress in genetic and reproductive technology now offers us the possibility of choosing what kinds of children we do and don't have. Should we welcome this power, or should we fear its implications? There is no ethical question more urgent than this: we may be at a turning-point in the history of humanity. The renowned moral philosopher and best-selling author Jonathan Glover shows us how we might try to answer this question, and other provoking and disturbing questions to which it leads.
Surely parents owe it to their children to give them the best life they can? Increasingly we are able to reduce the number of babies born with disabilities and disorders. But there is a powerful new challenge to conventional thinking about the desirability of doing so: this comes from the voices of those who have these conditions. They call into question the very definition of disability. How do we justify trying to avoid bringing people like them into being?
In 2002 a deaf couple used sperm donated by a friend with hereditary deafness to have a deaf baby: they took the view that deafness is not a disability, but a difference. Starting with the issues raised by this case, Jonathan Glover examines the emotive idea of "eugenics", and the ethics of attempting to enhance people, for non-medical reasons, by means of genetic choices. Should parents be free, not only to have children free from disabilities, but to choose, for instance, the colour of their eyes or hair? This is no longer a distant prospect, but an existing power which we cannot wish away. What impact will such interventions have, both on the individuals concerned and on society as a whole?
Should we try to make general improvements to the genetic make-up of human beings? Is there a central core of human nature with which we must not interfere?
This beautifully clear book is written for anyone who cares about the rights and wrongs of parents' choices for their children, anyone who is concerned about our human future. Glover handles these uncomfortable questions in a controversial but always humane and sympathetic manner.

Guide to the Dissection of the Dog

Howard Evans, Alexander Delahunta

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Editorial Review:

This practical guide facilitates a thorough dissection of the dog to learn basic mammalian structure and specific canine features. Emphasizing anatomical knowledge, each chapter presents self-contained guidance on the dissection of a specific body part, allowing the reader to perform these dissections in any sequence preferred. Descriptions are based on the dissection of embalmed, arterially injected adult dogs of mixed breeds, and the anatomical terms used in the book come from the Nomina Anatmica Veterinaria.

• Content is organized by specific body part to give readers the ability to work in any sequence.
• An introductory chapter explains commonly used terms in anatomy in great detail. It also discusses the moral implications of dissecting dogs for canine gross anatomy, as well as the procedures and guidelines used in dissection.
• A list of figures and tables with page numbers is included in the front of the book.
• A list of references is provided in the back of the book to provide opportunities for further study.

• New CAT scans are provided to show internal anatomical features that can only be seen by this method.
• More than 300 illustrations - including new and updated drawings - depict each dissection procedure, step-by-step.
• Updated content includes recommendations from individuals in the global veterinary community.

Workbook for Sectional Anatomy for Imaging Professionals

Lorrie L. Kelley, Connie Petersen

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This workbook uses an integrated approach to learning sectional anatomy and applying it to diagnostic imaging. It facilitates comprehension, learning, and retention of the material presented in Kelley's Sectional Anatomy for Imaging Professionals, 2nd Edition. In addition to fill-in-the-blank, matching, multiple-choice, true/false, puzzles, fill-in-the-table, and short-answer questions, this new edition includes over 250 illustrations from the main text for labeling practice. Three post tests cover neurologic, body, and extremity content, offering additional opportunities for readers to test their comprehension.

• Chapter objectives provide lists of important concepts that readers should be expected to master by the end of the chapter.
• A variety of engaging activities assist in retention of material, such as matching, multiple-choice, short answer, true/false, fill in the blank, fill in the table, crossword puzzles, and labeling exercises.
• Multiple-choice post tests review material from groups of chapters for an additional assessment.

• Memory learning aids such as mnemonics are included, allowing readers to focus more of their attention on applications of concepts rather than memorization.
• More cross-referenced images and anatomy maps are added, specifically related to labeling exercises.
• Additional exercises reinforce the relationship of specific structures to surrounding anatomy.
• Updated material corresponds with updates to the main text.

From First Kicks to First Steps : Nurturing Your Baby's Development from Pregnancy Through the First Year of Life

Alan Greene, Alan Greene

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The best book on pregnancy and the first year of your baby! Look no furthur. 5 out of 5 stars.
22 of 23 people found this review helpful.

We're expecting our third child and I picked up this book because I liked the title. I figured almost two years worth of information in one book would be nice since we already kind of know about preganacy and the baby's first year. I wouldn't have to read too much with my busy schedule and maybe get one or two good tips I didn't get before. Was I wrong!

This book is not thin, total 317 pages. And yet, it reads so easy and fast (even considering my first language is not English). As I was reading this book, I was amazed how much information this book is packed with! This book covers not only the generic facts on how your baby grows, but also suggests what you can do as parent(s). It also has many wonderful photos.

Dr. Greene covers physical stuff such as nutrition, but also covers how you act and think may affect your baby. He also covers in detail how the baby develops - very informative and I had to read several passages to my husband. His respect and love for the life also can be felt throughout the book which also increased my own respect, awe, wonder, and love for our third baby.

I love to read and I've skimmed through many books on pregnancy, but this one is the best one and I am reading this thoroughly. This is like an all the best books on pregnancy and first year combined in one!

Editorial Review:

Innovative ways parents can nurture their child's development even before birth

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Most expectant parents can't wait to get to know the mysterious little person who will be arriving. Now parents can find out what's really going on in there and start nurturing their baby's development during pregnancy with the help of From First Kicks to First Steps.

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Beautifully written by a pioneering pediatrician, this groundbreaking book focuses on the transition between pregnancy and the first year to help parents give their baby the very best start in life. Dr. Alan Greene answers such common parental concerns as:

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• Do babies dream before birth? .
• What can parents do during pregnancy to help their babies later in life? .
• Can babies become better sleepers even before they're born? .
• Does taking fluoride help or hurt? .
• And much more! .

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Sex, Science, and Stem Cells

Diana DeGette

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In August 2001, President George W. Bush announced with fanfare that federal funds would be made available to scientists conducting research on human embryonic stem cell lines—with restrictions. Reading his words, not his lips, was Congresswoman Diana DeGette of Colorado’s First Congressional District, and what she read was this: a ban. “As a practical matter,” scientists could no longer pursue such work “in any lab that had received any federal funding, at any time, for any reason. That one declaration severely constrained stem-cell research in this country.”

 

In Sex, Science, and Stem Cells, Congress’s leading advocate of stem-cell research presents a blistering indictment of the politicization of science—and sex—by the Bush administration, the Republican leadership, and the religious right. Addressing not only stem-cell research but also birth control, HIV/AIDS awareness campaigns, abortion, and sex education, Congresswoman DeGette takes the Bush White House and its fundamentalist allies to task for subverting any real discussion of human sexuality and reproduction.

 

DeGette writes from experience—and hard-earned frustration. During fifteen years in office, her fight for sound public policy for ethical, cutting-edge scientific research has consistently been foiled. Pulling no punches in her scrutiny of a Republican leadership that has long shirked matters relating even remotely to human sexuality, she concludes that many of America’s elected officials are simply too blinded by religious dogma to think rationally about sex. In Sex, Science, and Stem Cells, she dares to do what they can’t, or won’t—opening the door to responsible, fact-based legislation going forward.

Before You Were Born

Jennifer Davis, Laura Cornell

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It's the mystery of mysteries-what's going on inside a pregnant woman's belly? That's what Jennifer Davis's older children wanted to know while she was expecting the younger. So to explain, she wrote BEFORE YOU WERE BORN, now with 102,000 copies in print, a joyful lift-the-flap book that tells the parallel story of mother and baby during the nine months of pregnancy.

Illustrated with full-color whimsy by Laura Cornell, whose delightful work is familiar to readers of Jamie Lee Curtis's Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born and When I Was Little, BEFORE YOU WERE BORN is a month-by-month countdown written in rhyming verse.

Each page shows what's happening to the mother on the outside and then, under the flap, in the mother's belly to the baby on the inside. Children learn how Mommy is feeling and how the baby is developing, about hiccups, kicks, and umbilical cords, a first heartbeat, and the contractions that mark the beginning of labor.

For expectant mothers and curious little kids, and especially for kids with siblings on the way, it is an interactive storybook that delivers delight and information and reassurance, too.

Clinical Gynecologic Oncology

Philip J. Disaia, William T. Creasman, Philip J. Disiaia

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Excellent reference textbook for GynOnc 5 out of 5 stars.
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This is a fairly comprehensive reference text on Gynecologic Oncology. In addition to the standard fare - clinical management of neoplasms of the female reproductive tract - it includes chapters on basic science (genetics, immunology, epidemiology and statistics), principles and complications of chemotherapy, palliative care and minimally invasive surgery. It also includes appendices on staging, screening, radiation therapy, blood transfusion and nutritional support.

The layout is pretty, with lavish illustrations and the book is very easy on the eyes. The text, for the most part, flows. The comprehensive bibliography for each chapter is indexed by chapter header (very handy for preparing a good lecture).

Though the book is not an atlas, it does dwell on operative indications and planning (e.g. the Rutledge classification of radical hysterectomies, the merits and flaws of different conduits for urinary diversion, the FIGO recommendations for surgical staging of ovarian cancer) - but you will also need an operative atlas to supplement it.

All in all, a comprehensive and yet reader-friendly reference. If you are an Ob&Gyn resident, or a starting GynOnc fellow, you'll probably derive the most benefit from this book.

Editorial Review:

University of California, Irvine. Practical clinical reference for obstetrics and gynecology residents and practitioners. Halftone illustrations, some line drawn with color highlighting. Previous edition: c1993. DNLM: Genital Neoplasms, Female.