Editorial: To Those Who Dedicate Their Lives

Assessment of families who have substance abuse issues: those who maltreat their infants and toddlers and those who do not.

Although an association exists among risk factors of age of child, substance use and child maltreatment, less is known about the differences between substance abusing families who maltreat their children and substance abusing families who do not maltreat their children. The relationship among substance use and maltreatment needs to be further explored to identify specific assessment techniques ...

Filicide: Mental Illness in Those Who Kill Their Children

BACKGROUND Most child victims of homicide are killed by a parent or step-parent. This large population study provides a contemporary and detailed description of filicide perpetrators. We examined the relationship between filicide and mental illness at the time of the offence, and care received from mental health services in the past. METHOD All filicide and filicide-suicide cases in England a...

Beauty and the Lives of Those Who Are Beautiful Are Topics with Broad Appeal

People magazine has circulation of over 3.5 million copies, more than The New Yorker and Newsweek combined. This book caters to this widespread interest in good looks while injecting economics into the analysis of the topic. Daniel Hamermesh has written half a dozen papers on the relationship between beauty and economic outcomes and these articles are the backbone of the book, which is organize...

Mending the Torn Fabric: For Those Who Grieve and Those Who Want to Help Them

Supporting Those Who Go to Fight Ebola

1 Stanford Law School, Stanford, California, United States of America, 2 Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America, 3 Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, 4 Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Ma...