Introduction: Birth

Introduction: the birth of sexuality

The aim of this book is to trace Blake’s relationship to a pro-sex culture that seemed under threat at the end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth. Although I expect ‘Blake and sexuality’ to seem a familiar topic, ‘Blake and bourgeois politeness’ may appear to some readers to be either counter-intuitive or plain misguided. If this is so, it is the result of decades of ...

Introduction: birth defects surveillance in the United States.

State programs for the surveillance of birth defects now provide data on the vast majority of the nation’s births. The number of state programs has increased dramatically in the late 1990s with the passage of the Birth Defects Prevention Act of 1998 and the subsequent funding of 26 cooperative agreements between states and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). As of the end of 2...

Introduction: birth defect surveillance in the United States.

Introduction: brain and placenta, birth and behavior, health and disease

Michael L. Power1 and Jay Schulkin2 1 Department of Conservation Biology, Nutrition Laboratory, Smithsonian’s National Zoological Park, Washington, DC, USA; Department of Research, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists 2 Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Georgetown University, School of Medicine; Clinical Neuroendocrinology Branch, National Institute of Mental Health; and D...

National Poverty Center Working Paper Series Did the Introduction of Food Stamps Affect Birth Outcomes in California? Did the Introduction of Food Stamps Affect Birth Outcomes in California?

Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the view of the National Poverty Center or any sponsoring agency. Foundation for financial support. The California Department of Health graciously provided the data on infant health, but we are solely responsible for the analysis and conclusions drawn from...