In The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down‚ Anne Fadiman narrates the story of Lia‚ a Hmong girl suffering from epilepsy who was surrounded by challenges due to conflicting viewpoints of her parents and her health care providers. For the Hmong people‚ epileptic seizures are viewed as a positive trait; those people who suffered from seizures are attributed to be a “twix neeb”‚ or “a person with a healing spirit” (Fadiman‚ 1997‚ pg. 21). Lia’s parents—Foau and Nao Kao (the Lees)—considered her condition
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Chapter 9: The Voyage Through the Life Span Learning Outcomes Explain prenatal development and the role that sex hormones play. Explain the physical‚ cognitive‚ moral‚ social‚ and emotional development of children. Learning Outcomes Explain the physical‚ cognitive‚ moral‚ social and emotional development of adolescents. Explain the features of emerging adulthood. Explain the physical‚ cognitive‚ moral‚ social‚ and emotional development of adults. Prenatal Development Prenatal Development
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health and development risks for the developing fetus. Each year an estimated 400‚000-440‚000 infants (10-11% of all births) are affected by prenatal alcohol or illicit drug exposure (alcohol and drug). Almost all drugs are known to pass through the placenta and have some effect on the fetus. Prenatal exposure to drugs and alcohol has the potential to cause a wide spectrum of physical‚ emotional‚ and developmental problems for these infants. Little is documented about the long-term outcome of
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Psychology Chapter 3 outline Helen Sternberg A. Genes: Our Biological Blueprint a. Chromosomes- threadlike structures made of DNA molecules that contain the genes b. DNA- a complex molecule containing the genetic information that makes up the chromosomes. c. Genes- the biochemical units of heredity that make up the chromosomes; a segment of DNA capable of synthesizing a protein d. Genome- the complete instructions for making and organism‚ consisting of all the genetic material in its chromosomes
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Teratogens and their effects on pre-natal development In this essay we will look into what teratogens are. The different types of teratogens‚ and how much of a role they play on the pre-natal development‚ and the foetus. Also how the teratogens that impacts us in the womb‚ can also affect our bodies and our minds for the rest of our natural lives. We shall also discuss all the different stages of pre-natal development‚ from the conception‚ to the birth‚ and all the different factors in the growth
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I.Introduction Chances are you didn’t even know you were pregnant or had just found out you wereexpecting when you received the shattering news that there is no visible developingembryo on the ultrasound. You are probably feeling sad and confused. As you take timeto understand what this means‚ also take time to grieve as you would for any loss. Andremember you are not alone.A blighted ovum (also known as “anembryonic pregnancy”) happens when a fertilizedegg attaches itself to the uterine wall‚ but
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Gestational Diabetes: This type of diabetes affects women during pregnancy. During pregnancy‚ the placenta produces increased levels of other hormones. This affects how the body makes insulin during pregnancy; these hormones also increase blood glucose levels which causes gestational diabetes. Many patients of this type of diabetes can control and prevent it with proper exercise and diet. However‚ some of them would need to take medication that controls blood glucose. Type 1 Diabetes: This type
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between 3 and 6 pounds in those first 10 days. But what do you have to do to attain that weight loss? First what is hcG and how does it work? It is a natural human hormone called human chorionic gonadotropin‚ which is produced during pregnancy by the placenta and helps to support the fertilized egg in the uterus and prevent loss of the fetus. Doctors give the hormone by injection to help some women with infertility problems get pregnant. It is also given to some teenage boys whose testicles have not moved
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effects were observed in rats or hamsters exposed to B(a)P via inhalation. Following ingestion‚ myelotoxicity was observed in poor affinity Ah-receptor mice but not in high affinity mice. Hepatotoxicity was also reported. Benzo(a)pyrene can cross the placenta and was found to cause adverse developmental and reproductive effects in
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there is a clear division of social class in ‘Juno’. The MacGuffs are part of the lower middle class while the Lorings are upper middle class. The MagGuffs house is cluttered‚ untidy and a jumbled mess of various paraphernalia. Driving a old‚ battered Previa to the Loring house in “Glacial Valley” we see the
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