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Addressing the sleep patterns of children as well as those of other family members, this book examines the link between sleep and family processes, cultural attitudes towards sleep, and normative sleep disturbances in children.  Sleep and Development is the first volume to integrate knowledge and approaches from numerous disciplines to focus on the...

This book to fully examines the web of legal and ethical questions that arise when criminal prosecutions are mounted against parents whose children die as a result of religion-based medical neglect. It explores efforts to balance judicial protections for the religious liberty of faith-healers against the state's obligation to the rights of...

On October 29th 1953 in Lund, Sweden, Inge Edler, cardiologist, and Hellmuth        Hertz, physicist, performed the first successful Ultrasoundcardiogram (UCG), later        renamed Echocardiogram. A few weeks later, on December 16th, the neurosurgeon Lars        Leksell diagnosed an intracranial bleeding in a 16-month-old boy using the...

A comprehensive reference to legal professional privilege in both contentious and non-contentious situations, this book also address privilege against self-incrimination. Providing detailed coverage of the nature of privilege, how it arises, how it is lost, and its limits, this second edition builds on the success of the first to provide an...

With some thirteen million women now between the ages of 45 and 54, menopause has become a major health issue, and the demand for information on this once taboo topic has increased dramatically. This is the first book to explain the biology of menopause in straightforward, everyday terms, offering women a clear picture of what happens to their...