Word: biologicizing
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These children have very different problems and prospects, but they all have one thing in common: their mothers repeatedly took crack cocaine, often in combination with other drugs, during pregnancy. That makes them part of a tragic generation of American youngsters -- a generation unfairly branded by some as "children of...
Just what direction the research will take is determined by the directors of the Institute's five centers--biologic research, clinical research and care, policy and education, epidemiology and biometry and international cooperation.
In one investigation, researchers from the U.S. and Sweden analyzed weight and height records from the Swedish Adoption/Twin Study of Aging. Reviewing data on 247 identical and 426 fraternal pairs of twins, the team found that siblings end up with similar body weights whether or not they are raised in...
This approach is rare, for people around the dying, reminded of their own mortality, use denying tactics themselves. They treat dying patients as objects of dread instead of as human beings "whose thoughts and preferences matter." Such behavior makes a "good death" impossible by failing to distinguish between survival, or...
These suggestions drew enthusiastic support from the American Academy of General Practice, which met in Boston last weekend to consider its own report on "the core content" of what it calls "family" rather than "primary" medicine. The academy's leaders urged its members to "divorce themselves from the present...