Word: infantalizes
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William C. Marra ’07 Guest predictor: President To combat declining use of the Women’s Center, Harvard will move the infant organization into the basement of the Fox. Attendance will skyrocket...
Variations of experiments like this one, examining infant attention, have been a standard tool of developmental psychology ever since the Swiss pioneer of the field, Jean Piaget, started experimenting on his children in the 1920s. Piaget's work led him to conclude that infants younger than 9 months have no innate knowledge of how the world works or any sense of "object permanence" (that people and things still exist even when they're not seen). Instead, babies must gradually construct this knowledge from experience. Piaget's "constructivist" theories were massively influential on postwar educators and psychologists, but over the past...
...abuse of Ashley's ?rights' and an affront to her ?dignity.' This is a mystery to me. Is there more dignity in having to hoist a full-grown body in harness and chains from bed to bath to wheelchair? Ashley will always have the mind of an infant, and now she will able to stay where she belongs-in the arms of the family that loves...
...that as a nation, we're also 110% fatter, and 19% more of us have no health insurance. Plus, healthiness varies dramatically by state. In the map below, each state's score is based on assessments of 12 health determinants, such as child poverty, and six outcomes, such as infant mortality. This year--as in 10 past years--Minnesota is No. 1. The question, the authors ask: Now that you know your rank, what will you do about...
...anesthesia for the baby. If she refuses, she would have to sign a waiver. Doctors who fail to follow the rules could face fines up to $250,000. "There is substantial evidence that by this point, unborn children draw away from surgical instruments in a manner which in an infant or an adult would be interpreted as a response to pain," the text of the bill states. "Congress finds that there is substantial evidence that the process of being killed in an abortion will cause the unborn child pain, even though you receive a pain-reducing drug or drugs...