We rely on environmental health scientists to document the presence of chemicals where we live, work, and play and to provide an empirical basis for public policy. In the last decades of the 20th century, environmental health scientists began to shift their focus deep within the human body, and to the molecular level, in order to investigate gene-environment interactions. In <i>Exposed Science</i>, Sara Shostak analyzes the rise of g ...
We are all just a little bit plastic. Traces of bisphenol A or BPA, a chemical used in plastics production, are widely detected in our bodies and environment. Is this chemical, and its presence in the human body, safe? What is meant by safety? Who defines it, and according to what information? <i>Is It Safe?</i> narrates how the meaning of the safety of industrial chemicals has been historically produced by breakthroughs in environme ...
The politics and science of health and disease remain contested terrain among scientists, health practitioners, policy makers, industry, communities, and the public. Stakeholders in disputes about illnesses or conditions disagree over their fundamental causes as well as how they should be treated and prevented. This thought-provoking book crosses disciplinary boundaries by engaging with both public health policy and social science, asserting tha ...
Gerade unterwegs ist es schwer, zuckerfrei zu essen, weil in Kantinen, Restaurants und Schnellimbissen meist mit dem ungesunden Geschmacksverstarker gekocht wird. Meal Prep hei?t darum das Zauberwort! Mit ein wenig Planung haben Sie so immer etwas Kostliches dabei, das dem Korper genau das gibt, was er braucht. ...
Emma Hansen’s blog post sharing her grief about her son’s stillbirth went viral with thousands of people sharing the post as well as their own experiences with stillbirth. Although an estimated 1 in 4 pregnancies end in loss, and 1 in 125 end in a stillbirth, there are few books about the experience, and it is rarely talked about out loud. Stillbirth is isolating, and this memoir can help those who have ex ...
Многие думают о сне как о вынужденной паузе между одним делом и другим. Как будто это какая-то досадная помеха, замедляющая нашу жизнь.
Доктор Ханс-Гюнтер Веес, психотерапевт и сомнолог, уверен: эти мысли ошибочны. Сон – это не роскошь, а жизненно необходимое действие, которое способно сохранить нам память, дать источник жизненной энергии и защитить от депрессии. Не говоря уже о том, что стоит нам поспать получше, как мы перестаем походить на ...
