Langwith, Jacqueline

Explains what Sudden Infant Death Syndrome is, how to reduce its risk, the controversies surrounding different explanations for the disease, and personal experiences with it.

Presents differing viewpoints on the issues of cancer.

Provides clear, careful explanations that offer readers and researchers insight into fetal alcohol syndrome, what causes this condition, how people live with the condition and the latest information about treatment and prevention.

A collection of controversial essays that debate issues associated with death and dying including doctor-assisted suicide, hospice care, and belief in an afterlife.

Provides information about MRSA, covers symptoms, causes and effects, treatments, cures and medical advances.

Provides essays concerning stem cells including therapeutic potential of stem cell treatment, moral issues, and government regulations.

This book is a collection of articles in which authors debate whether research cloning is ethical, whether induced pluripotent stem cell research is morally superior to research cloning, and whether it is ethical to pay women to donate eggs for research cloning.

This book discusses childhood obesity, controversies over genes and stress contributing to childhood obesity, and personal experiences of people who suffered childhood obesity.

Authors present differing opinions on whether pandemic preparedness is a public health matter, whether pandemic vaccines should be distributed among different countries, and whether a flu outbreak should be labeled a pandemic.

This book discusses autoimmune diseases, a family of related diseases characterized by an immune system that turns on itself, including why immune systems become dysfunctional, controversies over the rise in autoimmune diseases, and personal narratives from people living with autoimmune diseases.