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Obstetrics
The overriding goal of managing childbearing experience is the wellbeing of both the mother and the baby. The maternal and neonatal risks of 100...
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Asthma
Bronchial asthma is, as the name implies, a disease affecting the bronchial tubes. Asthma is an inflammation of the lining of your bronchial tubes....
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Abuse of Substances
Addiction to, dependency on, or abuse of drugs is on the rise at all levels of American society. Though parents are more inclined to be concerned...
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Legal, Fiscal, and Other Plights
Children, being human, get into scrapes. Today it seems easier than ever for adult children to stumble into difficulty.
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Seeing Social Worlds
We have argued that mainstream drug research begins by looking for and therefore seeing individuals whose psychological or social deficiencies...
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Seeing Defective Individuals
We set out to understand adolescent worlds. The research began by locating these worlds through participant observation conducted by fieldworkers who...
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How Adolescents Use Drugs
We have seen that the answers to the question of why adolescents use drugs vary in terms of the patterns of use; the reasons they themselves give are...
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Distributing and Understanding Drugs
In the analysis of why and how adolescents use drugs it is clear that they rely on an elaborate belief system about the immediate and long-term...
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Why Adolescents Avoid Drugs: Light Users and Non-users
The preceding chapters have established, if nothing else, the ubiquity of drugs in the world of those adolescents who use them. We have concentrated...
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Competing Explanations: Epidemiology, Politics, Social Worlds
Adolescent drug use scares adults. The spectres of addiction, psychosis, alienation and rebellion provoke dramatic responses: legislators enact laws...
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Families
In the last five chapters we have listened to adolescents talking primarily about the social worlds which they share with each other — as students,...
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Why do Adolescents Use Drugs?
Adult concern with adolescent drug use is focused on the questions of motivation and consequences. We have organized the analysis in this book in...
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Peer Pressure
The physical world pays little attention to the explanations of scientists. Quarks and solar systems do not change because they have heard what...
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A Methodology for Listening
In the following chapters we will allow 100 adolescents to speak for themselves. We will present several quotes from each of them and identify...
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The Future
We have pointed out several social conditions which together make drug use a convenient and reasonable component of the everyday lives of US...
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Dioxin Decisions
The picture I paint contrasts sharply with the popular depiction of dioxin as a scourge to human health. How can two views of the same thing differ...