Origins: How the Nine Months Before Birth Shape the Rest of Our Lives by Annie M

Description: Origins by Annie Murphy Paul Could it be that many of our individual characteristics are influenced by the conditions we encountered before birth? Thats the claim of an exciting and provocative field known as fetal origins, which offers a bold new view of pregnancy as a crucial staging ground for our health, ability, and well-being throughout life. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description What makes us the way we are? Some say its the genes we inherit at conception. Others are sure its the environment we experience in childhood. But could it be that many of our individual characteristics--our health, our intelligence, our temperaments--are influenced by the conditions we encountered before birth? What makes us the way we are? Some say its the genes we inherit at conception. Others are sure its the environment we experience in childhood. But could it be that many of our individual characteristics--our health, our intelligence, our temperaments--are influenced by the conditions we encountered before birth? Thats the claim of an exciting and provocative field known as fetal origins. Over the past twenty years, scientists have been developing a radically new understanding of our very earliest experiences and how they exert lasting effects on us from infancy well into adulthood. Their research offers a bold new view of pregnancy as a crucial staging ground for our health, ability, and well-being throughout life. Author and journalist Annie Murphy Paul ventures into the laboratories of fetal researchers, interviews experts from around the world, and delves into the rich history of ideas about how were shaped before birth. She discovers dramatic stories: how individuals gestated during the Nazi siege of Holland in World War II are still feeling its consequences decades later; how pregnant women who experienced the 9/11 attacks passed their trauma on to their offspring in the womb; how a lab accident led to the discovery of a common household chemical that can harm the developing fetus; how the study of a century-old flu pandemic reveals the high personal and societal costs of poor prenatal experience. Origins also brings to light astonishing scientific findings: how a single exposure to an environmental toxin may produce damage that is passed on to multiple generations; how conditions as varied as diabetes, heart disease, and mental illness may get their start in utero; why the womb is medicines latest target for the promotion of lifelong health, from preventing cancer to reducing obesity. The fetus is not an inert being, but an active and dynamic creature, responding and adapting as it readies itself for life in the particular world it will enter. The pregnant woman is not merely a source of potential harm to her fetus, as she is so often reminded, but a source of influence on her future child that is far more powerful and positive than we ever knew. And pregnancy is not a nine-month wait for the big event of birth, but a momentous period unto itself, a cradle of individual strength and wellness and a crucible of public health and social equality. With the intimacy of a personal memoir and the sweep of a scientific revolution, Origins presents a stunning new vision of our beginnings that will change the way you think about yourself, your children, and human nature itself. Author Biography Annie Murphy Paul is a magazine journalist and book author who writes about the biological and social sciences. Born in Philadelphia, she graduated from Yale University and from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. A former senior editor at Psychology Today magazine, she was awarded the Rosalynn Carter Fellowship for Mental Health Journalism. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the New York Times Book Review, Slate, Discover, Health, O: The Oprah Magazine, and many other publications. She is the author of Origins: How the Nine Months Before Birth Shape the Rest of Our Lives and The Cult of Personality: How Personality Tests Are Leading Us to Miseducate Our Children, Mismanage Our Companies, and Misunderstand Ourselves. Review "Informative and wise...Structuring her exploration of the subject around the nine months of her own (second) pregnancy, she provides a balanced, common-sense view of an emerging field of uncertain science." -Jerome Groopman, New York Times Book Review Review Quote "What goes on during pregnancy is a scientific puzzle as mysterious and fascinating as what goes on inside an atom. InOrigins, Annie Murphy Paul probes the murky realm in which our futures as human beings are forged. She combines in-depth reporting on cutting-edge research with a personal memoir of her own pregnancy and the anxieties and insights it produced. The result is an important, elegant piece of science writing."--Carl Zimmer, author ofSoul MadeFleshThe Tangled Bank: An Introduction to Evolution Details ISBN074329663X Author Annie Murphy Paul Short Title ORIGINS Language English ISBN-10 074329663X ISBN-13 9780743296632 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2011 Publication Date 2011-07-05 Subtitle How the Nine Months Before Birth Shape the Rest of Our Lives Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2011-07-05 NZ Release Date 2011-07-05 US Release Date 2011-07-05 UK Release Date 2011-07-05 Pages 320 Publisher Simon & Schuster Imprint Simon & Schuster DEWEY 618.32075 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:43667028;

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