 |  Life-Span Development: A Topical Approach John W. Santrock
Biological Process, Physical Development, and Health Biological Beginnings
Web LinksEvolutionary Psychology
(http://www.psych.ucsb.edu/research/cep/primer.html)
Leda Cosmides and John Tooby examine in-depth the idea of evolutionary psychology, including psychology's past and present, adaptive problems, nature and nurture, and many other evolutionary psychology topics. |
| | | Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology
(http://cogweb.english.ucsb.edu/Abstracts/Crawford_Krebs_98.html)
Provides abstracts of chapters written by a number of leading evolutionary psychology experts; topics include mate choice, issue in evolutionary psychology and culture, moral behavior, family violence, evolutionary cognitive psychology, and many other topics. |
| | | Landmarks in the History of Genetics
(http://cogweb.english.ucsb.edu/EP/DNA_history.html)
Examine key events in the history of genetics beginning with Darwin's and Mendel's discoveries in the mid-nineteenth century and continuing through the 1980s. |
| | | Heredity Resources
(http://www.ornl.gov/hgmis/links.html)
Extensive links to web sites with information about heredity, including U.S. and international research programs. |
| | | Genetic Journals and News
(http://www.pedgen.med.uni-muenchen.de/medgen/journals.html)
Links to a number of journals with information about genetics, such as Nature, Journal of Genetic Counseling, and others, as well as news articles about genetics are provided. |
| | | Behavior Genetics
(http://www.faseb.org/genetics/ashg/policy/pol-28.htm)
This article, written by a number of leading behavior geneticists, describes what the field of behavior genetics is like, traditional methods, and innovative methods that recently have been developed. |
| | | Twin Research
(http://www.multiplebirth.com/)
Provides information about a number of journal articles that present the results of twin research. |
| | | Human Genome Project
(http://www.ornl.gov./TechResources/Human_Genome/home.html)
Explore many aspects of this fascinating, important project, which has the goal of mapping all of the genes in human DNA. |
| | | Genetic Disorders
(http://health.yahoo.com/health/Diseases_and_Conditions/Disease_Feed_Data/Genetics)
Links provided to many web sites with information about a wide range of genetic disorders |
| | | Prenatal Testing and Down Syndrome
(http://www.ds-health.com/prenatal.htm)
Explore position statements by various organizations, bioethics, general prenatal testing, and adoption |
| | | Genetic Counseling
(http://www.pitt.edu/~edugene/resource/)
Includes educating and teaching resources, books, genetics and health news, journals, prenatal counseling, pediatric counseling, and other aspects of genetic counseling. |
| | | Genes and Parenting
(http://www.edweek.com/ew/vol-18/04parent.h18)
This article evaluates the controversial book, The Nurture Assumption, written by Judith Harris that questions parents' influence and promotes the importance of heredity in children's development. |
| | | The Visible Embryo
(http://www.mhhe.com/socscience/devel/kid-c/sant6/stud_olc/chap05webres.html)
Stunning photos of the embryo at different points in prenatal development. |
| | | The Trimesters
(http://www.familyweb.com/pregnancy/natal/natpt103.html)
Explore the trimesters of prenatal development on a month by month basis. |
| | | Amniocentesis
(http://www.aomc.org/amnio.html)
Read about what amniocentesis is, its risks, the procedure, and many other aspects of amniocentesis. |
| | | Obstetric Ultrasound
(http://www.ob-ultrasound.net/)
Explore many dimensions of obstetric ultrasound, such as why and when it is used in pregnancy. Images and videos of the fetus using obstetric ultrasound are included. |
| | | Chronic Villus Testing
(http://www.aomc.org/cvs.html)
Examine what this involves and alternatives to the procedure. |
| | | Health and Prenatal Development
(http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/obgyn.html)
This web site has extensive connections to other sites that have information about health and prenatal development. |
| | | Exploring Teratology
(http://www.teratology.org/members/memblink.htm)
Teratogens are examined along with a number of pregnancy complications. |
| | | High Risk Situations
(http://www.childbirth.org/articles/pregnancy/pcomp.html)
Examines pain, diabetes, low birthweight, viruses, genetics, proterm labor, and other high risk situations. |
| | | Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
(http://www.worldprofit.com/mafas.htm)
Describes the nature of fetal alcohol syndrome and provides links to sites with information about the syndrome. |
| | | Smoking and Pregnancy
(http://pregnancy.miningco.com/health/pregnancy/library/weekly/aa111998.htm)
Examines the negative effects of smoking during pregnancy, secondhand smoke, and strategies for quitting smoking. |
| | | Pregnancy and HIV
(http://www.hivpositive.com/f-Women/9-Pregnant/9-PregMenu.html)
Discusses basic ideas about pregnancy and HIV, family planning decisions, testing and counseling, drug treatments, and other related topics. |
| | | Nutrition and Pregnancy
(http://www.moonlily.com/obc/nutrition.html)
Provides guidelines for prenatal nutrition, resources, and related topics. |
| | | Exercise in Pregnancy
(http://www.childbirth.org/articles/pregnancy/exercise.html)
Read about various aspects of fitness and nutrition during pregnancy. |
| | | Later Life Pregnancy
(http://preconception.com/resources/articles/pglater.htm)
Learn more about the factors involved in becoming pregnant at 30, 35, and 40 years of age. |
| | | Reproductive Health Links
(http://www.childbirth.org/articles/reprolinks.html)
Read about men's health and women's health related to various aspects of reproduction. |
| | | Childbirth Strategies
(http://www.childbirth.org/articles/labor/choices.html)
Study various options in childbirth, including perineal massage, water birth, epidurals, birthing rooms, doula, homebirth, and many other childbirth topics. |
| | | Childbirth Settings and Attendants
(http://pregnancy.miningco.com/health/pregnancy/msub13.htm?pid=2839&cob=home)
Provides information about such topics as birth centers, homebirth, midwives, medical technology, and others. |
| | | Midwifery
(http://www.moonlily.com/obc/)
Links to information about a wide range of midwifery topics. |
| | | Doula
(http://www.childbirth.org/doula123.html)
Explore what a doula is, where they can be located, research statistics about using doulas, and related topics. |
| | | Fathers and Childbirth
(http://pregnancy.about.com/health/pregnancy/cs/forfathersonly/index_2.htm)
A father's comments about childbirth, fathers and postpartum depression, diaper changing, "pregnant" fathers, and what it means to be a father are examined. |
| | | Siblings and Childbirth
(http://www.childbirthclass.com/siblings.htm)
Read about birth order, children at birth, introducing a new baby to the family, preparing a toddler for the birth of a baby, and sibling rivalry. |
| | | Lamaze
(www.lamaze.com)
Learn more about what Lamaze involves, what is taught in a lamaze class, and links to other sites with information about lamaze. |
| | | Labor and Birth Resources
(http://www.childbirth.org/articles/labor.html)
What to expect regarding labor, how to tell if it is really happening, timing contractions, pain relief in labor, labor complications, and other related ideas are examined. |
| | | Cesarean Childbirth
(http://www.childbirth.org/section/section.html)
Study what cesarean childbirth involves, why cesarean rates have increased, benefits of this approach, risks of this approach, and psychological effects. |
| | | Neonatal Research
(http://www.nichd.nih.gov/cochraneneonatal/)
Extensive information about a variety of topics in neonatal research, including preterm infants, feeding, neonatal infection, massage therapy. non-nutritive sucking, pain, and other topics. |
| | | Preterm Infants
(http://kingproductions.com/babylink4.htm)
Popular and medical summaries about preterm infants are presented on this web site. |
| | | Low-Birthweight Infants
(http://www.futureofchildren.org/LBW/02LBWANA.htm)
Study about many different aspects of low-birthweight infants on this web site. which provides popular and medical summaries on this topic on a year-by-year basis. |
| | | Exploring Low Birthweight
(http://www.futureofchildren.org/lbw/index.htm)
This entire issue of The Future of Children was devoted to low birthweight. You can read all of the articles on line at this site, including analysis and recommendations, costs, preventing low birth weight, neonatal intensive care, and many more related topics. |
| | | Touch Research Institute
(http://www.miami.edu/touch-research/home.html)
Find out more about the benefits of massage therapy with high risk infants. Touchpoints, a quarterly newsletter published by the Touch Research Institute, can be read on this web site. |
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