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Beyond Parenting Advice: How Science Should Guide Your Decisions on Pregnancy and Child-Rearing de Michael S. Kramer

Beyond Parenting Advice: How Science Should Guide Your Decisions on Pregnancy and Child-Rearing

Autor Michael S. Kramer
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 oct 2021

Ne-a atras atenția abordarea riguroasă din Beyond Parenting Advice, un volum care se distanțează de tonul prescriptiv al ghidurilor clasice. Scenariile clinice și dilemele cotidiene — de la siguranța medicamentelor în sarcină până la gestionarea timpului petrecut în fața ecranelor în adolescență — sunt analizate prin prisma medicinei bazate pe dovezi. Michael S. Kramer nu își propune să dicteze comportamente, ci să ofere instrumentele necesare pentru ca părinții să evalueze riscurile și beneficiile în funcție de propriile valori și resurse financiare.

Subliniem structura logică a lucrării, care debutează cu două capitole fundamentale despre sinteza dovezilor științifice, esențiale pentru înțelegerea vocabularului tehnic utilizat ulterior. Volumul progresează cronologic, de la perioada prenatală la adolescență, acoperind teme critice precum nutriția maternă, vaccinarea, somnul sugarului și metodele de disciplină. Pe linia clinică a lucrării The Informed Parent, dar cu un accent mult mai pronunțat pe rigoarea biostatistică, Beyond Parenting Advice transformă cititorul dintr-un receptor pasiv de sfaturi într-un evaluator critic de date.

Apreciem modul în care Michael S. Kramer utilizează experiența acumulată în lucrări precum Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics pentru a demitiza recomandările contradictorii. Dacă în Believe It or Not autorul explora originile culturale ale credințelor despre sănătate, aici se concentrează strict pe validitatea studiilor clinice. Rezultatul este un manual de referință, organizat ca o enciclopedie, care permite consultarea rapidă a oricărui capitol fără a parcurge textul liniar.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783030747640
ISBN-10: 3030747646
Pagini: 230
Ilustrații: XVII, 259 p. 13 illus. in color.
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2021
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Copernicus
Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland

De ce să citești această carte

Această carte se adresează părinților care caută certitudine științifică în locul opiniilor subiective. Cititorul câștigă capacitatea de a descifra studiile medicale și de a lua decizii informate despre sănătatea familiei, evitând „ascultarea oarbă” de autorități sau bloguri. Este o investiție în gândirea critică aplicată pediatriei și obstetricii, oferind un fundament solid pentru gestionarea controverselor medicale actuale.

Despre autor

Michael S. Kramer este un renumit specialist în epidemiologie și biostatistică, cu o carieră dedicată cercetării clinice. Expertiza sa este reflectată în lucrări fundamentale precum Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, unde a pus bazele metodologice pentru interpretarea studiilor medicale. În Beyond Parenting Advice, autorul adaptează rigoarea academică pentru publicul larg, menținând standardele înalte de analiză specifice publicațiilor sub egida Springer International Publishing. Lucrările sale sunt recunoscute pentru capacitatea de a sintetiza date complexe în informații aplicabile și verificate.

Cuprins

Section I: Science and Parenting.- Does a "Good" Parent Need Science?.- Summing Up: Synthesizing the Scientific Evidence.- Section II: Pregnancy.- How Much Should You Weigh?.- What Should You Eat?.- Can You Work and Exercise During Pregnancy?.- Will Smoking, Alcohol, and Drugs Harm Your Baby?.- What Medications Are Safe During Pregnancy?.- Vaccines in Pregnancy: Are They Safe?.- Section II: Infancy and Toddlerhood.- Infant/Child Feeding.- Maternal Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Medications During Lactation.- Vaccines.- Sleep.- Mental/Emotional Stimulation.- Section III: Childhood and Adolescence.- Toilet Training.- Discipline.- Diet and Nutrition.- Screen Time.- Physical Activity.

Notă biografică

Dr Michael Kramer completed most of his early schooling in Miami, Florida.  He left Miami to pursue his undergraduate studies at the University of Chicago, then moved to Yale University, where he completed medical school, a residency in pediatrics, and a research fellowship in clinical epidemiology.  Following his education and professional training, he moved north to accept a faculty position at the McGill University Faculty of Medicine in Montreal, Canada, where he spent his entire academic career of 42 years before his recent retirement as Professor Emeritus.  He practiced clinical pediatrics for nearly 25 years, but most of his career has been devoted to research and teaching.
Dr Kramer has published over 500 scientific articles and has won numerous national and international awards for his research.  He has served as a member of expert committees of the World Health Organization (WHO), the U.S. Institute of Medicine, and the Council of Canadian Academies.  He helped establish the Canadian Perinatal Surveillance System in 1995 and from 2003 to 2011 was Scientific Director of the Institute of Human Development, Child and Youth Health at the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.  In 2011, he was elected to Fellowship in the Royal Society of Canada.  Dr Kramer’s systematic review of the scientific evidence on the optimal duration of exclusive breastfeeding led directly to new infant feeding recommendations by WHO in 2001.  His research on preterm birth helped draw attention to the role of labor induction and elective cesarean delivery as drivers of the rise in preterm birth from the 1980s to the early 2000s.  That research contributed to obstetric guidelines to restrict provider-initiated early delivery, which have helped reverse that trend.  Dr. Kramer was recently cited as among the most impactful 0.01% of the world’s researchers across all scientific fields.
Dr Kramer is married and has three children and five grandchildren.  He plays violin and is an avid chamber musician.  He also enjoys a variety of outdoor activities, including cycling, hiking, tennis, and skiing.

Textul de pe ultima copertă

This book provides pregnant women and new parents with evidence-based information on pregnancy and parenting. Most parenting books advise pregnant women or new parents what to do and, at best, defend that advice by citing recommendations from highly selected “experts” or equally selective “studies.” Some parents prefer an advice book, but an increasing number do not trust the advice they receive unless they are convinced of its scientific backing. Dr. Kramer does not tell pregnant women or new parents what they should or should not do. Instead, he focuses on controversial decision choices for which recommendations and practices differ substantially. He systematically reviews and synthesizes the available scientific evidence bearing on those choices, summarizes the strengths and weaknesses of that evidence, and translates the summaries in a way that encourages parents to make their own informed decisions. He summarizes the risks and benefits of different decision options, as well as the degree of certainty around them. The risks and benefits then need to be valued by the individual parent and balanced against the effort and financial costs incurred by the decision.
Beyond Parenting Advice does not cover every conceivable topic relevant to pregnancy, infancy, and childhood. Instead, it focuses on key controversial areas with abundant but conflicting advice and information. The book’s contents are organized into four sections: an initial section comprising two introductory chapters and one section each devoted to topics concerning pregnancy, infancy/toddlerhood, and childhood/adolescence. Each topic is limited to one chapter. The two introductory chapters are short but dense. They are essential, however, to understand the scientific concepts and vocabulary used in the evidence review of each topic area. After reading the two initial chapters, the rest of the book can actually be used like an encyclopedia. In other words, the reader should be able to read and understand any later chapter in the book, or even a short section from any chapter. Despite the chronological order of pregnancy and the aging child, the topic chapters in sections 2-4 could have been written, and can be read, in any order.  An initial Reference Tools section provides a glossary and reproduces a diagram and two tables that define unfamiliar words and concepts.
Armed with the information provided in this book, different parents will make different decisions. But those decisions will be informed decisions—not blind obedience to a book, blog, health provider, friend, family, or public health authority. Moreover, the skills that parents acquire in reading this book will help them throughout their lives in critically evaluating new information relevant to health, science, and technology.