Breastfeeding is a human bodily function that differs in practice across cultural and historical boundaries, yet is framed as “natural” and morally virtuous. Breastfeeding and the Pursuit of Happiness rejects the dichotomy of right versus wrong, exploring the historical, political, and symbolic roots of this sacrosanct belief in “breast is best” – from allusions to biblical milk and honey to contemporary claims of parenting and wellness experts. Within disparate contexts such as medieval Europe, eighteenth-century France, contemporary Indonesia, and the mommy blogosphere, Phyllis Rippey finds that infant feeding prescriptions often serve the interests of the powerful rather than meeting the needs of women, infants, and families. Upending some of our most cherished beliefs about the maternal breast, Rippey reveals the ways historical and contemporary debates over breast versus bottle feeding distract from the underlying issues of poverty, environmental destruction, and violence against women. Rippey balances science-based and historical analysis with the stories of lesbian mothers and trans fathers, Black and White breastfeeding advocates, and Indonesian mothers, among other mothers who express feelings of empowerment, pleasure, pain, and moral failure. At turns witty, heartbreaking, and intellectually compelling, Breastfeeding and the Pursuit of Happiness draws on Hannah Arendt, Black feminist thought, affect theory, the ethics of care, and theories of political humility to offer a new framework for valuing and affirming the human power of giving and receiving care, including through the breast.

As all of us earthly creations are both wired to seek pleasure and to avoid pain to help us survive, but humans are able to transcend both pleasure and pain in order to achieve their higher purpose. Pleasure draws us to our happiness goals but the virtues of heroism give us the discipline and sacrifice required for the challenges in the happiness pursuit. We run the good race because of the big picture meaning which each challenge holds for the whole life journey allowing us to prioritize and focus on our highest good. Our lifespan stages lead us to the joyful sacrifices of marriage and parenting into future generations as a form of this worldly transcendence of death. Many singles duplicate the role of parenting in their work as teachers, mentors, or spiritual leaders while some singles find their call to serve through religious communities. This book celebrates all calls to joyful service that expand the loving bonds of family to embrace all mankind.

Heroism in the Pursuit of Happiness: Power and love Through Life’s Peaks and Pits Heroism in the Pursuit of Happiness is a celebration of an all surpassing divine love that redeems our hybrid mix of good and evil, wisdom and foolishness. The idea of hybrids is to get the best and minimize the worst of any two fruits, veggies, cars and so on. The hybrid car can be battery-run when we run out of gas. We human hybrids “run the good race” until we run out of will power and must find the reserve battery of our “higher power”. We need spiritual heroes like St. Paul to reveal our human hybrid mix of foolishness and wisdom, weakness and strength. Paul had a strong will “to fight the good fight” against evil but was shocked to discover his moral weakness. “What I should do, I do not do. What I should not do, I do.” Who can save us when our will power falls short? How do we “let go and let God be God” as we move through the crises of our life span?

Rather than wield religion as a weapon or a ruse in irrational appeals, the book attempts to reimagine a shared American mythos and ethos, by reminding us of our shared stake in creating an America committed to the life of all peoples and species and to the full developments of our capabilities as an exercise of liberty.

As Jimmy becomes a young boy, he learns the value of happiness. The value of how something given so freely in the beginning turns difficult, hard to hold without questions of love and its contents. Just as Jimmy's story begins to unfold, he has an accident, falling to the concrete floor, and now suffers from a brain injury. His hopes and dreams become the challenging thoughts. His journey takes new direction with new focus. Jimmy learns his injury has delivered more than just recognition and medications. The pathway he now travels has new beginnings with unfavorable kindness and the strength of torment. Jimmy soon finds himself in a space of secrets and isolated doorways where injury encompasses happiness. Jimmy believes "injured happiness" is shared by many, although can his discovery relocate happiness to the vacant spaces that stand alone within him?

A new and updated version of this best-selling resource! Jones and Bartlett Publisher's 2011 Nurse's Drug Handbook is the most up-to-date, practical, and easy-to-use nursing drug reference! It provides: Accurate, timely facts on hundreds of drugs from abacavir sulfate to Zyvox; Concise, consistently formatted drug entries organized alphabetically; No-nonsense writing style that speaks your language in terms you use everyday; Index of all generic, trade, and alternate drug names for quick reference. It has all the vital information you need at your fingertips: Chemical and therapeutic classes, FDA pregnancy risk category and controlled substance schedule; Indications and dosages, as well as route, onset, peak, and duration information; Incompatibilities, contraindications; interactions with drugs, food, and activities, and adverse reactions; Nursing considerations, including key patient-teaching points; Vital features include mechanism-of-action illustrations showing how drugs at the cellular, tissue, or organ levels and dosage adjustments help individualize care for elderly patients, patients with renal impairment, and others with special needs; Warnings and precautions that keep you informed and alert.

In Mass Hysteria, Rebecca Kukla examines the present-day medical and cultural practices surrounding pregnancy, new motherhood, and infant feeding. In the late-eighteenth century, the configuration of the maternal body underwent a radical transformation and the two maternal bodies that emerged out of this transformation still govern our imagination and rituals surrounding pregnancy and lactation. Exploring the history and the current life of these two maternal bodies within medical institutions, popular culture, and politics, Kukla offers a critical assessment of the lived repercussions of these ideological figures and practices for contemporary women's and infants' health and well-being.