Public Hostage, Public Ransom starts with the autobiographical story of William Bronston, the activist physician whose early professional California training steels him with a deep moral, professional and cultural bond to the huge 6000 person disabled population he encounters incarcerated in Willowbrook State School in Staten Island, NY, on whose behalf he daily battles to humanize and ultimately catalyze a Federal Class Action Lawsuit against the state to close the deathmaking institution.
To fight the epidemic known as childhood obesity, to empower our young children to not only learn how much they need to eat to keep their bodies running, but to allow them to make changes if they aren't comfortable in their own skin.
The difference that being female makes to the diagnosis, life and experiences of a person with an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) has largely gone unresearched and unreported until recently.
Like age, arthritis has a way of creeping up on you until one morning, that occasional stiffness in the knee or soreness in the hands turns into "e;That hurts!
In "e;Positive Aging"e;, the author explores the quest women must take to free themselves from the cultural trap of viewing mid-life as the beginning of the end.
If you are a male over fifty-five, slightly overweight, out of shape, and hooked on a diet of greasy foods, you are a prime candidate for coronary artery disease, CAD.
