Expecting Better
Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom is Wrong and What You Really Need to Know
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
13 August 2018
Summary
A groundbreaking guide to pregnancy: empowers women with the facts and allows them to make their own decisions. FREAKANOMICS meets WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU’RE EXPECTING.
Award-winning Emily Oster debunks myths about pregnancy to empower women while they’re expecting.Pregnant women are often treated as if they were children, given long lists of items to avoid - alcohol, caffeine, sushi - without any real explanation from their doctors about why. They hear frigh…Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781409177920 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1409177920 |
| Author: | Emily Oster |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Orion Spring |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 13 August 2018 |
| Weight: | 250g |
| Dimensions: | 200mm x 137mm x 21mm |
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EXPECTING BETTER will be a revelation for curious mothers-to-be whose doctors fail to lay out the pros and cons of that morning latte, let alone discuss real science - NEW YORK TIMES
Emily Oster struck a blow for common sense and freedom when she published her ground breaking book EXPECTING BETTER. In it she demolishes the nonsensical shibboleths and politically correct nostrums that have dogged pregnant women for so long … her book should be required reading for pregnant women everywhere - DAILY EXPRESSEmily Oster’s] book has done something important…indubitably important for pregnant women, but vital, too, for everyone else - GUARDIANAbout The Author
Emily Oster
Emily Oster is an associate professor of economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. She was a speaker at the 2007 TED conference and her work has been featured in The NEW YORK TIMES The WALL STREET JOURNAL, FORBES, and ESQUIRE. Oster is married to economist Jesse Shapiro and is also the daughter of two economists. She has one child, Penelope.
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