RJA #7

RJA #7a: Evaluation of Sources–

-Book -

Title: Title What is SIDS? / National SIDS/Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Center. What is Sudden Infant Death Syndrome?
Edition: Rev. 2004.
Published: National SIDS/ Infant Death Resource Center, 2004.

This is a book that has a lot of information about SIDS. What I find interesting about this book is that it is mainly facts. I like to use factual information in my papers because numbers help prove points and can back you up on things you are trying to prove. I also in my paper am hoping to get a clear definition to what SIDS is. Considering that SIDS doesn't have a clear cause I want my readers to be able to understand SIDS as best they can. With this book there is a lot of information of what SIDS is as we know it so far. I mainly picked this book because of it's sturdy facts since a lot of the information comes from the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Center.

-Periodical Article-

Name of Author: Robert Wood Johnson
Title: Multiple risk factors existed in 78 percent of sudden infant death syndrome cases
Periodical: ScienceDaily. Retrieved February 22, 2010

When looking through periodical articles I wanted to make sure I was looking at a variety of information. In my paper I want to make sure and include many "causes" for SIDS. Although, there is no official cause of SIDS this article looks into some of the common factors of different cases of SIDS. This is important for my paper so that I can examine and compare and contrast the similarities and differences of babies that have died from SIDS. Again, helping to identify with what the cause of SIDS is and if it can be prevented. I liked this periodical article because several risk factors were dicussed that contributed to the cause of death in the babies. I also am not just going to go off of the information on statistics from one article I want to compare others to see what the numbers look like as a whole and to see if there is some agreement across the board to some definite causes.

-Reference Articles-

Title: Sudden infant death syndrome
Source: The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright © 2007, Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.

When it comes to getting precise information a good place to always look is an encyclopedia. That's why I chose this for my reference article. With this reference article there is information about the general facts and conclusions about SIDS. I would like to use this as something I compare to some of my other information to weed out some of the things I have found to be "if-e" and not true facts. I know that encyclopedias have true facts and I can trust what is in the content.

-Website-

Title: Low production of serotonin in the brainstem a likely cause for SIDS
Name of Author: Children's Hospital Boston
Date: February 4th 2010
Website: http://www.curingdeath.com/research/Low_production_of_serotonin_in_the_brainstem_a_likely_cause_for_SIDS.asp?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CuringDeath+%28Curing+Death+by+Curing+Aging%29

I found this website and I enjoyed it because it is by a doctor that has down a lot of research on SIDS. With this article I found it interesting because I agree with the fact that there is something underlying to why babies suddenly die. This will help my argument in the fact that I don't think that blankets and toys in the crib cause unexplained deaths. I am going to look into other information on this and other articles to support these findings.

RJA #7b: Field Research Suggestions–

http://carolpilk.blogspot.com/2010/02/rja-6c.html#comment-form

http://melindaatmetro.blogspot.com/2010/02/rja-6c-field-research-options.html#comment-form