Gynecology category: 1201 books

**“**The Hormone Myth is a bracing, accurate breath of fresh air. It turns conventional wisdom about hormones on its head, and provides a far more liberating view of women’s health than what we’ve all been taught.” —**Christiane Northrup, MD, author of **Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom​ “Is...

Using real-world cases, this clinical guide details the psychosocial challenges faced by patients navigating the world of medically assisted reproduction (MAR). It describes in depth the latest perspectives on counseling approaches to the evolving complexities of family creation, whether fertility...

Changes in the field of midwifery are of concern to those within the health care system, the academic world and those whose lives are touched by midwifery care. This text reflects on the current situation and questions whether it is the most appropriate way of providing care for the childbearing woman....

This eagerly awaited book offers a unique, comprehensive scientific study of the anatomy of the organ of female sexual pleasure. The authors use macroscopic and microscopic research to guide the reader from the glans, the visible part of the clitoris, where they explore the impressive sensory corpuscles,...

The tragic stories that are the history of abortion in Queensland have long been hidden in the police gazettes and inquest records of the state government archives. In Never Ever Again, Caroline de Costa unearths many of these records to show exactly what abortion meant for Australian women before the...

This book is all about reproductive genetics, a sociological concept developed to define the use of DNA-based technologies in the medical management and supervision of reproduction and pregnant women. In a searching analysis, Elizabeth Ettorre uncovers the hidden social processes involved in the development...

In From Hysteria to Hormones, Amy Koerber examines the rhetorical activity that preceded the early twentieth-century emergence of the word hormone and the impact of this word on expert understandings of women’s health. Shortly after Ernest Henry Starling coined the term “hormone” in 1905,...

The Part 1 MRCOG covers basic science knowledge as it applies to obstetrics and gynaecology. There are two papers, both of which contain a mixture of single best answer questions (SBAs) and multiple choice questions (MCQs). This book provides a verbatim transcript for the MCQ element of each of the 10...

Heather, and her husband, Mark, want to share their personal story of infertility, and offer guidance and support for others who face failure during IVF, or find themselves sitting at the infertility crossroads. It can feel at times a very sad and isolated place to be. During their personal journey,...

The DRCOG (Diploma) is an examination for doctors who wish to offer obstetrics, gynaecology and other aspects of women's health care in a primary care setting (GP surgeries, walk-in centres and family planning clinics). This book provides a comprehensive guide to the new style DRCOG examination which...

In 1998 it was first showed that intravenous Intralipid could prevent or improve resuscitation from cardiovascular collapse by severe bupivacaine overdose in rats. Since then published examples now include toxicities related to verapamil, diltiazem, amlodipine, quetiapine and sertraline, haldoperidol,...

This exceptional text-atlas provides an overview of the most updated evidence-based information on a variety of skin problems in pregnancy, offering a guide for evaluation, diagnosis, and management. Themes include physiologic skin changes of pregnancy, preexisting skin diseases and tumors affected...

Bartholin cyst is an acute medical disorder that causes cystic inflammation of the Bartholin gland at the vulva region in females.Bartholin Gland is located behind the bulb of the vestibule which is the erectile tissue of the female.These glands are found on each side at 4 and 8 o’clock positions...

OSCE examinations are compulsory for Medical students and specialist trainees. The student is led through a clinical scenario and then assessed on examination, history taking, investigation, diagnosis and management. Some students are able to practice OSCEs with a teacher acting as the patient, however...