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Unsafe Motherhood
Mayan Maternal Mortality and Subjectivity in Post-War Guatemala
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Since 1987, when the global community first recognized the high frequency of women in developing countries dying from pregnancy-related causes, little progress has been made to combat this problem. This study follows the global policies that have been implemented in Sololá, Guatemala in order to...
Change Your Menopause
Why one size does not fit all. 2nd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
CHANGE YOUR MENOPAUSE is not just another book about menopause. It is the evidence and experience based menopause book written by the one person with the knowledge, inside information, and background to provide genuine facts, truths, solutions, and guidance, all supported by current scientific research.
“My...
Empowered Fertility
The essential guide to managing fertility treatments and challenges, plus information about IVF
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
Infertility can make women - and their partners - feel completely powerless. This clear, perceptive and incredibly helpful book enables women to empower themselves to not only deal with infertility but navigate the often difficult and confusing path through IVF.
Written by experienced counsellor...
by Kenneth Kee
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2014
My uterus you cause me pain every period
The pain makes me cry like an idiot
Since puberty when I had my first monthly bleeding
The cramps you gave me causes my fainting
The pain was in my lower abdomen
It felt like I was stabbed by a javelin
My thighs and back were aching
I felt nauseated...
The Sperm Meets Egg Plan: Getting Pregnant Faster
A Step by Step Guide to Pregnancy Achievement
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
The Sperm Meets Egg Plan is a step-by-step guide to achieving pregnancy without taking invasive tests, charting temperatures, or making mistakes in predicting your ovulation that result in mistimed attempts at fertilization.
Designed by Deanna Roy after months of trying made her believe...
by Christopher Sutton, Kevin Jones
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2004
Endometriosis affects a huge number of women throughout the world. It has been estimated that between 1% and 15% of women who are examined for pelvic pain and infertility may have endometriosis; the true prevalence is unknown because diagnosis can only be made with any accuracy by laparoscopic examination...
by Kenneth Kee
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
Uterine Fibroids are medical benign tumors (non-cancerous) of the smooth muscles of the uterine cavity.They are the most frequent tumor found in women (25%) especially after the age of 35.Uterine fibroids are tumors that grow in a woman's womb (uterus).These growths are normally not cancerous...
by Caroline de Costa
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2008
Who performed the first caesarean? Was Julius Caesar born by caesarean section? If I have a caesarean for my first baby do all the other births have to be caesareans as well? Is it okay for a woman to have a caesarean just because she wants one…or is she being selfish? What are the real risks of...
Sex and Cancer
Intimacy, Romance, and Love after Diagnosis and Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
An intimate partnership has physical and psychological components, both of which often take a hit when cancer enters the union. The prospect, and then the process, of treatments tend to alter the way the two people relate to each other. When the diagnosis is one of gynecologic or reproductive cancer...
Vision for Life, Revised Edition
Ten Steps to Natural Eyesight Improvement
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
All parts of the body need exercise for optimal health, and the eyes are no different. Vision for Life presents an approach to eye health for people with 20/20 vision who wish to maintain their perfect vision as well as people who see poorly and would like to improve their eyesight.
Clients...
Pink Ribbon Blues: How Breast Cancer Culture Undermines Women's Health
How Breast Cancer Culture Undermines Women's Health
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2010
Medical sociologist Gayle A. Sulik reveals the hidden costs of the pink ribbon as an industry, one in which breast cancer functions as a brand name with a pink ribbon logo. Based on historical and ethnographic research, analysis of awareness campaigns and advertisements, and hundreds of interviews,...
Eve's Rib
The Groundbreaking Guide to Women's Health
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
For decades, medicine saw men and women as essentially the same physically except in the area of reproduction. However, a new and groundbreaking science of gender-specific medicine has discovered astonishing distinctions between male and female bodies. From the thickness of our skin to the signs of...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
This unique introduction to the essentials of global health has been constructed by medical students from all over the world through the help of Medsin (now Students for Global Health) and the International Federation of Medical Students’ Association (IFMSA). The global student and trainee author...
The Behavioral Health Specialist in Primary Care
Skills for Integrated Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
Patients with chronic conditions often need psychosocial support and brief counseling to help them make the lifestyle and behavioral changes required to prevent disease complications. This innovative text, with contributions from respected clinicians and researchers in all arenas of behavioral health,...