Kategoria BISAC: Health & Fitness >> Women's Health - General

Dieses Fachbuch vermittelt anschaulich und praxisnah das fur die interdisziplinare Patientenbetreuung durch Gynakologen und Humangenetiker in der Reproduktionsmedizin, der Pranataldiagnostik und der Tumordiagnostik benotigte Wissen. In den einzelnen Kapiteln werden die allgemeinen Grundlagen der Humangenetik verstandlich beschrieben und das Wissen zur genetischen Beratung fur die Anwendung humangenetischer Methoden vermittelt. Weitere Kapitel widmen sich den Ursachen und klinischen Folgen genetisch bedingter Storungen des Menschen. Durch die Darstellung praxisbezogener Fallbeispiele werden...

I Am Not My Breast Cancer gathers the warm, loving, frank, and informed voices of more than eight hundred women--from every state in the nation and from continents as far away as Australia and Africa--who reveal their fears, trade advice, share experiences, and express their deepest, most intimate concerns. Essential reading for any woman with this diagnosis, it offers the companionship of other women dealing with this disease. Taking the reader chronologically through the stages of diagnosis, treatment, recovery, and self-discovery, I Am Not My Breast Cancer offers women...

Writing to be understood by the layreader, Finkel shows how breast cancer develops and explains the controversy surrounding mammography. How valid are the screenings? Who should be screened? How frequently? At what age? Should women be screened at all? This book dissects the issues to help present answers. Above all, says Finkel. Women need to make informed decisions, and to do what they need to understand the potential benefits and potential harms accompanying mammography.

This book includes a timeline showing changing public advice on mammography across the years. Listings...

Getting a grip on your finances is one of the few things you can do to regain control of this process. Infertility experts Evelina Weidman Sterling and Angie...

This handbook discusses 33 nations in terms of abortion's legal status, development of the policy, availability of contraception and abortion services, abortion rates, fertility trends, and the demographic/socioeconomic profiles of affected women. The amount of data consolidated in one volume is prodigious, providing information not readily available in any other single source. . . . In terms of policies and data, the book is excellent. "Library Journal"

This unique work assembles in a single volume data from several continents on the general pattern of legal activity pertaining to...

This comprehensive bibliography abstracts 364 articles concerning the fertility-related attitudes and behavior of Hispanics in the United States. Compiled as part of a research program designed to improve the knowledge of these topics among Hispanic adolescents, this carefully constructed reference surveys articles written during the past fifteen years on Hispanic attitudes concerning marital status, sexual activity, pregnancy, abortion, childbearing, and contraception. The work is organized into subject headings under the broad categories of Fertility Determinants, Pregnancy and...

Winter has chosen 500 books, articles, and audiovisuals for this highly selective bibliography that emphasizes psychological and social aspects of elective abortion, although clinical technologies are also included. Items are chosen because they are classics in the field or represent specific points of view. . . . Because of its balance and guidance regarding emotional attitudes, and since no substantial annotated bibliographies devoted to abortion have appeared in recent years, the bibliography will be valuable to general readers and undergraduates. "Choice"

This bibliography provides...

Women with disabilities face a double set of prejudices, based on gender and disability. The world too often sees them in terms of stereotypes: childlike, dependent, incompetent, asexual, unable to take on the role of worker, sexual partner, or mother. As a result, women with disabilities are left confused about who they are, and who they can become. In this exploration into the lives of ten women with disabilities, Rousso hopes to remedy this confusion. To some degree, all of the successful, adult women profiled in this book have faced these same prejudices about their potential at...