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A Woman's Concise Guide to Common Medical Tests
ISBN: 9780813535807 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Every year, millions of healthy women undergo a variety of screening tests without understanding why or the meaning of the outcome. If you are among those women, overwhelmed by information and baffled by results, this is the book you've been waiting for. In straightforward, personable prose, A Woman's Concise Guide to Common Medical Tests surveys a wide variety of standard tests commonly suggested by doctors. Using the recommendations of the U.S. Preventative Health Services Task Force as a starting point, physicians Michele C. Moore and Caroline M. de Costa describe and... Every year, millions of healthy women undergo a variety of screening tests without understanding why or the meaning of the outcome. If you are ... |
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107,26 zł |
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Making Midwives Legal: Childbirth, Medicine, and the Law -- SEC
ISBN: 9780814207031 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Everyone who cares about the question of regulating lay-midwifery should consider the author's premise." -"Journal of Nurse-Midwifery" "Making Midwives Legal" explores what happens when midwifery and medicine are brought together by legal regulation. Combining historical data on the regulation of midwifery in Europe and the Unites States with a field study of the regulation of midwifery in Texas, Arizona, and California, Raymond G. DeVries uncovers the subtle ways legislation alters the profession-demonstrating both beneficial and detrimental consequences. This new edition includes an...
"Everyone who cares about the question of regulating lay-midwifery should consider the author's premise." -"Journal of Nurse-Midwifery" "Making Midwiv...
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183,58 zł |
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Beyond the Reproductive Body: The Politics of Women's Health and Work in Early Victorian England
ISBN: 9780814251225 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Appealing to audiences interested in the histories of medicine, women, gender, labor, and social policy, Beyond the Reproductive Body examines womens health in relation to work in early Victorian England. Government officials and reformers investigating the laboring population became convinced that the female body would be ruined by gainful employment, making women incapable of reproducing a healthy labor force. Womens work was thus framed as a public health "problem." Poor women were caught between the contradictory expectations of the reproductive body, which supposedly precluded any...
Appealing to audiences interested in the histories of medicine, women, gender, labor, and social policy, Beyond the Reproductive Body examines ...
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205,10 zł |
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Nutrition and the Female Athlete
ISBN: 9780849379178 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Whether you exercise for fun, or in competitive situations, you should understand the important role nutrition plays in fitness. This useful new text focuses on nutrition as it specifically relates to female athletes. It addresses topics of major importance to women in sports, coaches, trainers, sports nutritionists, and physicians. Each chapter is a "mini-course" on a particular aspect of nutrition. Subjects include the nutritional practices of female athletes; the requirements for carbohydrates, proteins, and fats; details on vitamins and minerals, with special emphasis on the nutrients of...
Whether you exercise for fun, or in competitive situations, you should understand the important role nutrition plays in fitness. This useful new text ...
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780,44 zł |
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One Hundred Doses
ISBN: 9780865344600 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Farm and ranch women are the heart of an important American institution--agriculture--and their strength is a critical resource for their families and communities. This book offers those women their own special prescription for health and well-being in one hundred small doses.
Farm and ranch women are the heart of an important American institution--agriculture--and their strength is a critical resource for their families and...
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88,20 zł |
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Screaming to be Heard: Hormonal Connections Women Suspect ... and Doctors Still Ignore, Completely Revised and Expanded
ISBN: 9780871319142 / Angielski / Twarda / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Observations, anecdotes, and illustrations from one of America's favorite writers.
Observations, anecdotes, and illustrations from one of America's favorite writers.
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154,04 zł |
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A Woman's Guide to Regaining Bladder Control: Everything You Need to Know for the Diagnosis and Cure of Incontinence
ISBN: 9780871319470 / Angielski / Twarda / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Respected urologists, reassure women that incontinence can be controlled or cured and they can live without fear of having an accident in public.
Respected urologists, reassure women that incontinence can be controlled or cured and they can live without fear of having an accident in public.
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76,97 zł |
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A Woman's Best Medicine: Health, Happiness and Long Life Through Ayur-Veda
ISBN: 9780874777857 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In A Woman s Best Medicine, two physicians and a research psychologist trained in Maharishi Ayur-Veda medicine apply this ancient wisdom to women s health concerns. Among other topics they discuss are: the benefits of the menstrual cycle; practical ways to enjoy a comfortable pregnancy, childbirth, and menopause; the important contribution of nurturing relationships to wellness; and an introduction to daily and seasonal eating, sleep, and exercise routines.
Through questionnaires that assess personal temperament, body-mind type, emotions, and habits, A Woman s Best Medicine... In A Woman s Best Medicine, two physicians and a research psychologist trained in Maharishi Ayur-Veda medicine apply this ancient wisdom to wom...
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92,23 zł |
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The Osteoporosis Handbook
ISBN: 9780878332595 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Updated and Revised with the latest information for men and women.
Updated and Revised with the latest information for men and women.
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101,97 zł |
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Finding the Healer Within
ISBN: 9780887376818 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. FINDING THE HEALER WITHIN embodies the essence of a true holistic approach to women's health, combining the current trend toward mind/body healing with years of clinical observation by a successful nurse practitioner.
The book seeks to empower women to take control of their own well being, and to inspire them to become more inquisitive and inventive about the healing process, itself. Nursing specializes in caring while medicine specializes in curing. FINDING THE HEALER WITHIN embodies the essence of a true holistic approach to women's health, combining the current trend toward mind/body healing wit...
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106,28 zł |
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Napoleon and the Woman Question: Discourses of the Other Sex in French Education, Medicine, and Medical Law, 1799-1815
ISBN: 9780896725591 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Women under the Napoleonic regime have been largely neglected by historians. Through recovered discourses and other primary sources, in Napoleon and the Woman Question June K. Burton uncovers the strategies that Napoleonic women employed to control their lives. She begins with an analysis of Napoleon s personal attitudes about the nature of women. He did not view them as weak vessels, but rather as industrious and strong, with an important role: as wives and mothers. She discusses France s first national system of midwifery education, women s issues in Napoleonic textbooks, the infanticide...
Women under the Napoleonic regime have been largely neglected by historians. Through recovered discourses and other primary sources, in Napoleon and t...
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165,85 zł |
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Breast Cancer: A Family Survival Guide
ISBN: 9780897892933 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A supportive, self-help manual on breast cancer. This book provides important information on detecting breast cancer, dealing with it physically and emotionally, and surviving it. Fears, truths, remedies, and alternatives are presented, weighed, and evaluated from perspectives of doctors, nurses, patients, families, and experts. Issues such as insurance, physical changes, family stress, recovery, and death are discussed frankly and openly. The work includes valuable appendices including a glossary of terms, suggestions for further reading, questions to ask doctors, tips on assisting those... A supportive, self-help manual on breast cancer. This book provides important information on detecting breast cancer, dealing with it physically an... |
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359,42 zł |
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Breast Cancer: A Family Survival Guide
ISBN: 9780897894388 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A supportive, self-help manual on breast cancer. This book provides important information on detecting breast cancer, dealing with it physically and emotionally, and surviving it. Fears, truths, remedies, and alternatives are presented, weighed, and evaluated from perspectives of doctors, nurses, patients, families, and experts. Issues such as insurance, physical changes, family stress, recovery, and death are discussed frankly and openly. The work includes valuable appendices including a glossary of terms, suggestions for further reading, questions to ask doctors, tips on assisting those... A supportive, self-help manual on breast cancer. This book provides important information on detecting breast cancer, dealing with it physically an... |
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215,60 zł |
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The Menopause Industry: How the Medical Establishment Exploits Women
ISBN: 9780897931601 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Veteran health investigator Sandra Coney presents compelling evidence that how we perceive menopause is shaped and, in large measure, distorted by those who have transformed this natural process into a wildly lucrative enterprise. Coney examines the true motivations behind the medical industry's highly publicized depiction of the hardships of menopause. National TV and radio tour.
Veteran health investigator Sandra Coney presents compelling evidence that how we perceive menopause is shaped and, in large measure, distorted by tho...
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57,46 zł |
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Recovering from Breast Surgery: Exercises to Strengthen Your Body and Relieve Pain
ISBN: 9780897931809 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A practical guide for women to accelerate and ease recovery from breast cancer surgery and other breast-related surgeries offers exercises to strengthen the body and relieve pain, uses real women's stories as examples, and addresses emotional issues involved.
A practical guide for women to accelerate and ease recovery from breast cancer surgery and other breast-related surgeries offers exercises to strength...
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49,77 zł |
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Once a Month: Understanding and Treating PMS
ISBN: 9780897932554 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Surveys show that 75 percent of women experience some aspect of PMS. This new edition of Once a Month discusses the most common symptoms, offers self-help strategies, and includes new information on the effects of PMS on osteoporosis.
Surveys show that 75 percent of women experience some aspect of PMS. This new edition of Once a Month discusses the most common symptoms, offers self-...
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61,30 zł |
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Sudden Menopause: Restoring Health and Emotional Well-Being
ISBN: 9780897933254 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides answers for women not quite at midlife who undergo menopause brought on by a hysterectomy, anorexia, chemotherapy, or a reaction to medication. Topics covered include hot flashes, emotional instability, osteoporosis prevention, and heart disease. Each subject is addressed medically and holistically, with a thorough description of coping options.
This book provides answers for women not quite at midlife who undergo menopause brought on by a hysterectomy, anorexia, chemotherapy, or a reaction to...
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68,99 zł |
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Natural Birth Control Made Simple
ISBN: 9780897934039 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book gives specific instruction on the use of two methods of family planning: Natural Family Planning and Fertility Awareness Method.
These methods give couples natural choices: 1. To avoid pregnancy, you can determine when you are infertile and have sexual intercourse without conceiving. 2. To become pregnant, you can track the days of the month when you are most fertile and have intercourse when you are most likely to conceive. 3. These safe non-invasive techniques can be used by themselves or combined with other contraception methods. 4. The techniques are... This book gives specific instruction on the use of two methods of family planning: Natural Family Planning and Fertility Awareness Method.
These m... |
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68,99 zł |
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Menopause Without Medicine: The Trusted Women's Resource with the Latest Information on Hrt, Breast Cancer, Heart Disease, and Natural Estrogens
ISBN: 9780897934053 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is needed more than ever. The National Institute of Health interrupted their huge HRT (hormone replacement therapy) study in July 2002 after they found that Prempro, a combination of estrogen and progestin, had detrimental health effects which include an increased risk for breast cancer, heart disease, and stroke.
This new edition examines the latest information about HRT and the safer alternatives. It completely validates the author's long-held bias against HRT and shows women, whether perimenopausal, menopausal, or postmenopausal, how they can maintain and improve their health... This book is needed more than ever. The National Institute of Health interrupted their huge HRT (hormone replacement therapy) study in July 2002 after...
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96,03 zł |
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The Natural Estrogen Diet and Recipe Book: Delicious Recipes for a Healthy Lifestyle
ISBN: 9780897934152 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Natural Estrogen Diet and Recipe Book provides an alternative to menopause treatment that avoids hormone replacement therapy. The book not only features helpful charts and over 100 nutritious and tasty recipes, but also explains how plant estrogens can alleviate the symptoms of menopause.
The Natural Estrogen Diet and Recipe Book provides an alternative to menopause treatment that avoids hormone replacement therapy. The book not only fe...
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68,99 zł |
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