Gender and the Social Construction of Illness
ISBN: 9780759102385 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Judith Lorber and Lisa Jean Moore consider the interface between the social institutions of gender and Western medicine in this brief, lively textbook. They offer a distinct feminist viewpoint to analyze issues of power and politics concerning physical illness. SIGNS labeled the first edition 'a rich and imaginative work.' In the extensively revised second edition of this successful text, the authors add chapters on disability and genital surgeries. They also update and expand their discussions of social epidemiology, AIDS, the health professions, PMS, menopause, and feminist health care. For...
Judith Lorber and Lisa Jean Moore consider the interface between the social institutions of gender and Western medicine in this brief, lively textbook...
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Stealing Second Base: A Breast Cancer Survivor's Experience and Breast Cancer Expert's Story: A Breast Cancer Survivor's Experience and Breast Cancer
ISBN: 9780763745097 / Angielski / Miękka / 113 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lillie Shockney, RN, BS, MAS, Is The Administrative Director Of The Johns Hopkins Avon Foundation Breast Center, Member Of The Surgical Faculty, A Breast Cancer Survivor, Oncology Nurse, And Nationally Renowned Speaker And Published Author On Breast Cancer. Her Book, Stealing Second Base: A Breast Cancer Survivor's Experience And Breast Cancer Expert's Story, Is A Unique, Empowering, And Often Humorous Story About The Journey Of A Woman Who Has Experienced Breast Cancer From Many Perspectives. Lillie Shockney Shares Her Story About Flipping To The Other Side Of The Patient's Side Rail When...
Lillie Shockney, RN, BS, MAS, Is The Administrative Director Of The Johns Hopkins Avon Foundation Breast Center, Member Of The Surgical Faculty, A Bre...
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174,34 zł |
Minding the Body: Psychotherapy in Cases of Chronic and Life-Threatening Illness
ISBN: 9780789013675 / Angielski / Twarda / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Support and empower women who are coping with the pain, fear, and stigma of serious diseaseBeing diagnosed with cancer, chronic fatigue syndrome, or fibromyalgia is a traumatic event that takes place at a time when the patient is already feeling physically (and often emotionally) drained. Minding the Body combines feminist and social constructionist approaches to offer an intimate look into the ways a therapist can help clients cope with the pain, fear, and stigma of serious disease.Minding the Body offers an alternative to the reductive view of the mind-body connection...
Support and empower women who are coping with the pain, fear, and stigma of serious diseaseBeing diagnosed with cancer, chronic fatigue synd...
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534,17 zł |
Minding the Body: Psychotherapy in Cases of Chronic and Life-Threatening Illness
ISBN: 9780789013682 / Angielski / Miękka / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Support and empower women who are coping with the pain, fear, and stigma of serious disease Being diagnosed with cancer, chronic fatigue syndrome, or fibromyalgia is a traumatic event that takes place at a time when the patient is already feeling physically (and often emotionally) drained. Minding the Body combines feminist and social constructionist approaches to offer an intimate look into the ways a therapist can help clients cope with the pain, fear, and stigma of serious disease. Minding the Body offers an alternative to the reductive view of the mind-body connection and also examines...
Support and empower women who are coping with the pain, fear, and stigma of serious disease Being diagnosed with cancer, chronic fatigue syndrome, or...
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142,39 zł |
Staying Dry: A Practical Guide to Bladder Control
ISBN: 9780801839092 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This highly acclaimed book offers help to the millions of adult Americans who deal with urinary incontinence. Based on a program developed at the National Institute on Aging in association with the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Staying Dry is the book that will put you back in charge. This highly acclaimed book offers help to the millions of adult Americans who deal with urinary incontinence. Based on a program developed at the N... |
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136,55 zł |
Women and Exercise: Physiology and Sports Medicine, Second Edition
ISBN: 9780803678170 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Women and Exercise is an invluable resource for all physicians, from general practitioners to specialists seeking information outside their specialty, who need up-to-date information and expert advice about women and exercise.
Women and Exercise is an invluable resource for all physicians, from general practitioners to specialists seeking information outside their specialty,...
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256,91 zł |
Songs from a Lead-Lined Room
ISBN: 9780807072158 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Songs from a Lead-Lined Room" is a unique and remarkable book rooted in truth and raw experience, and the first memoir to focus on the personal experience of radiation treatment. As with Shea's best-selling fiction, her sharp and insightful wit and her reporter's eye for the most telling and sometimes quirky details inform every page. She shares what she learns about the process of her treatment, her bouts of despair, indignity, and fear, as well as the faux pas, the innocent blunders, and the compassion and caring of her family, friends, and fellow patients
"Songs from a Lead-Lined Room" is a unique and remarkable book rooted in truth and raw experience, and the first memoir to focus on the personal exper...
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114,52 zł |
La Leche League: At the Crossroads of Medicine, Feminism, and Religion
ISBN: 9780807847916 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1956, when La Leche League was founded, if a new mother chose to breastfeed rather than bottlefeed her child, she could by no means expect universal support for her decision. Though physicians of the era admitted that breastfeeding was the best method of infant feeding, they warned of the difficulties that nursing mothers faced, and many held that successful breastfeeding required a knowledge of science and medicine that most new mothers could not claim. Started by seven Catholic women who simply wished to help their friends learn to breastfeed, La Leche League grew into an organization...
In 1956, when La Leche League was founded, if a new mother chose to breastfeed rather than bottlefeed her child, she could by no means expect universa...
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229,97 zł |
Not Exactly What I Had in Mind: An Incurable Love Story
ISBN: 9780812992281 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One week in 1989, Rosemary Breslin got a headache that wouldn't go away. After countless tests and treatments, doctors knew little about her strange disease except that it wasn't AIDS or cancer. Two years later, out of a job, in debt, and worried about insurance, Rosemary was invited out by friends--not knowing this would be the night she met her future husband. This is one woman's story about having a real life while facing the question of how long she might live. Serialized in Self magazine. 208 pp. National ads. Author tour. 40,000 print.
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One week in 1989, Rosemary Breslin got a headache that wouldn't go away. After countless tests and treatments, doctors knew little about her strange d...
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64,42 zł |
The Gender Politics of Hiv/AIDS in Women: Perspectives on the Pandemic in the United States
ISBN: 9780814730935 / Angielski / Miękka / 470 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Women now account for the majority of all new HIV/AIDS cases diagnosed in the United States. Yet, the resources allotted to women for research, health services, education, and outreach remain woefully inadequate. The Gender Politics of HIV/AIDS in Women fills crucial gaps in understanding the specific effects of HIV and AIDS on and in women's lives. It takes as its starting point the premise that it is vitally important for researchers, teachers, health service providers, public policy makers, and community-based organizers to begin taking gender-- especially as it intersects with... Women now account for the majority of all new HIV/AIDS cases diagnosed in the United States. Yet, the resources allotted to women for research, hea... |
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132,22 zł |
Self-Made Men: Identity and Embodiment Among Transsexual Men
ISBN: 9780826514349 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Self-Made Men, Henry Rubin explores the production of male identities in the lives of twenty-two FTM transsexuals--people who have changed their sex from female to male. The author relates the compelling personal narratives of his subjects to the historical emergence of FTM as an identity category.
In the interviews that form the heart of the book, the FTMs speak about their struggles to define themselves and their diverse experiences, from the pressures of gender conformity in adolescence to being mistaken for -butch lesbians, - from hormone treatments and surgeries to... In Self-Made Men, Henry Rubin explores the production of male identities in the lives of twenty-two FTM transsexuals--people who have changed t...
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486,98 zł |
Self-Made Men: Identity and Embodiment Among Transsexual Men
ISBN: 9780826514356 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Self-Made Men, Henry Rubin explores the production of male identities in the lives of twenty-two FTM transsexuals--people who have changed their sex from female to male. The author relates the compelling personal narratives of his subjects to the historical emergence of FTM as an identity category.
In the interviews that form the heart of the book, the FTMs speak about their struggles to define themselves and their diverse experiences, from the pressures of gender conformity in adolescence to being mistaken for -butch lesbians, - from hormone treatments and surgeries to... In Self-Made Men, Henry Rubin explores the production of male identities in the lives of twenty-two FTM transsexuals--people who have changed t...
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246,49 zł |
The Candida-Yeast Syndrome
ISBN: 9780879836979 / Angielski / Spiralna / 48 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Diagnosing and treating yeast infections. Diagnosing and treating yeast infections. |
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47,24 zł |
The Custom-Made Child?: Women-Centered Perspectives
ISBN: 9780896030244 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Women most fully experience the consequences of human reproductive technologies. Men who convene to evaluate such technologies discuss "them": the women who must accept, avoid, or even resist these technologies; the women who consume technologies they did not devise; the women who are the objects of policies made by men. So often the input of women is neither sought nor listened to. The privileged insights and perspectives that women bring to the consideration of technologies in human reproduction are the subject of these volumes, which constitute the revised and edited record of a Workshop...
Women most fully experience the consequences of human reproductive technologies. Men who convene to evaluate such technologies discuss "them": the wom...
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389,98 zł |
Transformation Through Menopause
ISBN: 9780897892681 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This] is by far the most wise and thought provoking book on menopause that I have ever read. It is must reading for every woman who dares to meet the challenges of menopause fully and consciously. " Christiane Northrup, M.D." This volume presents a holistic, theoretical framework for understanding menopause as a major developmental event in women's lives. Rather than an unpleasant phase to be endured or alleviated, Marian Van Eyk McCain views menopause as an empowering experience that women can use for personal growth. Artfully interweaving her research, years of clinical experience,... This] is by far the most wise and thought provoking book on menopause that I have ever read. It is must reading for every woman who dares to meet ... |
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Getting Pregnant & Staying Pregnant: Overcoming Infertility and Managing Your High-Risk Pregnancy
ISBN: 9780897932387 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Author is a nursing consultant. Text includes the latest information on fertility tests, treatments ranging from improved in-vitro fertilization to updated drug combinations and dosages, genetic testing, screening for hereditary abnormalities, using the Internet, and more.
Author is a nursing consultant. Text includes the latest information on fertility tests, treatments ranging from improved in-vitro fertilization to up...
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77,09 zł |
Thyroid Problems in Women and Children: Self-Help and Treatment
ISBN: 9780897933858 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The thyroid gland is central to the proper functioning of our bodies, regulating metabolism and organ function. Thyroid disorders result from an underactive thyroid - hypothroidism, with symptoms including fatigue, mood swings, weight gain, intolerance to cold, or an overactive thyroid - hyperthroidism, with symptoms including irritability, weight loss, sleep disturbances, vision problems and heat intolerance. Women are 5 to 8 times more likely than men to suffer from an overactive or underactive thyroid. Half of all thyroid problems remain undiagnosed, yet thyroid problems are 90% curable...
The thyroid gland is central to the proper functioning of our bodies, regulating metabolism and organ function. Thyroid disorders result from an under...
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64,21 zł |
Lymphedema: A Breast Cancer Patient's Guide to Prevention and Healing
ISBN: 9780897934589 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Women who undergo surgery for breast cancer may end up with lymphedema, a painful, visible swelling, usually of the arm. Coming to their aid, LYMPHEDEMA lays out the many options for preventing and treating the condition. The book provides information on reducing lymphedema through professional therapy as well as exercise and self-massage, plus helpful illustrations and additional resources. It also tells encouraging stories of women who have dealt with lymphedema successfully. With updates throughout on the latest research, products, and techniques, this new edition features expanded...
Women who undergo surgery for breast cancer may end up with lymphedema, a painful, visible swelling, usually of the arm. Coming to their aid, LYMPHEDE...
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85,68 zł |
Anorexia Nervosa: A Guide to Recovery
ISBN: 9780936077321 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Anorexia nervosa, in simple terms, is self-starvation. However, it is a complex problem with intricate roots; and, recovery is best accomplished with a grasp of sound information, specific tasks, and the support of others. All of that is provided in this guidebook, which includes: - Answers to questions most often asked
- Insight from recovered and recovering - Monika Ostroff's story of recovery - Specific things to do that have worked - Information on healthy eating and weight - Suggestions for how to stay committed - A special section for parents & loved ones Anorexia nervosa, in simple terms, is self-starvation. However, it is a complex problem with intricate roots; and, recovery is best accomplished with ...
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68,50 zł |
The Don't Diet, Live-It! Workbook: Healing Food, Weight and Body Issues
ISBN: 9780936077338 / Angielski / Miękka / 215 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This unique workbook is full of in-depth information, moving personal stories and insightful writing exercises to help people understand and resolve their food, weight and body image issues. Its sensitive insights teach readers how to be at peace with their bodies. Individuals and groups, world-wide, are using "The Don't Diet, Live-It Workbook" as a healing guide and now you can too This unique workbook is full of in-depth information, moving personal stories and insightful writing exercises to help people understand and resol... |
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102,86 zł |