Kategoria BISAC: Medical >> Gynecology & Obstetrics

Our current era of globalization, war, and socioeconomic unrest has revealed public health as a worldwide concern and a major frontier for social justice with maternal and child health at its epicenter. Yet, there has been a relative scarcity of training resources specifically dedicated to this crucial area. "Maternal and Child Health: Global Challenges, Programs, and Policies" addresses this gap in current knowledge by analyzing the range of socioeconomic and environmental factors, health care disparities, politics, policies, and cultural practices that impact the health and safety of...

The deprivations and cruelty of slavery have overshadowed our understanding of the institution's most human dimension: birth. We often don't realize that after the United States stopped importing slaves in 1808, births were more important than ever; slavery and the southern way of life could continue only through babies born in bondage.

In the antebellum South, slaveholders' interest in slave women was matched by physicians struggling to assert their own professional authority over childbirth, and the two began to work together to increase the number of infants born in the slave...

Brustkrebs ist die haufigste Krebserkrankung bei Frauen. In der jungsten Vergangenheit wurden zahlreiche neue Untersuchungstechniken und Behandlungsmoglichkeiten entwickelt und etabliert. In dieser Neu-Erscheinung hat der Herausgeber neueste Konzepte gut verstandlich zusammengestellt. Im Vordergrund steht dabei der praktische Nutzen fur die erkrankten Frauen. Individuell ausgerichtetes Vorgehen zur Kontrolle uber die Krankheit und zur Erhaltung der Lebensqualitat sind zentrale Inhalte dieses Buches.

• Neue diagnostische Verfahren
• Operative Strategien (inklusive...

L uretere e un organo deputato unicamente al collegamento tra il rene e la vescica. Per la delicatezza della sua struttura anatomica e per la sua estensione in lunghezza che ne condiziona complessi rapporti anatomici con molti altri organi, detiene una fragilita intrinseca alla patologia propria, offre scarsa difesa al coinvolgimento da parte delle patologie di organi vicini ed e predisponibile ai traumi chirurgici ed endoscopici. Nella pratica clinica, queste caratteristiche vengono non infrequentemente sottovalutate, esponendo l organo a pericolose sequele.

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1. Molecular and Immunological Aspects of Sperm-Egg Interaction
2. Embryonic-Endometrial Cross-Talk
3. Immunobiology of Pregnancy
4. Autoantibodies and Infertility
5. Immunocontraception
6. Mucosal Immunology and Reproductive Tract Infections

Intrinsic errors of skeletal development are individually rare but of clinical importance because of their overall frequency and their impact on a patient's life. Sonography has become a routine component of prenatal care, and many of these disorders are diagnosed prenatally. Postnatally, the prenatal diagnosis has to be verified. To this end, fetal radiography is an effective, simple and economic way to establish a diagnosis or to narrow the number of diagnostic possibilities sufficiently to enable pathological, biochemical or molecular studies to be used in the quest for a specific...

This book follows shifts in treatment for cervical cancer to an image-based approach, endometrial cancer management to increased use of chemotherapy and vaginal brachytherapy, and vaginal cancer therapy to image guidance and high-dose delivery with IMRT.