Our Choices: Women's Personal Decisions about Abortion
ISBN: 9781560243335 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Frank discussions by 16 women from a broad spectrum of social, economic, and religious backgrounds who have had legal or illegal abortions from the 1950s to the 1980s. They recount their ideas and feelings about sex, pregnancy, and abortion; and reveal much about communication with men, the social and psychological contexts, family support, and oth
Frank discussions by 16 women from a broad spectrum of social, economic, and religious backgrounds who have had legal or illegal abortions from the 19...
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450,35 zł |
Reproductive Biomechanics, Volume 1101
ISBN: 9781573316736 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The reproductive system is composed of complex sub-systems, which are driven by sophisticated biochemical processes, whereas their performance is controlled by the same physical laws that exist in any mechanical process on Earth (e.g., Newton's laws).
Accordingly, the understanding of any physiological phenomenon, including the development of a pathologic condition, requires comprehensive evaluation of the biophysical and biomechanical aspects of reproduction in concert with the biological and clinical features. Several of the scientists from around the world who investigate the physical... The reproductive system is composed of complex sub-systems, which are driven by sophisticated biochemical processes, whereas their performance is cont...
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Androgen Deficiency in the Adult Male: Causes, Diagnosis and Treatment
ISBN: 9781842140321 / Angielski / Twarda / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This comprehensive clinical textbook explores the male menopause concept. It explains the causes of androgen deficiency in men, its differential diagnosis, and how to treat it. advice and observations from 20 years of work in testosterone research. There is a thorough subject index, chapter-by-chapter literature reviews and a fund of bibliographic information.
This comprehensive clinical textbook explores the male menopause concept. It explains the causes of androgen deficiency in men, its differential diagn...
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880,10 zł |
A Practical Manual of Hysteroscopy and Endometrial Ablation Techniques: A Clinical Cookbook
ISBN: 9781842142240 / Angielski / Twarda / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The past decade has seen an explosive growth in both knowledge and techniques used in hysteroscopy and endometrial ablation. Helping readers keep up with the rapid growth in this field, this book covers current and emerging endometrial ablation procedures. It provides practical, step-by-step illustrated descriptions of basic and advanced techniques and new methods. The editors, Resad Pasic and Ronald L. Levine, have brought together and internationally renowned group of authors to contribute their knowledge and expertise. The illustrations, whether line drawings or actual photographs, deliver...
The past decade has seen an explosive growth in both knowledge and techniques used in hysteroscopy and endometrial ablation. Helping readers keep up w...
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905,98 zł |
Manual of Clinical Hysteroscopy, Second Edition
ISBN: 9781842142592 / Angielski / Twarda / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the publication of the first edition, there have been a number of important innovations in hysteroscopy both in technique and equipment design. The internationally renowned author, a pioneer, researcher, and teacher of these techniques, has fully revised and updated the text to reflect these advances. Now in full color, the book reviews the fundamentals with a cohesive and unified philosophy that the author has developed over many years. This edition contains intrauterine figures and the same qualities that made the first edition a success, such as ease of reading, concise descriptions,...
Since the publication of the first edition, there have been a number of important innovations in hysteroscopy both in technique and equipment design. ...
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776,56 zł |
An Atlas of Human Gametes and Conceptuses: An Illustrated Reference for Assisted Reproductive Technology
ISBN: 9781850700166 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Replacing and superseding all other works in this area, Dr. Lucinda L. Veeck's An Atlas of Human Gametes and Conceptuses is the only book no w in print that shows the typical and atypical morphology of human ooc ytes, sperm, and preembryos collected and cultured during the course o f in vitro fertilization treatment. Brilliantly illustrated with hundr eds of original photographs in color as well as black and white, the b ook also details and fully illustrates specific new reproductive techn ologies and provides the reader with both a glossary and a concise his tory of in vitro fertilization....
Replacing and superseding all other works in this area, Dr. Lucinda L. Veeck's An Atlas of Human Gametes and Conceptuses is the only book no w in prin...
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Conceiving the Embryo: Ethics, Law and Practice in Human Embryology
ISBN: 9789041102089 / Angielski / Twarda / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume of essays, together with its companion Creating the Child: The Ethics, Law and Practice of Assisted Procreation (Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, 1996, ISBN 90-411-0207-8) is the result of a concerted action in the BIOMED programme of the European Commission, which was coordinated by the Editor. Clinicians, lawyers and philosophers explore the theoretical and practical problems presented by the new technologies in assisted human reproduction in Eastern, Central and Western Europe. The central question of the status of the human embryo is examined in the light of recent...
This volume of essays, together with its companion Creating the Child: The Ethics, Law and Practice of Assisted Procreation (Martinus N...
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1090,23 zł |
Human Embryology Made Easy
ISBN: 9789057025457 / Angielski / Twarda / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A review of essential concepts in human development, intended for use of medical students during their study of anatomy, pathology, development biology, and paediatrics. Each chapter opens with highlights, followed by descriptions of normal development of particular systems.
A review of essential concepts in human development, intended for use of medical students during their study of anatomy, pathology, development biolog...
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Operative Atlas of Laparoscopic Reconstructive Urology [With DVD]
ISBN: 9781848001503 / Angielski / Twarda / 579 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Arthur D. Smith This new Operative Atlas of Laparoscopic Reconstructive Urology is the ideal reference book for residents and fellows as it has step-by-step pictures and only the essential prose. It is conveniently divided into eight clinical sections, with a ninth section o- lining training exercises. The major part of the book is illustrated with magnificent photographs and diagrams depicting every step of a particular procedure. Section I is devoted to instrumentation, access, and exit from the abdomen. The instruments are clearly shown and have been photographed from both outside and...
Arthur D. Smith This new Operative Atlas of Laparoscopic Reconstructive Urology is the ideal reference book for residents and fellows as it has step-b...
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771,08 zł |
The Political Geographies of Pregnancy
ISBN: 9780252075971 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As reproductive power finds its way into the hands of medical professionals, lobbyists, and policymakers, the geographies of pregnancy are shifting, and the boundaries need to be redrawn, argues Laura R. Woliver. Across a politically charged backdrop of reproductive issues, Woliver exposes strategies that claim to uphold the best interests of children, families, and women but in reality complicate women's struggles to have control over their own bodies. Utilizing feminist standpoint theory and promoting a feminist ethic of care, Woliver looks at the ways modern reproductive politics are...
As reproductive power finds its way into the hands of medical professionals, lobbyists, and policymakers, the geographies of pregnancy are shifting, a...
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113,84 zł |
Goddesses, Elixirs, and Witches: Plants and Sexuality Throughout Human History
ISBN: 9780230610644 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the earliest times, the medicinal properties of certain herbs were connected with deities, particularly goddesses. Only now with modern scientific research can we begin to understand the basisand rationality that these divine connections had and, being preserved in myths and religious stories, they continued to have a significant impact through the present day. Riddle argues that the pomegranate, mandrake, artemisia, and chaste tree plants substantially altered thedevelopment of medicine and fertility treatments.The herbs, once sacred to Inanna, Aphrodite, Demeter, Artemis, and Hermes,...
From the earliest times, the medicinal properties of certain herbs were connected with deities, particularly goddesses. Only now with modern scientifi...
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501,19 zł |
Botanical Medicine in Clinical Practice
ISBN: 9781845934132 / Angielski / Twarda / 944 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The potential benefits of plants and plant extracts in the treatment and possible prevention of many leading health concerns are becoming more widely recognized within the medicinal community. This major comprehensive reference work contains contributions from more than 80 clinical and academic experts in the field, covering a range of plant products and their uses, divided into sections on topics such as treatments of cardiovascular diseases and cancer. The book covers the safety and efficacy of botanical treatments and there is also a chapter analyzing the possible interactions of herbal...
The potential benefits of plants and plant extracts in the treatment and possible prevention of many leading health concerns are becoming more widely ...
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1587,17 zł |
Reproductive and Developmental Toxicology
ISBN: 9780824798574 / Angielski / Twarda / 740 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Offers extensive discussions on the pharmacological, environmental, endocrinological, and natural factors that alter reproductive or developmental processes-elucidating the effects of toxicants on mechanisms of reproduction. Describing biological actions common to both genders as well as gender-specific processes.
Offers extensive discussions on the pharmacological, environmental, endocrinological, and natural factors that alter reproductive or developmental pro...
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957,75 zł |
Reproductive Disruptions: Gender, Technology, and Biopolitics in the New Millennium
ISBN: 9781845454067 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nominated for the 2007 Book Prize by the Council on Anthropology and Reproduction (AAA) Reproductive disruptions, such as infertility, pregnancy loss, adoption, and childhood disability, are among the most distressing experiences in people's lives. Based on research by leading medical anthropologists from around the world, this book examines such issues as local practices detrimental to safe pregnancy and birth; conflicting reproductive goals between women and men; miscommunications between pregnant women and their genetic counselors; cultural anxieties over gamete donation... Nominated for the 2007 Book Prize by the Council on Anthropology and Reproduction (AAA) Reproductive disruptions, such as infertili... |
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512,53 zł |
Clinical Andrology: Eau/Esau Course Guidelines
ISBN: 9781841846804 / Angielski / Twarda / 444 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Interest in andrology is rapidly growing with issues such as male infertility, erectile dysfunction, late-onset hypogonadism and reproductive cancers getting more and more attention. This is a trend that will continue to grow with the demographics of an ageing population. This book will be based around courses run by the European Academy of Andrology – a collaboration between three European societies: EAU (urology), EFES (endocrinology) and ESHRE (reproductive medicine). It reflects the modern trends of evidence based practice, minimizing interventions, and promoting male reproductive... Interest in andrology is rapidly growing with issues such as male infertility, erectile dysfunction, late-onset hypogonadism and reproductive cance... |
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Reproductive Health and the Environment
ISBN: 9781402048289 / Angielski / Twarda / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The scope of environmental impact on reproduction is very large. It aims at covering all aspects of reproductive problems and their links to the environment. Therefore, it deals with female and male reproductive impairments, whatever their severity and their sites, gonad or extra-gonad. For women, effects include direct lesions of the oocyte, with possibilities of chromosomal abnormalities but also malformations of the reproductive tract. Reduced fertility and in some cases total infertility may also result from menstrual irregularities, which can at times include anovulatory cycles. Hormonal...
The scope of environmental impact on reproduction is very large. It aims at covering all aspects of reproductive problems and their links to the envir...
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771,08 zł |
New Mechanisms for Tissue-Selective Estrogen-Free Contraception
ISBN: 9783540230892 / Angielski / Twarda / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Combined oral contraceptives are the most convenient and accepted method of hormonal contraception. Nevertheless, the medical community and consumers constantly demand innovation, additional benefits during use and lower hormonal load despite the high safety profile of available products. At the Ernst Schering Research Foundation Workshop 52, new perspectives and mechanisms for tissue-selective, estrogen-free contraception were discussed. The aim of the workshop was to bring together experts in the field of molecular and pharmacodynamic action of progestins with clinicians and medical... Combined oral contraceptives are the most convenient and accepted method of hormonal contraception. Nevertheless, the medical community and consume... |
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578,30 zł |
Artifizielle Reproduktion Und Gleichgeschlechtliche Elternschaft: Eine Arztrechtliche Untersuchung Zur Zulässigkeit Fortpflanzungsmedizinischer Maßnah
ISBN: 9783642012815 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 402 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Die moderne Reproduktionsmedizin hat den Zusammenhang zwischen Sexualitat und Fortpflanzung weitgehend suspendiert. Einhergehend mit der gestiegenen rechtlichen und gesellschaftlichen Anerkennung suchen zunehmend auch gleichgeschlechtliche Paare die Moglichkeiten dieser Disziplin nach. Allerdings sind die Voraussetzungen ihres Zugangs zu Massnahmen assistierter Reproduktion grosstenteils ungeregelt. Die Arbeit nahert sich zunachst der gleichgeschlechtlichen Elternschaft aus soziologischer, kulturgeschichtlicher, sexualwissenschaftlicher, entwicklungspsychologischer und... Die moderne Reproduktionsmedizin hat den Zusammenhang zwischen Sexualitat und Fortpflanzung weitgehend suspendiert. Einhergehend mit der gestiegene... |
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306,25 zł |
Human Placenta: Structure & Development, Circulation & Functions
ISBN: 9781608764570 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The placenta is a fetomaternal organ provided by nature to aid development of the growing embryo by facilitating gas and nutrient exchange between the mother and fetus and by helping to maintain fetomaternal tolerance. Aside from playing an age-old and essential role in fetal development, placental tissues have also attracted the interest of clinical scientists due to their potential utility as a therapeutic agent. This book provides an overview of the clinical applications which have been described for placental tissue or are currently applied, as well as a summary of the most recent results...
The placenta is a fetomaternal organ provided by nature to aid development of the growing embryo by facilitating gas and nutrient exchange between the...
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1216,55 zł |
Baby Markets
ISBN: 9780521513739 / Angielski / Twarda / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From Michael Jackson and Madonna to Nadya Suleman and Jon and Kate Gosselin, creating families can no longer be described by heterosexual reproduction in the intimacy of a couple s home and the privacy of their bedroom. On the contrary, babies can be brought into families through complex matrixes involving lawyers, coordinators, surrogates, brokers, donors, sellers, and endocrinologists, and without any traditional forms of intimacy. Mostly, these baby acquisitions are legal, but in some cases black markets are involved. In direct response to the need and desire to parent, men, women, and...
From Michael Jackson and Madonna to Nadya Suleman and Jon and Kate Gosselin, creating families can no longer be described by heterosexual reproduction...
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354,52 zł |