Measuring Sleep, an Issue of Sleep Medicine Clinics, E-Book (Clinics: Internal Medicine, #16)
by Erna Sif Arnardottir
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) can cause a wide range of symptoms, both physical and psychological. This book combines cutting-edge psychological and social science research with compelling personal stories to provide a roadmap for researchers and mental health providers. PCOS can cause menstrual irregularities, infertility, insulin resistance, excess and male patterned body hair, and is strongly associated with depression and anxiety. PCOS affects everything from one’s self-conception...
A delightfully simple yoga title for women, featuring 45 step-by-step sequences specially designed for the female body. Written by a respected yoga professional, Yoga for Women: 45 Sequences for Physical, Emotional and Spiritual Wellbeing offers a comprehensive program of yoga poses and breathing techniques aimed at supporting menstrual health, menopause and libido, as well as emotional topics such as body image, self-esteem, stress reduction and relationships. The innovative 'yoga for women' m...
Presenting the findings of a three-year study, Pregnancy and Parenthood explores the experiences of young women who become pregnant or parents while in, or soon after leaving, public care and examines the extent to which they were prepared for parenthood and supported once they became mothers. It also compares the views of a group of young people in public care who are neither pregnant or parents with those of a group living with their families. This book is essential reading for those working...
Fundamentals of Pharmacology for Midwives provides the reader with a fundamental understanding of the essentials of pharmacology associated with childbearing women, improving safety and care outcomes whilst ensuring the comfort of the mother. It is essential that midwifery students have a knowledge and an understanding of pharmacology, along with an ability to recognise the positive and opposing effects of medicines from conception to birth-including allergies and drug sensitivities, side effect...
Violence Against Women
by Paul Thomas Clements, Jennifer Pierce-Weeks, Karyn E. Holt, Angelo P. Giardino, and Soraya Seedat
Written by professionals in the fields of clinical service and research, Violence Against Women provides a broad perspective on the causes and consequences of intimate partner violence. It examines a wide range of relationships that may be affected by intimate partner violence and takes a culturally sensitive, international approach to issues underpinning family violence, dating violence, and the injuries children suffer when their caregivers perpetrate violence. Violence Against Women offers i...
Surviving and Thriving in Midwifery
Comprehensive Professional Midwifery Exam Preparation Guide
by Amanda Mann and Kerri Audette
Bodies that Birth puts birthing bodies at the centre of questions about contemporary birth politics, power, and agency. Arguing that the fleshy and embodied aspects of birth have been largely silenced in social science scholarship, Rachelle Chadwick uses an array of birth stories, from diverse race-class demographics, to explore the narrative entanglements between flesh, power, and sociomateriality in relation to birth. Adopting a unique theoretical framework incorporating new materialism, femi...
Why Sex Knowledge is of Paramount Importance to Girls and Women-Reasons Why a Misstep in a Girl Has More Serious Consequences than a Misstep in a Boy-The Place Love Occupies in Woman's Life-Woman's Physical Disabilities. All are agreed-I mean all who are capable of thinking and have given the subject some thought-that for the welfare of the race and for his own physical and mental welfare it is important that the boy be given some sex instruction. All are not agreed as to the character of the in...
Die renommierte Autorin und Oxytocinforscherin, Kerstin Uvnas Moberg, betrachtet in diesem Buch Nahe und Beziehung aus einem hoechst spannenden physiologischen Blickwinkel. Nahe, Koerperkontakt und Beziehung stimulieren die Ausschuttung von Oxytocin. Dieses "Hormon der Nahe" bewirkt Ruhe und Entspannung, baut Angst ab, verbessert unsere Wahrnehmung fur Beziehungssignale, erhoeht unser Vertrauen in andere Menschen und fuhrt insgesamt dazu, dass wir leistungsfahiger und gesunder sind. Die Heraus...
Psychologische Foerder- Und Interventionsprogramme Fur Das Kindes- Und Jugendalter
Der Markt der Trainings- und Foerderprogramme im Kindes- und Jugendbereich ist extrem unubersichtlich. Erziehungsberater, Therapeuten oder Schulpsychologen haben es schwer, im Dickicht der Angebote einen UEberblick zu gewinnen, gute von schlechten Verfahren zu unterscheiden oder herauszufinden, welche Verfahren fur die eigene Zielgruppe uberhaupt geeignet sind. Dieses Handbuch ist die Loesung! Denn erstmals bietet ein Buch einen kompletten UEberblick uber alle Problembereiche - von Aggressio...
Identifies the sources of behavioral and physiological changes attributed to a woman's hormone cycles, revealing a hidden adaptive intelligence in the body's hormones and how an awareness of protective hormonal activity can help women to make better-informed decisions.
The author of The Blue Cotton Gown recounts living free and naturally against all odds—and discovering her true calling as a midwife—in this deeply moving memoirIn her first, highly praised memoir, Patricia Harman told us the stories patients brought into her exam room, and her own story of struggling to help women as a nurse-midwife in medical practice with her husband—an OB/GYN—in Appalachia. Now, Patsy reaches back to the 1960s and 1970s, recounting how she learned to deliver babies and her y...
Women, Medicine, Ethics and the Law (Routledge Revivals)
This title was first published in 2002: A collection of articles focused on women within a general study of medicine, ethics and the law. Topics covered include: areas where the institutions of medicine, ethics and the law intersect in women's reproductive and sexual lives; the impact of legal policies and dominant ethical beliefs on many aspects of women's health; and the health practices and policies of bioethics and health law. The editors recognise that it is important not to lose sight of s...