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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...

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...

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...

Conflict resolution and promotion of regional cooperation in South Asia has assumed a new urgency in the aftermath of the nuclear tests by India and Pakistan in 1998, and underlined by the outbreak of fighting in Kargil in 1999, full mobilization on the border during most of 2002, and continued low-intensity warfare and terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir. The stability of nuclear deterrence between the two countries is therefore a matter of great urgency and has found a place on the scholarly agenda...

This book addresses the development of our understanding of the abuse and neglect in the lives of children with disabilities. Disabilities in childhood uniquely dispose children for their abuse and neglect. Additionally, abuse and neglect dispose children for disabilities. The care and education of children with disabilities requires unique knowledge and skills and so does the consideration of their abuse and neglect. This book is based on data generated from an analysis of cases involving the a...

Since the development of modern medicine, men have become increasingly involved in childbearing as obstetricians and, more recently, as fathers. This book argues that the beneficial contribution of men has been taken for granted. Certain changes to childbearing practice have resulted, which, together with men's involvement, have been encouraged without any reference to evidence and without adequate opportunity for reflection.Considering the findings of recent research and wider literature, and u...

In recent years, breastfeeding has been prominently in the public eye in relation to debates on issues ranging from parental leave policies, worka'family balance, public decency, the safety of our food supply, and public health concerns such as health care costs and the obesity "epidemic." Breastfeeding has officially been considered "the one best way" for feeding infants for the past 150 years of Canadian history. This book examines the history and evolution of breastfeeding policies and practi...

Winner of the British Medical Association Popular Medicine Book AwardShortlisted for the British Psychological Society Book Award 2021 'Illuminating and consoling' JULIA SAMUEL, author of GRIEF WORKS Though approximately one in four pregnancies ends in miscarriage, pregnancy loss remains a rarely talked about, under-researched, and largely misunderstood area of women's health. This award-winning book aims to help break that silence. With empathy, warmth and honesty, psychotherapist Julia Bueno...

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...

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...