More women in the United States undergo hysterectomies than in any other country. All women who have had or are planning to have this surgery need a readable and sympathetic guide to explain what is involved in a hysterectomy and what can be done instead of surgery. This book provides that guidance. Based on new research findings, the second edition of this widely read and extremely popular book dispels myths about the surgery, describes what women can expect if they undergo it, and discusses the alternatives. It answers questions about why and when women need to have hysterectomies, who should make the decision, the different types of hysterectomies, and what the dangers are. It addresses sexual and emotional problems that may arise after surgery, explaining, for instance, how the fear that the operation will sexually alter a woman is common yet unfounded. Wide-ranging, and lucid, Hysterectomy: Advances and New Options closes with a useful section answering questions that are often asked before, during or after treatment. After reading this accessible and sensitive book, women will be equipped to make informed decisions about the operation and its alternatives.

Hysterectomy: New Options and Advances

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Dennerstein, Lorraine

Westmore, Ann

Wood, Carl

Women's Health

Oxford University Press

This classic work has helped millions of women around the world to achieve healthy, natural fertility control, and also to tune into the rythms of their bodies. The Billings Method can be as effective as the Pill, but has no harmful side effects. Observing the signals of fertility described by Dr. Billings, women can avoid or achieve pregnancy. This is a clear guide for women whose cycles are regular or irregular, who are coming off the Pill, breastfeeding a baby or approaching the menopause. Whatever her views on contraception, this is knowledge of her body that every woman ought to have.

The Billings Method: Controlling Fertility without Drugs or Devices

Billings, Evelyn

Parenting & Relationships

Life Cycle Books

In 1948, there was no medication for bipolar illness. Sufferers from the illness would live their lives—if they survived—in and out of asylums accumulating life's wreckage around them. But late in 1948 that changed, when an Australian doctor, John Cade, discovered a treatment that has become the gold standard for bipolar illness—lithium. John Cade changed the course of medicine with his discovery of lithium; yet today most doctors have never heard of his name. His discovery has stopped more people from committing suicide than a thousand help lines, yet few counselors know of him. And it has saved hundreds of billions of dollars in health care costs—enough to rival a nation's economy—but you can bet that no politician has the slightest idea of who John Cade was. Lithium is the penicillin story of mental health; the first effective medication discovered for the treatment of a mental illness; and a great story in the history of mental health.

Finding Sanity: John Cade, Lithium and the Taming of Bipolar Disorder

Biographies & Memoirs

de Moore, Greg

Professionals & Academics

Allen& Unwin

En este importante y difundido libro dos especialistas en la materia describen la forma en que se puede controlar naturalmente la fertilidad mediante un método confiable, seguro, y sano, sin los efectos colaterales de las píldoras y otros métodos. La investigación científica ha probado que la mujer puede detectar claramente las fases biológicas de la ovulación. A partir de allí, la doctora Evelyn Billings de la Universidad de Melbourne desarrolló junto con su marido el método que ha dado fama a su nombre en el mundo entero. Constituye un aporte invalorable para aquellas parejas interesadas en un método contraceptivo natural y aceptado por la Iglesia Católica. Aplicable en cualquier momento de la vida reproductiva de las mujeres, incluidas la lactancia y la premenopausia, sus indicaciones también pueden ser utilizadas para lograr un embarazo deseado, o para detectar precozmente posibles irregularidades del ciclo menstrual. La regulación natural de la fertilidad no sólo libera a la mujer de los efectos perniciosos de otros contraceptivos sino que promueve el compromiso mutuo de la pareja en una efectiva planificación familiar.

Metodo billings

Gedisa

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