Cultural Safety and Social Justice in Primary, Sexual, and Reproductive Healthcare
Provides a framework for delivering culturally safe clinical care to LGBTQIA populations filtered through the lens of racial, economic, and reproductive justice. The book focuses on the social context in which we live, one where multiple historical processes of oppression continue to manifest as injustices in the health care setting and beyond.
This comics anthology delves deeply into the messy and often taboo subject of human reproduction. Featuring work by luminaries such as Carol Tyler, Alison Bechdel, and Joyce Farmer, Graphic Reproduction is an illustrated challenge to dominant cultural narratives about conception, pregnancy, and childbirth.
In From Hysteria to Hormones, Amy Koerber examines the rhetorical activity that preceded the early twentieth-century emergence of the word hormone and the impact of this word on expert understandings of women's health.
Shortly after Ernest Henry Starling coined the term hormone in 1905, hormones began to provide a ......
This Atlas offers concrete diagnostic guidance for anatomic pathologists who are required to correctly identify cervical disease in cytology. It not only illustrates the cytomorphology of cervical specimens, but specifically presents and contrasts common problem areas that can lead to erroneous interpretation. Clearly and concisely written by ......
Written by many of the world's leading lactation experts, the Textbook of Human Lactation incorporates evidence-based scientific knowledge to address key topics of importance in breastfeeding, such as Anatomy and Biochemistry, Immunobiology, Breastfeeding Management in Infant and Mother, Maternal and Infant Nutrition, and Medications and ......
Each year, more and more Americans travel out of the country seeking low cost medical treatments abroad, including fertility treatments such as in vitro fertilization (IVF). As the lower middle classes of the United States have been priced out of an expensive privatized "baby business," the Czech Republic has emerged as a central hub of fertility ......
Theory, Research, Policy, and Practice for Health Care Practitioners
Written in response to the ever-evolving science within the field of Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART), this book provides insight about issues and perspectives surrounding contemporary family formation that involve advanced fertility and infertility treatments.
A Clinician's Guide to Psychology, Legislation, Politics, and Competency
Takes a look at the political and psychological possibilities and necessity for abortion counseling. This book tackles both sides of this issue to reach an understanding of what women face when they make this choice. It helps understand emotional and cognitive competencies of women and teenage girls facing the decision to terminate a pregnancy.
