Être mère est un bonheur immense, mais c’est aussi une situation « à risque » qui expose les femmes à une intense fatigue physique et émotionnelle : haut niveau de responsabilité 24 heures sur 24 et 365 jours par an, multitude de stress, partage des tâches pas toujours équitable, absence de reconnaissance, etc.
La naissance de Louise Brown en Angleterre en 1978, puis celle d'Amandine en France ont représenté pour des millions de couples stériles un symbole d'espoir.
Voici le premier ouvrage scientifique et accessible sur l’endométriose, cette maladie spécifiquement féminine, encore trop mal connue des patientes, mais aussi du corps médical.
Extrait : "L'histoire de la Médecine — pour répondre à l'état d'esprit actuel — ne peut plus être le récit des systèmes éphémères qui ont tour à tour gouverné l'art médical et qui représentent plutôt le tableau des variations doctrinales que celui de l'évolution progressive de la science.
L'hysterectomie est un acte chirurgical qui consiste a enlever tout ou une partie de l'uterus ; c'est, en France, avec pres de 80 000 femmes operees chaque annee, une des interventions gynecologiques les plus pratiquees.
Violence Against Women 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.
512 pages, 238 images, with 24 contributorsSexual assault remains one of the most problematic and controversial issues in law, medicine, and in society at large.
1435 pages, 1830 images, 69 contributors Sexual Assault: Victimization Across the Life Span contains case studies from experts in the field, including photos of STIs, injuries in progressive stages of healing, and similar injuries in different age groups.
775 pages, 1735 images, 21 contributorsSexual Assault Victimization Across the Life Span: A Color Atlas contains more than 1700 photographs taken in forensic examinations conducted by teams of medical practitioners and investigative personnel.
660 pages, 95 images, 53 contributorsSexual Assault Victimization Across the Life Span: A Clinical Guide offers a broad array of information for sexual assault intervention, from the fundamentals of physical evaluation and investigation to in-depth guides to the unique challenges presented by cases of sexual assault.
440 pages, 603 images, with 31 contributorsMedical Response to Child Sexual Abuse: A Resource for Professionals Working with Children and Families features a completely pediatric focus as a part of the Sexual Assault line and adds an illustrative multimedia component.
The Happy Vagina shines a light on both the unique and sometimes awkward facts about everything gynaecological, creating an open dialogue for all sexes and generations.
This full-colour book provides midwives with highly practical, readily accessible information on the wide range of infections affecting pregnancy and childbirth.
This full-colour book provides midwives with highly practical, readily accessible information on the wide range of infections affecting pregnancy and childbirth.
The medical specialty of paediatric gastroenterology is focused on problems and disorders within the gastrointestinal tract, liver and pancreas of children from infancy until age eighteen.
Care for Children Born Small for Gestational Age is a comprehensive handbook that serves to synthesize the extensive recent literature in the area to provide a practical resource aimed at a wide range of healthcare professionals, including obstetricians, midwives, neonatologists, and primary care physicians.
Modelled on the current MRCOG syllabus, Get Through MRCOG Part 2: EMQs is designed to test candidates' theoretical and practical knowledge of obstetrics and gynaecology.
'Offering wisdom and understanding, written with sensitivity, this book has much practical help within its pages for a loss like that feels like few others.
Among the many recent advances in assisted reproduction therapies (ART), improved technologies for identifying viable oocytes, sperm, and embryos are of primary importance.
A core text from the renowned Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, this volume covers the latest developments in both open and minimally invasive surgery.
First Prize, BMA Medical Book Awards 2013Breast cancers are now detected earlier and are thus more likely to be confined to the breast itself and regional nodes.
Recent developments with novel systemic drugs, palliative surgical techniques and diagnostic imaging have given hope for the treatment of patients whose breast cancer has spread beyond its primary tumour.
Stillbirth remains a sufficiently frequent outcome of pregnancy to pose great problems for clinicians, who have to treat extremely distressed patients.
