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DES Daughters, Embodied Knowledge, and the Transformation of Women’s Health Politics in the Late Twentieth Century
- ISBN13: 9781592139194
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- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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From the 1940s to the 1970s, millions of women were exposed prenatally to the synthetic estrogen DES, a ‘wonder drug’ intended to prevent miscarriages. However, DES actually had damaging consequences for the women born from DES mothers. The ‘DES daughters’ as they are known, were found to have a rare form of vaginal cancer or were infertile. They were also at risk for miscarriages, stillbirths, and ectopic pregnancies. In “DES Daughters”, Susan Bell recounts the exp… More >>
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Women’s health: report of the Public Health Service Task Force on Women’s Health Issues
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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library’s large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the us… More >>
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Maternity, Newborn, and Women’s Health Nursing: Comprehensive Care Across the Life Span
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This new book will be a core text for undergraduate Maternity/Newborn courses. It also will work for courses emphasizing Women’s Health across the lifespan. Coverage includes core content on preconception, pregnancy, labor, birth, and postpartum. In addition, the text focuses on important topics throughout a woman’s life: health promotion, nutrition, medical issues, psychosocial issues, sexuality, family, fertility control and issues, menopause, and aging. While oth… More >>
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Women and Mental Health: New Directions for Change
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Here is an illuminating feminist appraisal of the problems of sex differences and sexist treatment of women’s mental health problems by state mental health agencies. In this provocative volume, prominent feminist scholars and practitioners provide insights into the problems of biased treatment of women and provide both factual evidence of that bias and effective, viable solutions for change. The editors are members of the Women’s Task Force of the Department of Ment… More >>
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Gender, Race, Class and Health: Intersectional Approaches
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Gender, Race, Class, and Health examines relationships between economic structures, race, culture, and gender, and their combined influence on health. The authors systematically apply social and behavioral science to inspect how these dimensions intersect to influence health and health care in the United States. This examination brings into sharp focus the potential for influencing policy to improve health through a more complete understanding of the structural natu… More >>
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