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Pendle Hill Young Fleetwood Shuttleworth is with child again. As the mistress of Gawthorpe Hall, she is anxious to provide her husband with an heir. But none of her previous pregnancies have come to term. Then she discovers a hidden letter from her physician that warns her husband that she will not survive another pregnancy. Distraught over the frightening revelation, Fleetwood wanders the woods of Pendle Hill, where she meets a young local woman...
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Publisher
Rodale
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Outlines new theories about illness and recovery based on the experiences of patients with chronic pain whose medical exams reveal no clear sources, exploring the theory that disease can be a cumulative effect of inflammation-triggering traumas.
6) Awakenings
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English
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Describes the author's work with institutionalized patients at Mount Carmel Hospital and the dramatic effects of the drug L-DOPA on twenty patients suffering from encephalitic Parkinsonism.
Author
Publisher
[Kinsey Phifer?]
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Childbirth is more than just a one time event. This collection of short stories explores the deep impact pregnancy and childbirth have on our emotions and parenting. Over 100 mothers shared their experiences with pregnancy, childbirth, NICU, grief, loss and postpartum through anonymous surveys and interviews. The author ends the book by sharing her own unique stories with two breech babies and what inspired her to become a doula. Every story is different...
8) The birth partner: a complete guide to childbirth for dads, doulas, and all other labor companions
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Publisher
Harvard Common Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Publisher
McGraw-Hill
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"'The acid alkaline balance diet promotes a sensible food-combination program along with alternative therapies to balance the positively charged and negatively charged acidic particles in the body. This simple plan can help cure a wide range of medical problems, including acid reflux, arthritis, heart disease, lung disorders, kidney disease, and obesity" --P. [4] of cover.
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Publisher
HarperOne, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Flat-lining for thirty-seven seconds after giving birth to her second child, the author, after remaining unconscious for more than two days and spending weeks in recovery, recounts details of her experience.--
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Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
Description
"A doctor's revelatory account of pregnancy and the complexity of reproductive life-and everything we lose when we don't speak honestly about women's health. "My work offers a window into the darkest and lightest corners of people's lives, into the extremes of human experience," writes Dr. Chavi Eve Karkowsky in High Risk, her timely and unflinching account of working in maternal-fetal medicine-that branch of medicine that concerns high-risk pregnancies....
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Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"In 1994, Peter J. Hotez's nineteen-month-old daughter, Rachel, was diagnosed with autism. Dr. Hotez, a pediatrician-scientist who develops vaccines for neglected tropical diseases affecting the world's poorest people, became troubled by the decades-long rise of the influential anti-vaccine community and their inescapable narrative around childhood vaccines and autism. The alleged link between the two was first espoused in a fraudulent scientific...
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Rodale
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"Drawing from the cuisines of countries where women eat fewer processed foods and more plants and therefore experience fewer menopausal symptoms (hot flashes, weight gain, brain fog, irritability), Dr. Anna Cabeca offers 125+ delicious and satisfying recipes that highlight the foods scientifically proven to heal, balance, and keep the body in a fat-burning, detoxifying mode all day long. She also provides five unique eating plans allowing readers...
16) Birth shock: how to recover from birth trauma - why at least you've got a healthy baby isn't enough
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Publisher
Pinter & Martin
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Perhaps you had a difficult birth. Hopefully, you have a healthy baby. That, after all, is the most important thing. Or is it? So why are you struggling to move on? Why do you keep thinking about the birth or replaying it in your mind? Why do you feel guilty when other people say "at least you have a healthy baby"? In Birth Shock, perinatal clinical psychologist Mia Scotland explains clearly what can be harmful about birth, how birth trauma can affect...
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Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Four months into the coronavirus pandemic, as the death count surged, the FDA made a risky decision: it approved an anti-malarial drug as a treatment for coronavirus, despite limited data on its efficacy or side effects. A month later, the FDA withdrew its recommendation, but by then, the damage had been done. The drug was ineffective and sometimes even lethal. The mistake was hardly a one-off. As virologist Paul. A. Offit shows in You Bet Your Life,...
19) Umbrella
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Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2013], c2012
Language
English
Description
A psychiatrist at a mental hospital in a London suburb, Zachary Busner investigates a group of unconscious patients who exhibit a peculiar type of physical tic and stumbles upon a miracle drug that could save them, but the hospital has other, darker ideas.
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Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
As a nation, we are facing an unprecedented opioid crisis that is killing more than 65,000 people a year. It is destroying our families and decimating our neighborhoods. And it is costing us billions. As more and more people are dealing with chronic pain, and as the opioid crisis reaches epic proportions, alternative approaches to understanding pain and its management are necessary. Here, Dr. Akhtar Purvez, a seasoned researcher, pain specialist,...
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