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Author
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.
4) Awakenings
Author
Language
English
Description
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.
5) Still born
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"Alina and Laura are independent and career-driven women in their mid-thirties, neither of whom have built their future around the prospect of a family. Laura is so determined not to become a mother that she has taken the drastic decision to have her tubes tied. But when she announces this to her friend, she learns that Alina has made the opposite decision and is preparing to have a child of her own. Alina's pregnancy shakes the women's lives, first...
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
Author
Publisher
Harvard Common Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Author
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.
Author
Publisher
Ediciones Obelisco
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
A partir de las cocinas de países donde las mujeres comen menos alimentos procesados y más plantas y, por lo tanto, experimentan menos síntomas de la menopausia (sofocos, aumento de peso, confusión mental, irritabilidad), la Dra. Anna Cabeca ofrece más de 125 recetas deliciosas y satisfactorias que destacan los alimentos científicamente. Se ha demostrado que cura, equilibra y mantiene el cuerpo en un modo desintoxicante y quemagrasas durante...
Author
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.--
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
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....
Author
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...
16) La hija única
Author
Series
Narrativas hispánicas volume 652
Publisher
Editorial Anagrama
Pub. Date
septiembre 2020.
Language
Español
Description
"Poco después de cumplir los ocho meses de embarazo, a Alina le anuncian que su hija no podrá sobrevivir al nacimiento. Ella y su compañero emprenden entonces un doloroso pero también sorprendente proceso de aceptación y duelo. Ese último mes de gestación se convierte para ellos en una extraña oportunidad para conocer a esa hija a la que tanto trabajo les cuesta renunciar. Laura, la gran amiga de Alina, refiere el conflicto de esta pareja,...
Author
Publisher
Rodale
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"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...
18) Birth shock: how to recover from birth trauma - why at least you've got a healthy baby isn't enough
Author
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...
Author
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,...
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