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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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Quechua
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Just as the rivers of the Andes mountains twist and coil in a curious maze, so does the grave situation of Peruvian women's health care. Within the past decade, the Andean women in Peru have faced a massive sterilization campaign, exorbitant fines for homebirths, remnants of a deadly civil war, and the second highest maternal death rate in South America. Yet, as they have for centuries, the Quechua and Aymara people are fighting to preserve their...
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When experiencing health issues, going to the doctor should make you feel better. What happens when it makes you feel worse? In EmpowHERed Health: Reforming a Dismissive Health Care System, author S. Mayumi "Umi" Grigsby discusses the potential link between negative interactions with health professionals and health inequity with a focus on Black women in the US.
Spurred by her own experience with doctors who, for years, dismissed her pain, Grigsby...
4) The Zero-Cost Drug Solution: A Pathway to Free Prescriptions -Your Comprehensive Blueprint to Discov
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In today's healthcare landscape, countless individuals are burdened by the soaring costs of prescription medications. Many are forced to make the heart-wrenching decision between essential medications and other basic needs. The financial strain is real, and the need for a solution is urgent. Imagine the stress of watching medical bills pile up, knowing that your health or the health of a loved one is on the line. It's a situation no one should find...
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Ileostomy For Beginners is the definitive guide to living with an ileostomy.Fully illustrated and with clear instructions, you too can master the proven techniques. No other book tackles the key issues that need to be addressed in order to achieve comfort in your daily life.Ileostomy For Beginners is essential reading for those with an ileostomy or are about to have one.
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How often do you hear a doctor saying doctors need to be more accountable, Medicare needs more support and family medicine deserves more respect? Dissident Doctor bristles with refreshingly frank criticisms from inside the health sector, and its author is not just any doctor but a distinguished scientific researcher, veteran medical administrator, Professor Emeritus, recipient of the Order of Canada and lifelong gadfly. In Dissident Doctor, Michael...
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Many StarkTape kinesiology tape applications may look similar, but the taping can be applied for different purposes. For example, a taping for muscle tightness may look like a taping for muscle weakness. The way how tape is applied can determine how it works on the soft tissues. It is very important to read the directions of each of the taping methods carefully before applying the tape. A correctly taping application can enhance the therapeutic benefits.
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Dying Inside, Loving Your True Skin reveals is a powerful, inspirational wellness empowerment book that calls an urgent attention to the unpopular, hidden, detrimental, toxic chemicals found in some skin bleaching products. The inordinate desire to enhance even skin tone or to attain a lighter skin color with the intention of being, perceived as more, beautiful has blinded many to the deleterious heath consequences of skin lightening. The prolong...
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Même si les ouvrages de référence sur la grossesse ne manquent pas, dans Le cerveau de mes 9 mois, Isabelle Brodin prend le parti d'aborder un cté plus psychologique de ce processus, tout en légèreté, humour, et doté d'une relative profondeur à certains égards. Si la force du mental sur l'aspect physique de notre organisme n'est plus à démontrer, l'un des enjeux serait certainement de mieux connaître son mode à pensée afin de vivre...
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An explosive book that exposes the truth about breast cancer screening. For decades, women have been told that mammograms save lives. Yet many scientists say that this is in fact not true. Conspiracy of Hope reveals how breast cancer screening was introduced in the US before there was any good evidence it made any difference, and an unfounded belief in early detection caught on quickly in Canada and other developed countries. Today the evidence is...
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Los adenomas hipofisarios están presentes en hasta un 20% en la población general, siendo principalmente benignos y asintomáticos. El objetivo General de este trabajo de investigación ha sido analizar una aproximación de las incidencias de las alteraciones endocrinas a causa de adenomas hipofisarios en los pacientes. Metodológicamente se realizó un estudio descriptivo. Se recolectaron datos de historias clínicas con diagnósticos definitivos...
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For decades, medicine saw men and women as essentially the same physically except in the area of reproduction. However, a new and groundbreaking science of gender-specific medicine has discovered astonishing distinctions between male and female bodies. From the thickness of our skin to the signs of a heart attack to ways we metabolize drugs, the sexes have significant physiological differences. But, what do these differences mean to you and your doctor?...
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The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the global world but impacted women with children and careers disproportionately. The social, familial, and professional strains of this crisis birthed with it the opportunity to reflect on the values, expectations, lifestyle, and priorities that have defined motherhood. This book uplifts the shared consciousness of motherhood; the common veil that transcends time, region, and boundary. Part contemporary anthology,...
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For readers of Invisible Women, a powerful look at how our culture treats-or mistreats-the health concerns of women.
In Pain and Prejudice, acclaimed investigative reporter Gabrielle Jackson takes readers behind the scenes of doctor's offices, pharmaceutical companies, and research labs to show that-at nearly every level of healthcare-men's health claims are treated as default, whereas women's are often viewed as a-typical, exaggerated, and even completely...
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A comedian and a surgeon write a book together...
That might sound like the first line of a joke, but for anyone who's "of a certain age," they know that getting older is no laughing matter.
The Best Is Yet to Come is a pitch-perfect blend of Whoopi Goldberg's no-holds-barred humor, paired with the expert, sage wisdom of her coauthor, trailblazing orthopedic surgeon M.E. Hecht, MD.
Readers will encounter a broad range of topics, including but not...
16) Sex, Lies, and Pharmaceuticals: How Drug Companies Plan to Profit from Female Sexual Dysfunction
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Against a backdrop of virtual intercourse, online porn, and burgeoning Viagra sales, Sex, Lies, and Pharmaceuticals reveals how women's sexual difficulties are being repackaged as symptoms of a new disorder. In this compelling book, award-winning journalist Ray Moynihan teams up with drug assessment specialist Barbara Mintzes to investigate the creation of female sexual dysfunction or FSD, and the marketing machine that promises to "cure" it. The...
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DON'T MAKE ANOTHER HEALTHCARE DECISION WITHOUT READING THIS BOOK
“If men had cramps, they'd have cured this by now...”
“I told my doctors about my pain for years, but they told me it was all in my head...”
“My doctor removed my IUD without anesthesia because 'there aren't any nerve endings in there.' Boy, was he wrong!”
These and countless other comments from women who've suffered at the hands of the healthcare industry are frighteningly...
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Lorena Junco Margain, passionate art collector, devoted wife, and mother-is already shaken after fleeing Mexico with her family while pregnant due to concerns for their safety. Then she learns she has a tumor on her adrenal gland. Having long experienced unexplained symptoms that neither medications nor holistic or Ayurvedic treatments have helped, she embraces the news with tears of relief: with a simple surgery, she can regain her strength and joyful...
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Maternal health outcomes are a key focus of global health initiatives. In Delivering Health, author Lydia Z. Dixon uncovers the ways such outcomes have been shaped by broader historical, political, and social factors in Mexico, through the perspectives of those who are at the front lines fighting for change: midwives.
Midwives have long been marginalized in Mexico as remnants of the country's precolonial past, yet Dixon shows how they are now strategically...
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Infertility is one of the most painful and painfully common of human experiences. One in six couples will experience fertility challenges when they attempt to get pregnant, and while more and more people have spoken openly about infertility in recent years, the experience can still be incredibly isolating.
But none of us is alone in our struggles. In fact, infertility is a universal part of the human experience that is mentioned in the earliest...
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