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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Hup Lick Publishing (M) S/B
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9810576412
Author : Judith Richter
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : STANFORD:36105018324025
The new immunological contraceptives now under development are being hailed as a breakthrough in medical science and a solution to population growth in the South. They work by provoking an auto-immune response which tricks the body into attacking its own reproductive hormones as though they were some kind of infection. But preventing pregnancy is not like fighting a disease. Will these new contraceptives be reliable? Are they safe? Are the results reversible? Does their design encourage coercion and abuse? A public debate is urgently needed, this book argues, before immunological contraceptives become a 'fact of life' for women.
Author : Nada Logan Stotland
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Psychology
ISBN : UCAL:B4527336
Changing attitudes and social behavior as well as rapid technological progress are having great impact on women's reproductive health care. In addition to addressing the clinical implications of these new issues, this volume provides a useful and concise text for practitioners of obstetrics and gynecology. Because it deals with the ubiquitous emotional aspects of reproductive health care it will also be of interest to nonspecialists and interested lay readers.
Author : Institute of Medicine,Suzanne Wymelenberg
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1990-02-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309041362
By all indicators, the reproductive health of Americans has been deteriorating since 1980. Our nation is troubled by rates of teen pregnancies and newborn deaths that are worse than almost all others in the Western world. Science and Babies is a straightforward presentation of the major reproductive issues we face that suggests answers for the public. The book discusses how the clash of opinions on sex and family planning prevents us from making a national commitment to reproductive health; why people in the United States have fewer contraceptive choices than those in many other countries; what we need to do to improve social and medical services for teens and people living in poverty; how couples should "shop" for a fertility service and make consumer-wise decisions; and what we can expect in the futureâ€"featuring interesting accounts of potential scientific advances.
Author : Ken Banks
Publisher : Kogan Page Publishers
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780749475925
Social innovation and social entrepreneurship look for creative and affordable solutions to specific societal problems. Fuelled by the spread of the internet and the ubiquity of mobile phones, there are more people working to solve pressing social and environmental problems in the world today than ever before. Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation presents the journeys of pioneering - and often accidental - social innovators who, faced with a problem, used their courage, tenacity and creative thinking to find a solution. Using their own words to reflect upon their experiences, these cases do not gloss over the setbacks and the dead-ends social entrepreneurs can face. Instead, readers will gain a realistic insight into the challenges and an engaging look at the problem-solving mindset needed to overcome them. From a life-saving project to bring solar-powered lighting to midwives in Nigeria, to a news dissemination service that's grown from small beginnings to have a global impact, each case study draws out the lessons learnt by the innovators, providing guidance and advice for those looking to follow in their footsteps. Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation is an invaluable resource for social entrepreneurs and innovators looking for new ideas and insight into what really works - and what doesn't.
Author : Paul Van Look,Kristian Heggenhougen,Stella R. Quah
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-17
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780123850102
This volume brings together two areas of health that are among the foci of current development efforts, as articulated by the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), namely sexual and reproductive health (MDG 5: improve maternal health, target 2: achieve, by 2015, universal access to reproductive health); and Gender (MDG 3: promote gender equality and empower women). Few, if any, published books have dealt in a comprehensive way with public health aspects of these two strongly interrelated areas of health. Most published volumes devoted to sexual and reproductive health have a strong clinical focus, whereas books on gender tend to concentrate primarily on the socio-cultural and anthropological aspects of the subject. * Focuses on the relationship between sexual and reproductive behaviors and the resulting impact on populations and societies as a group * Provides a science-based approach to identifying appropriate response plans, adaptations, and mitigation steps for related behaviors *Explores the financial and societal impact of behavioral choices *Includes new preface specifically for this audience
Author : Robin E. Jensen
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780271078212
This book explores the arguments, appeals, and narratives that have defined the meaning of infertility in the modern history of the United States and Europe. Throughout the last century, the inability of women to conceive children has been explained by discrepant views: that women are individually culpable for their own reproductive health problems, or that they require the intervention of medical experts to correct abnormalities. Using doctor-patient correspondence, oral histories, and contemporaneous popular and scientific news coverage, Robin Jensen parses the often thin rhetorical divide between moralization and medicalization, revealing how dominating explanations for infertility have emerged from seemingly competing narratives. Her longitudinal account illustrates the ways in which old arguments and appeals do not disappear in the light of new information, but instead reemerge at subsequent, often seemingly disconnected moments to combine and contend with new assertions. Tracing the transformation of language surrounding infertility from “barrenness” to “(in)fertility,” this rhetorical analysis both explicates how language was and is used to establish the concept of infertility and shows the implications these rhetorical constructions continue to have for individuals and the societies in which they live.
Author : Laura Mamo
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2007-08-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822390220
Originally developed to help heterosexual couples, fertility treatments such as in vitro fertilization and sperm donation have provided lesbians with new methods for achieving pregnancy during the past two decades. Queering Reproduction is an important sociological analysis of lesbians’ use of these medical fertility treatments. Drawing on in-depth interviews with lesbians who have been or are seeking to become pregnant, Laura Mamo describes how reproduction has become an intensely medicalized process for lesbians, who are transformed into fertility patients not (or not only) because of their physical conditions but because of their sexual identities. Mamo argues that this medicalization of reproduction has begun to shape queer subjectivities in both productive and troubling ways, destabilizing the assumed link between heterosexuality and parenthood while also reinforcing traditional, heteronormative ideals about motherhood and the imperative to reproduce. Mamo provides an overview of a shift within some lesbian communities from low-tech methods of self-insemination to a reliance on outside medical intervention and fertility treatments. Reflecting on the issues facing lesbians who become parents through assisted reproductive technologies, Mamo explores questions about the legal rights of co-parents, concerns about the genetic risks of choosing an anonymous sperm donor, and the ways decisions to become parents affect sexual and political identities. In doing so, she investigates how lesbians navigate the medical system with its requisite range of fertility treatments, diagnostic categories, and treatment trajectories. Combining moving narratives and insightful analysis, Queering Reproduction reveals how medical technology reconfigures social formations, individual subjectivity, and notions of kinship.
Author : Alana Apfel
Publisher : Kairos
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1629631515
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Author : Marc Grau Grau,Mireia las Heras Maestro,Hannah Riley Bowles
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Culture
ISBN : 9783030756451
This aim of this open access book is to launch an international, cross-disciplinary conversation on fatherhood engagement. By integrating perspective from three sectors -- Health, Social Policy, and Work in Organizations -- the book offers a novel perspective on the benefits of engaged fatherhood for men, for families, and for gender equality. The chapters are crafted to engaged broad audiences, including policy makers and organizational leaders, healthcare practitioners and fellow scholars, as well as families and their loved ones.
Author : Olga B. A. van den Akker
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-23
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781119968191
This volume provides a comprehensive, up-to-date theoretical andempirical background to the psychology of reproductive health. Provides a life span perspective of the psychology ofreproductive health and its disorders, from menarche to menopauseand reproductive health in older age Focuses on issues of the individual's reproductive healthexperience, including reproduction, pregnancy, maternity, andbirth, as well as conditions such as PMDD, dysmenorrhea, and eventsincluding pregnancy failure, and abortion Acknowledges the wider social context with discussions ofpoverty, inequality, educational and economic status, age, andurban versus rural access Addresses life style related factors, human rights to choice,information and access, fertility control and reproductive healthregulation and health care services Illustrates topics with empirical data supported with tablesand figures
Author : Jena Pincott
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-11
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781439183359
Brain Candy for expectant parents! Pregnancy is an adventure. Lots of books tell you the basics—“the baby is the size of [insert fruit here].” But pregnant science writer Jena Pincott began to wonder just how a baby might tinker with her body—and vice versa—and chased down answers to the questions she wouldn’t ask her doctor, such as: • Does stress sharpen your baby’s mind—or dull it? • Can you predict your baby’s temperament? • Why are babies born in the darker months of the year more likely to grow up to be novelty-loving risk takers? • Are bossy, dominant women more likely to have boys? • How can the cells left behind by your baby affect you years later? This is a different kind of pregnancy book—thoughtful, fun, and filled with information you won’t find anywhere else.
Author : Roxanne Louiselle Parrott,Celeste Michelle Condit
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1996-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780761900573
The increased attention currently being paid to women's reproductive health issues has produced a corresponding interest in the role that communication plays in promoting better health care. Groundbreaking and comprehensive, this book is the first systematic examination of the major types and forms of messages about women's reproductive health - medical, social scientific and public - and the degree to which these messages compare with and contradict each other. Within the broad framework of communication, a range of women's health issues are examined in this book from political, historical, technological and feminist perspectives. The issues examined include: abortion; infertility; drug and alcohol use in pregnancy; childbirth; AIDS; menst
Author : Marcia Claire Inhorn,Frank van Balen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2002-05-30
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0520231082
These essays examine the global impact of infertility as a major reproductive health issue, one that has profoundly affected the lives of countless women and men. The contributors address a range of topics including how the deeply gendered nature of infertility sets the blame on women's shoulders.
Author : Betsy Hartmann
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781608467341
“Those involved in women’s health issues, Third World studies, and economic development should find food for thought” (Kirkus Reviews). This is an updated edition of the “influential study” (Publishers Weekly) of issues surrounding childbirth and the history of population control programs. Challenging conventional wisdom about overpopulation, and uncovering the deeper roots of poverty, environmental degradation, and gender inequalities, the author uses data and vivid case studies to explore how population control programs came to be promoted by powerful governments, foundations, and international agencies as an instrument of Cold War development and security policy. Mainly targeting poor women, these programs were designed to drive down birth rates as rapidly and cheaply as possible, with coercion often a matter of course. In the war on population growth, birth control was deployed as a weapon, rather than a tool of reproductive choice. Threaded throughout is the story of how international women’s health activists fought to reform population control and promote a new agenda of sexual and reproductive health and rights for all. While their efforts bore fruit, obstacles remain. On one side is the anti-choice movement that wants to deny women access not only to abortion but to most methods of contraception. On the other is a resurgent, well-funded population control lobby that often obscures its motives with the language of women’s empowerment. Despite declining birth rates worldwide—average global family size is now 2.5 children—overpopulation alarm is on the rise, tied now to the threats of climate change and terrorism. Reproductive Rights and Wrongs reveals how these developments are rooted in the longer history and politics of population control. In this book, a new generation of readers will find knowledge and inspiration for the ongoing struggle to achieve reproductive rights and social, environmental, and gender justice.
