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Basic Bioethics eBook Series

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  • Preterm Babies, Fetal Patients, and Childbearing Choices

    by John D. Lantos, Diane S. Lauderdale ...
    Series series Basic Bioethics
    Why preterm birth rates in the United States remain high even as access to prenatal care has improved and infant mortality has steadily dropped.The United States has one of the highest rates of premature birth of any industrialized nation: 11.5%, nearly twice the rate of many European countries. In this book, John Lantos and Diane Lauderdale examine why the rate of preterm birth in the United ... Read more

    $33.59 CAD

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    Making People Sick in the Pursuit of Health

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  • Our Bodies, Ourselves

    by Boston Women's Health Book Collective, Judy Norsigian ...
    Series series A Bestselling Health Guide
    THE BESTSELLING WOMEN’S HEALTH CLASSIC—INFORMING AND INSPIRING WOMEN ACROSS GENERATIONSHailed by The New York Times as a “feminist classic,” this comprehensive guide to all aspects of women’s sexuality and reproductive health—including menopause, birth control, childbirth, sexual health, sexual orientation, gender identity, mental health, and overall wellbeing—changed the women’s health movement ... Read more

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  • Seeking Sickness

    Medical Screening and the Misguided Hunt for Disease

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    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth

    by Henci Goer ...
    As an intelligent woman, you are probably used to learning as much as you can before making major decisions. But when it comes to one of the most important decisions of your life--how you will give birth-it is hard to gather accurate, unbiased information. Surprisingly, much of the research does not support common medical opinion and practice.Birth activist Henci Goer gives clear, concise ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Anti-D Explained

    by Sara Wickham ...
    Fifty years ago, we learned that giving a medicine called Anti-D to childbearing women with rhesus negative blood could help protect their future babies from an age-old disease. But the same research which showed this also raised some tantalising questions, to which we still don't know all the answers.Today, rhesus negative women are offered an injection of Anti-D at several points during their ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Immune System

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Paul Klenerman ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
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    by Jane Runzheimer, Linda Johnson Larsen ...
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    Edited by Louise Kuo Habakus, Mary Holland, Kim Mack Rosenberg ...
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    Series Book 2 - Midwifery Essentials
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  • Childbirth in the Age of Plastics

    by Michel Odent ...
    Since the middle of the twentieth century, the development of plastics has been one of the main factors influencing the history of medicine. For example, an anaesthesiologist was formerly an expert in delivering drugs by inhalation. Today, this expert delivers drugs through plastic catheters, in particular via intravenous and epidural routes. Where obstetrics is concerned, a typical modern woman ... Read more

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