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Where Women Have no Doctor - A health guide for Women
by A. August Burns, Ronnie Lovich, Jane Maxwell, and Katharine Shapiro
596 pages, illustrated
First edition: June 1997. Third revised printing: June 2006.
English ed. ISBN13: 978-0-942364-25-5. ISBN10: 0-942364-25-2
Where Women Have no Doctor, a health guide for women, combines self-help medical information with an understanding of the ways poverty, discrimination and cultural beliefs limit women's health and access to care. Developed with community-based groups and medical experts from more than 30 countries,
Where Women Have No Doctor is an essential resource for any woman who wants to improve her health, and for health workers who want more information about the problems that affect only women or that affect women differently from men. The book includes information on the use of antiretroviral drugs and preventing mother-to-child transmission, treatment of sexually transmitted infections, family planning, TB, care for women who have had abortions, and medicines.
Topics covered include:
- Ways to stay healthy
- Pregnancy, birth, and breastfeeding
- Health concerns of women with disabilities, girls, older women and refugees
- Sexual health, HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted infections
- The use of medicines in women's health
- Mental health
- The politics of women's health
- Rape and other violence against women
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CONTENTS:
- How to use this book
- Chapter 1: Women’s health is a community issue
- Chapter 2: Solving health problems
- Chapter 3: The medical system
- Chapter 4: Understanding our bodies
- Chapter 5: Health concerns of girls
- Chapter 6: Pregnancy and childbirth
- Chapter 7: Breastfeeding
- Chapter 8: Growing older
- Chapter 9: Women with disabilities
- Chapter 10: Staying healthy
- Chapter 11: Eating for good health
- Chapter 12: Sexual health
- Chapter 13: Family planning
- Chapter 14: Infertility
- Chapter 15: Abortion and Complications of abortion
- Chapter 16: Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) and other infections of the genitals
- Chapter 17: AIDS
- Chapter 18: Violence against women
- Chapter 19: Rape and sexual Assault
- Chapter 20: Sex workers
- Chapter 21: Pain in the lower abdomen
- Chapter 22: Abnormal bleeding from the vagina
- Chapter 23: Problems of the urine system
- Chapter 24: Cancer and growths
- Chapter 25: Tuberculosis
- Chapter 26: Work
- Chapter 27: Mental health
- Chapter 28: Alcohol and other drugs
- Chapter 29: Refugees and other drugs
- Chapter 30: Female circumcision
- Chapter 31: Medicine and women’s health
- Table of medicines
- Health care skills
