Planned Parenthood Women S Health Encyclopedia

An authoritative reference from the most trusted name in women's health care. It provides complete information on health care and medicine, articles on complex women's health issues, and resources for women's health clinics, organizations and hospitals throughout the country. Based on 80 years years of experience providing preventive care information, this guide gives women the knowledge they need to be healthy and stay healthy. Illustrations. NPR sponsorship.

The Planned Parenthood® Women's Health Encyclopedia is the authoritative reference from America's most trusted name in women's health. This groundbreaking resource offers crucial health information from Planned Parenthood, the largest provider of women's health services in the nation. Designed to provide women with all the information they need to negotiate the medical system, The Planned Parenthood® Women's Health Encyclopedia provides accessible information on everything from choosing a gynecologist to preventing osteoporosis, from choosing birth control to coping with PMS, from dealing with depression to learning more about the diagnosis and treatment of breast and ovarian cancers. Alphabetically arranged and extensively cross-referenced, this guide covers women's health from medical and holistic perspectives, discussing physical and emotional issues and providing preventative and diagnostic information, treatments, and alternatives. In order to offer women the knowledge to make the most informed decisions about their own health, The Planned Parenthood ® Women's Health Encyclopedia also includes differing viewpoints on controversial health issues. Throughout the text are evaluation exercises, charts, interactive questionnaires, and survival strategies to help every woman cope with demands, solve problems, make choices, and get the most out of her life. For more information on a specific topic, most sections conclude with a list of organizations throughout the country that offer specialized services related to women's health. AppendiCes include a listing of medical abbreviations, a glossary of medical tests, and a recommended reading list. Line for line, The Planned Parenthood® Women's Health Encyclopedia is the premier publication for helping women feel better, stay healthy, and live longer. Planned Parenthood affiliates operate nearly 1,000 health centers nationwide. Its national headquarters is located in New York City.

Although there are many reference guides to diseases, symptoms, and treatment for health problems of women, there is no comprehensive source for the social, political, economic and ethical issues that affect women's health decisions. The Encyclopedia of Women's Health Issues provides valuable information on over 200 topics, including the issues and history surrounding diseases and medical procedures faced by women; health concerns of different ethnic groups of women; information on organizations and programs that deal with women's health; profiles on the people who have pioneered women's health services and information; and legal decisions related to women's health. An extensive bibliography and guides to good Web sites and organizations give users additional helpful resources. Among the features and benefits of this reference are Charts and tables that present helpful facts and statistics Contacts for Web sites and organizations that provide access to information about women's health issues--much of it free Coverage of the issues, not just the diseases, critical to women's healthcare Provides both basic information and guidance for further reading and research

Edited by a noted scholar of health and sexuality, Encyclopedia of Birth Control is a complete report on the historical development and efficacy of contraceptive practices around the world, both past and present. Without contraception, a healthy, sexually active woman will give birth to about 15 children and over her life span, spend most of her reproductive years either pregnant or nursing a newborn infant. So controlling fertility has preoccupied women—and often their husbands—since at least 1000 B.C. In this comprehensive reference, readers can explore the history of birth control from a variety of perspectives: anthropological, biological, economic, feminist, medical, political, and psychological. From wet nurses to chastity belts, from animal-dung contraceptives to the Dalkon Shield, readers will learn how women have attempted birth control, contraception, and abortion throughout history and throughout the world. Readers will also discover why opposition to birth control was so fierce early in the 20th century that many American women and men were jailed for disseminating information on avoiding pregnancy, and why family planning remains hotly controversial almost a century later.

Focusing primarily on the late-20th-century US, this encyclopedia further develops information in existing reference works on birth control, abortion, and women's rights. Multiparagraph to multipage articles consider not only laws, court cases, political attitudes, technological advances, and prominent activists and organizations, but also experiences of various racial, ethnic, age, class, ability, and religious groups concerning issues related to reproduction. A substantial introduction provides an overview of current ethical, legal, and political issues.

This is an important historical period in which to develop communication models aimed at creating opportunities for citizens to find a voice for new experiences and social concerns. Such basic social problems as inequality, poverty, and discrimination pose a constant challenge to policies that serve the health and income needs of children, families, people with disabilities, and the elderly. Important changes both in individual values and civic life are occurring in the United States and in many other nations. Recent trends such as the globalization of commerce and consumer values, the speed and personalization of communication technologies, and an economic realignment of industrial and information-based economies are often regarded as negative. Yet there are many signs - from the WTO experience in Seattle to the rise of global activism aimed at making biotechnology accountable - that new forms of citizenship, politics, and public engagement are emerging. The Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice presents a comprehensive overview of the field with topics of varying dimensions, breadth, and length. This three-volume Encyclopedia is designed for readers to understand the topics, concepts, and ideas that motivate and shape the fields of activism, civil engagement, and social justice and includes biographies of the major thinkers and leaders who have influenced and continue to influence the study of activism. Key Features Offers multidisciplinary perspectives with contributions from the fields of education, communication studies, political science, leadership studies, social work, social welfare, environmental studies, health care, social psychology, and sociology Provides an easily recognizable approach to topics, ideas, persons, and concepts based on alphabetical and biographical listings in civil engagement, social justice, and activism Addresses both small-scale social justice concepts and more large-scale issues Includes biography pieces indicating the concepts, ideas, or legacies of individuals and groups who have influenced current practice and thinking such as John Stuart Mill, Rachel Carson, Mother Jones, Martin Luther King, Jr., Karl Marx, Mohandas Gandhi, Nelson and Winnie Mandela, Dorothy Day, and Thomas Merton

Entries discuss the impact gender has had on cultural beliefs and practices, social and economic organizations, and individual lives.

Family, Body, Sexuality and Health is Volume III of the Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures. In almost 200 well written entries it covers the broad field of family, body, sexuality and health and Islamic cultures.