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Sperm Tales - An Informative Guide Through the Challenges of Infertility (Paperback): Lynn M Collins Sperm Tales - An Informative Guide Through the Challenges of Infertility (Paperback)
Lynn M Collins
R590 Discovery Miles 5 900 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Psychosocial Needs - Success in Life & Career Planning (Hardcover): Daniel T.L. Shek, Janet T Y Leung, Tak Yan Lee, Joav Merrick Psychosocial Needs - Success in Life & Career Planning (Hardcover)
Daniel T.L. Shek, Janet T Y Leung, Tak Yan Lee, Joav Merrick
R4,895 Discovery Miles 48 950 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

With the conclusion of adolescence, a child develops into a teenager that may experiment with dating, smoking and drinking, and they may make important decisions without parental knowledge or guidance. These teenagers may also engage in risky behaviour, which may pose as a threat to their well-being and successful transition into adulthood. With this in mind, how can we can prevent adolescent risk behaviour? Traditionally, prevention scientists propose three forms of prevention. Primarily, attempts to reduce the harmful consequences of risk behaviour, such as treatment of risk behaviour (ie: mental disorders or substance abuse) are ideal. For some problematic behaviour which has already occurred, a better approach is to identify those who are at-risk as early as possible (ie: secondary prevention). For example, youth workers may identify those who have suicidal ideation and intervene as early as possible so that they will not harm themselves. In this book, the authors assess whether a community-based program in Hong Kong was effective in promoting adolescent development and explore what factors were associated with the program effects. The authors hope that the studies included in this book can help to reveal the successful experience of the project and provide some pointers for the development of programs for adolescents with greater psychosocial needs.

Reproductive Medicine (Hardcover): Chris Flagstad Reproductive Medicine (Hardcover)
Chris Flagstad
R3,225 R2,795 Discovery Miles 27 950 Save R430 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Technologies for Healthy, Graceful Aging - Issues, Recommendations, Federal Actions (Paperback): Samuel K. Williams Technologies for Healthy, Graceful Aging - Issues, Recommendations, Federal Actions (Paperback)
Samuel K. Williams
R1,934 Discovery Miles 19 340 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The U.S. population is getting older, and Americans are living longer, on average, than they ever have before. As they age, people are healthier and more active than the generations before them and have fewer functional limitations such as difficulty walking or blindness. Studies show that people are happier on average as they advance into their later decades and enjoy high levels of accumulated knowledge and experience. Getting older is a time of social, emotional, mental, and physical change. Retirement might change how a person interacts socially every day, affecting a persons mood and well-being. Cognitive aging--the normal process of cognitive change as a person gets older--can begin, or a permanent change in physical function may arise. Technology offers a path for people who are navigating these changes potentially to prevent or minimise the risks associated with them and to enhance peoples ability to live their lives fully. The Presidents Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), seeks to identify technologies and policies that will maximise the independence, productivity, and engagement of Americans in their later years. This book focuses on four key changes older Americans often experience: hearing loss; loss of social engagement and connectivity; cognitive change; and physical change.

Girl Child MenstrualL Care & GBV AWARENESS BOOK (Paperback): Kelvin Moonga Girl Child MenstrualL Care & GBV AWARENESS BOOK (Paperback)
Kelvin Moonga
R175 Discovery Miles 1 750 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Pro-Life - Saving the Lives of Unborn Children, Making Possible Their Descendants, and Helping Their Parents (Paperback): Jim... Pro-Life - Saving the Lives of Unborn Children, Making Possible Their Descendants, and Helping Their Parents (Paperback)
Jim Harrison
R280 Discovery Miles 2 800 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Female Reproductive System - Clinical Anatomy and Physiology (Paperback): Akmal El-Mazny Female Reproductive System - Clinical Anatomy and Physiology (Paperback)
Akmal El-Mazny
R734 Discovery Miles 7 340 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Vasectomy Diaries - A Tale of Hard Decisions, Empty Emissions, and Tiny Incisions (Paperback): Noreen Conway The Vasectomy Diaries - A Tale of Hard Decisions, Empty Emissions, and Tiny Incisions (Paperback)
Noreen Conway; Rodney LaCroix
R198 Discovery Miles 1 980 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Handbook of Assisted Reproductive Technology and Infertility (2nd edition) (Paperback): Tiao-Virirak Kattygnarath MD Handbook of Assisted Reproductive Technology and Infertility (2nd edition) (Paperback)
Tiao-Virirak Kattygnarath MD
R1,152 Discovery Miles 11 520 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Brown Bodies, White Babies - The Politics of Cross-Racial Surrogacy (Hardcover): Laura Harrison Brown Bodies, White Babies - The Politics of Cross-Racial Surrogacy (Hardcover)
Laura Harrison
R2,305 R2,124 Discovery Miles 21 240 Save R181 (8%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Brown Bodies, White Babies focuses on the practice of cross-racial gestational surrogacy, in which a woman - through in-vitro fertilization using the sperm and egg of intended parents or donors - carries a pregnancy for intended parents of a different race. Focusing on the racial differences between parents and surrogates, this book is interested in how reproductive technologies intersect with race, particularly when brown bodies produce white babies. While the potential of reproductive technologies is far from pre-determined, the ways in which these technologies are currently deployed often serve the interests of dominant groups, through the creation of white, middle-class, heteronormative families. Laura Harrison, providing an important understanding of the work of women of color as surrogates, connects this labor to the history of racialized reproduction in the United States. Cross-racial surrogacy is one end of a continuum in which dominant groups rely on the reproductive potential of nonwhite women, whose own reproductive desires have been historically thwarted and even demonized. Brown Bodies, White Babies provides am interdisciplinary analysis that includes legal cases of contested surrogacy, historical examples of surrogacy as a form of racialized reproductive labor, the role of genetics in the assisted reproduction industry, and the recent turn toward reproductive tourism. Joining the ongoing feminist debates surrounding reproduction, motherhood, race, and the body, Brown Bodies, White Babies ultimately critiques the new potentials for parenthood that put the very contours of kinship into question.

Fertility Holidays - IVF Tourism and the Reproduction of Whiteness (Hardcover): Amy Speier Fertility Holidays - IVF Tourism and the Reproduction of Whiteness (Hardcover)
Amy Speier
R2,291 R2,110 Discovery Miles 21 100 Save R181 (8%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A critical analysis of white, working class North Americans' motivations and experiences when traveling to Central Europe for donor egg IVF Each year, more and more Americans travel out of the country seeking low cost medical treatments abroad, including fertility treatments such as in vitro fertilization (IVF). As the lower middle classes of the United States have been priced out of an expensive privatized "baby business," the Czech Republic has emerged as a central hub of fertility tourism, offering a plentitude of blonde-haired, blue-eyed egg donors at a fraction of the price. Fertility Holidays presents a critical analysis of white, working class North Americans' motivations and experiences when traveling to Central Europe for donor egg IVF. Within this diaspora, patients become consumers, urged on by the representation of a white Europe and an empathetic health care system, which seems nonexistent at home. As the volume traces these American fertility journeys halfway around the world, it uncovers layers of contradiction embedded in global reproductive medicine. Speier reveals the extent to which reproductive travel heightens the hope ingrained in reproductive technologies, especially when the procedures are framed as "holidays." The pitch of combining a vacation with their treatment promises couples a stress-free IVF cycle; yet, in truth, they may become tangled in fraught situations as they endure an emotionally wrought cycle of IVF in a strange place. Offering an intimate, first-hand account of North Americans' journeys to the Czech Republic for IVF, Fertility Holidays exposes reproductive travel as a form of consumption which is motivated by complex layers of desire for white babies, a European vacation, better health care, and technological success.

Two Eggs, Two Kids - An egg donor's account of friendship, infertility & secrets (Paperback): Alicia Young Two Eggs, Two Kids - An egg donor's account of friendship, infertility & secrets (Paperback)
Alicia Young
R252 Discovery Miles 2 520 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Adrift - On Fertility, Uncertainty and the Wilderness of the Body (Paperback): Miranda Ward Adrift - On Fertility, Uncertainty and the Wilderness of the Body (Paperback)
Miranda Ward
R316 R259 Discovery Miles 2 590 Save R57 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

'What would it mean to name this place I'm in, to map it? To say: this is the landscape. It looks like this, smells like this, at night these are the sounds that carry on the wind. Almost-motherhood . . .' When Miranda Ward and her husband decided to have a baby, they were young and optimistic. But five years, three miscarriages and one ectopic pregnancy later, she is still dealing with the ongoing aftermath of that decision, and the shadow it's cast over her relationship to her partner, her body and her future. In this searing, lyrical and radically honest memoir, Ward charts her journey through the uncertain landscape of almost-motherhood, asking questions of geography on the most intimate scale. How can we learn to be at home in our own bodies, even when we feel adrift from them? What language do we have for the spaces in between, the periods of wanting and waiting? And how do we maintain hope as we navigate towards an unknown future?

Male Reproductive System - Clinical Anatomy and Physiology (Paperback): Akmal El-Mazny Male Reproductive System - Clinical Anatomy and Physiology (Paperback)
Akmal El-Mazny
R618 Discovery Miles 6 180 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Female Infertility - Causes and Management (Paperback): Akmal El-Mazny Female Infertility - Causes and Management (Paperback)
Akmal El-Mazny
R618 Discovery Miles 6 180 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Big Fat Negative - The Essential Guide to Infertility, IVF and the Trials of Trying for a Baby (Paperback): Emma Haslett, Gabby... Big Fat Negative - The Essential Guide to Infertility, IVF and the Trials of Trying for a Baby (Paperback)
Emma Haslett, Gabby Griffith
R476 R391 Discovery Miles 3 910 Save R85 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

'This book is totally brilliant - informative, sensitive, funny and wise. Reading it is like talking to a fairy godmother who also happens to be a gynaecologist and expert on all things fertility' Sophia Money-Coutts Big Fat Negative (BFN) - a term commonly used on internet forums to refer to a negative pregnancy test. Infertility can be a lonely journey. One in every six couples will struggle to conceive but, despite this, many don't feel comfortable talking openly about their experiences and sharing what they are going through. As a result, they feel isolated and alone. It doesn't have to be this way. By talking, laughing and shouting about our experiences we can start to lift the cloak of shame that so often engulfs those going through it. Big Fat Negative does just that. This no-nonsense, honest guide to infertility from the hosts of the Big Fat Negative podcast smashes the taboo around this isolating and heartbreaking illness, offering first-hand experience, an understanding voice when friends don't get it, expert advice, reassurance for when you feel alone and - most importantly - humour when it you need it the most. Using first-hand accounts of the various hurdles of infertility, from work to diagnoses and IVF, coupled with advice from leading experts, Big Fat Negative will hold your hand on the not-so simple journey to motherhood - helping you to face and defeat the trials of trying for a baby.

How to optimize your fertility and get pregnant naturally - (and what to do if it doesn't happen (Paperback): Jessica... How to optimize your fertility and get pregnant naturally - (and what to do if it doesn't happen (Paperback)
Jessica Randolph
R211 Discovery Miles 2 110 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The purpose of this book is to help those who are struggling to become pregnant for whatever reason. Starting a family is a big decision and most of us expect it to happen pretty quickly. But what if it doesn't? What should we do next when we have tried for a year and nothing has happened? Many people assume the next step is IVF but this is only one option in a vast line of options available and is certainly not right for everyone. Many of you who were labelled "infertile" will be able to become pregnant naturally by following a few simple steps outlined in this book. Jessica will take you through a logical process of understanding your own body and reproductive system. It is amazing how little we were taught at school about our reproductive health and our body's normal fertility signals. This book will cover male and female fertility separately- how to optimise naturally fertility in both men and women, how to read the body's fertile signals, tests which may be required, and if there is a problem, the appropriate solutions which are available. This book will also cover the psychology of trying to get pregnant, the truth about ageing and fertility, miscarriages and dealing with loss, and assisted reproductive technologies. There is progress all the time in the world of fertility and conception and it is important you understand what these options are and when they are right for you. This will allow you to assist your medical team in getting a solution that you all want- a healthy baby. One of the most stressful things about entering the world of infertility is the feeling of lack of control, feeling like you are on a treadmill of tests and procedures and feeling more and more resentment towards all your friends who are announcing their pregnancies. There is a lot of information out there- some of it is confusing, some of it is contradictory and some of it is misleading. This book pulls together the latest research in one place in a logical way that you can understand so you know what you need to do next to get a successful pregnancy. Some of you will be able to become pregnant naturally without any intervention by making a few very simple changes. Others may need some assistance but you will know much more clearly what you need and the logical steps to follow. Trying to get pregnant can be overwhelming; knowledge is power- grab this book and take back control of your life

Recent Developments in Embryo Transfer (Hardcover): Leonard Roosevelt Recent Developments in Embryo Transfer (Hardcover)
Leonard Roosevelt
R2,939 R2,547 Discovery Miles 25 470 Save R392 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Abolition of Aging - The Forthcoming Radical Extension of Healthy Human Longevity (Paperback): David W. Wood The Abolition of Aging - The Forthcoming Radical Extension of Healthy Human Longevity (Paperback)
David W. Wood
R531 Discovery Miles 5 310 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Reconstructive and Reproductive Surgery in Gynecology, Second Edition - Two Volume Set (Hardcover, 2nd edition): Malcolm G.... Reconstructive and Reproductive Surgery in Gynecology, Second Edition - Two Volume Set (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Malcolm G. Munro, Victor Gomel
R6,381 Discovery Miles 63 810 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This new edition of a groundbreaking book is now in two volumes, on 'Fundamentals, Symptoms, and Conditions' on 'Reconstructive and Fertility Preserving Surgery and Procedures. From a distinguished editorial team and internationally recognized contributors the text educates surgeons on the techniques and procedures now needed in gynecology, with a special focus on reconstructive vaginal, hysteroscopic, laparoscopic, and laparotomic surgery, including that designed to preserve or enhance fertility. The reader can now more readily understand pathogenesis, appropriate investigation, and application of both surgical and nonsurgical strategies and techniques. The two volumes contain over 20 new chapters and in the integral ebook, over 140 instructional videos; each chapter has Key Points summarized.

Congenital Heart Disease - Molecular Genetics, Principles of Diagnosis and Treatment (Hardcover): M. Muenke, P. S. Kruszka, C.... Congenital Heart Disease - Molecular Genetics, Principles of Diagnosis and Treatment (Hardcover)
M. Muenke, P. S. Kruszka, C. A. Sable, J. W. Belmont
R5,402 R4,171 Discovery Miles 41 710 Save R1,231 (23%) Out of stock

This new book reviews the latest advances in the embryology, genetics, diagnosis, imaging, and therapy of congenital heart disease. The international cast of authors has combined its talents to produce a unique, expert perspective. This publication arrives at a very exciting time when new genetic, imaging, and therapeutic developments are changing the field. It is relevant to pediatricians, internal medicine specialists, medical geneticists, both pediatric and adult cardiologists, embryologists, imaging physicians, and cardiac surgeons. The reader is taken on a journey that begins with a historical overview of congenital cardiovascular anomalies and ends with developments in stem cell and tissue engineering. In between are chapters on cardiac embryogenesis; epidemiology; genetic syndromes associated with cardiovascular anomalies; single gene disorders; cardiac imaging; surgical and interventional therapies; and ethical considerations. 'Congenital Heart Disease' is an invaluable reference. In short, it provides essential information to create a comprehensive resource for all physicians involved with the diagnosis and treatment of cardiac malformations.

Heal America, Heal Yourself by Correcting Your Habits - Guidance for Preventing and Reversing Various Kinds of Diseases... Heal America, Heal Yourself by Correcting Your Habits - Guidance for Preventing and Reversing Various Kinds of Diseases (Paperback)
Michelle Moore
R391 R346 Discovery Miles 3 460 Save R45 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Couple's Workbook - A Guide on Assisted Reproduction Technology (Paperback): Samuel P Marynick, Juan Correa-Perez Couple's Workbook - A Guide on Assisted Reproduction Technology (Paperback)
Samuel P Marynick, Juan Correa-Perez
R344 Discovery Miles 3 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Wonder of Aging - A New Approach to Embracing Life After Fifty (Paperback): Michael Gurian The Wonder of Aging - A New Approach to Embracing Life After Fifty (Paperback)
Michael Gurian
R463 R407 Discovery Miles 4 070 Save R56 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Bestselling author and counselor Michael Gurian offers a comprehensive look at the emotional, spiritual, and cognitive dimensions of aging--and how to celebrate life after fifty.

Called "the people's philosopher" for his ability to apply scientific ideas to our ordinary lives, Michael Gurian, bestselling author of "The Wonder of Boys," sees life after fifty as an enormously fruitful, exciting, and fulfilling time. Drawing on scientific research as well as anecdotes that respond to the needs of his many clients, he goes beyond the physical-centered view of aging and presents a new, holistic paradigm embracing opportunities that come with life after fifty.

"The Wonder of Aging" focuses on the physical, mental, relational, and spiritual aspects of aging, discussing topics such as sex, how men and women age differently, the effects of aging on the brain, and what to expect in the last chapter of life. The book divides life after fifty into three stages: the Age of Transformation, from our late forties to sixty; the Age of Distinction, from sixty to seventy-five; and the Age of Completion, which involves completing one's life journey. In addition, this essential guide provides meditations and exercises to help you map out the aging process and is rich with case histories from Gurian's research and experience as a therapist.

Written with Gurian's contagiously optimistic outlook on life, "The Wonder of Aging" provides a full, constructive, and comforting roadmap to what to expect--and how to celebrate--the second half of your life.

Male Infertility - Causes and Management (Paperback): Akmal El-Mazny Male Infertility - Causes and Management (Paperback)
Akmal El-Mazny
R496 Discovery Miles 4 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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