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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “susan bewley”
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  • Reproductive Ageing

    Edited by Susan Bewley, William Ledger, Dimitrios Nikolaou ...
    Series series Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Study Group
    Reproductive ageing affects both individuals and wider society, and obstetricians and gynaecologists are witness to the impact of reproductive ageing and to some of the fears and misapprehensions of the general public. This book raises awareness of societal trends and their implications. The wider importance of the subject to the whole of society is emphasized by contributions from outside the ... Read more

    $107.99 CAD

  • Presenting the First Test-Tube Baby

    The Edwards and Steptoe Lecture of 1979

    by Fiona Kisby Littleton, Susan Bewley, James Owen Drife ...
    In January 1979, Robert Edwards and Patrick Steptoe delivered a lecture detailing the ten-year clinical and scientific research programme that led to the birth of Louise Brown, the first baby born utilising IVF. This thoroughly-researched book provides both a full annotated transcript of the lecture as well as recorded reminiscences from those who attended, detailing the contemporary ... Read more

    $51.19 CAD

  • ABC of Domestic and Sexual Violence

    Edited by Susan Bewley, Jan Welch ...
    Series series ABC Series
    ABC of Domestic and Sexual Violence is a practical guide for all health care professionals who are looking after abused individuals (whether knowingly or not) and who wish to learn more in order to help their patients. It employs a positive and hands on approach, emphasising simple history taking skills and clinical ‘tips’ and pitfalls to help demystify what is often considered a sensitive or ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

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    The Unnatural History and Broken Promise of Stem Cells

    by John Rasko, Carl Power ...
    The dazzling promise of stem cell medicine: does it work and will it save us? Two experts look at the hypeFor decades, we've been anticipating the dawn of regenerative medicine. Again and again, we've been promised that stem cells will soon cure just about every ill imaginable. If not tomorrow, then the next day, or the day after that, and so on. We're still waiting.This book is an antidote to ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • How to Choose the Sex of Your Baby

    Fully revised and updated

    by Landrum B. Shettles, David M. Rorvik ...
    More Than 1.5 Million Copies Sold!Now Revised and Updated to Include the Latest Scientific Information and Even More Success StoriesFor almost forty years, How to Choose the Sex of Your Baby has been the standard reference for couples trying to increase their chances of having the son or daughter they hope for. In this new edition of their classic book, Dr. Shettles and David Rorvik provide ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Pregnancy Loss

    Surviving Miscarriage and Stillbirth

    by Zoe Taylor ...
    A book on pregnancy loss, dispelling the myths about miscarriage and stillbirth.'Invaluable for those dealing with pregnancy loss - medically and emotionally' Dr Devora Lieberman, MD, MPH, FRANZCOG, gynaecologist and fertility specialist When a pregnancy fails, grieving parents often wonder why no one mentioned it could happen. Yet one in every four women will experience miscarriage or stillbirth. ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Inducing Labour

    making informed decisions

    by Sara Wickham ...
    When is it better to induce labour than to let a woman’s body or baby decide the best time for birth? What are the pros and cons of waiting and of being induced? What about after the due date? When the baby is thought to be bigger than average? When the woman is older? If she had IVF? Or when her waters have broken earlier than usual?Induction of labour is an increasingly common recommendation and ... Read more

    $10.61 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Vaginal Birth After Caesarean: the VBAC handbook

    by Helen Churchill, Wendy Savage ...
    Women are over four times more likely to have a caesarean birth now than they were thirty years ago and eight times more likely than they were fifty years ago. One of the main reasons that the rate is so high is that women are not encouraged to give birth vaginally once they have had a caesarean despite there being no evidence of the benefit of repeat caesareans for mother or child.Aimed at women ... Read more

    $7.49 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 Vaccine Race

    Science, Politics, and the Human Costs of Defeating Disease

    by Meredith Wadman ...
    **"A real jewel of science history...brims with suspense and now-forgotten catastrophe and intrigue...Wadman’s smooth prose calmly spins a surpassingly complicated story into a real tour de force."—The New York Times“Riveting . . . [The Vaccine Race] invites comparison with Rebecca Skloot's 2007 The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.”—NatureThe epic and controversial story of a major breakthrough ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • Aroused

    The History of Hormones and How They Control Just About Everything

    by Randi Hutter Epstein, M.D. ...
    **A Science News Favorite Science Book of 2018“A sweeping, glorious story of hormones, threaded through with sex, suffering, neurology, biology, medicine, and self-discovery.” —Siddhartha Mukherjee**Metabolism, behavior, sleep, mood swings, the immune system, fighting, fleeing, puberty, and sex: these are just a few of the things our bodies control with hormones. Armed with a healthy dose of wit ... Read more

    $17.49 CAD

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  • The Immune System

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Paul Klenerman ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The immune system is central to human health and the focus of much medical research. Growing understanding of the immune system, and especially the creation of immune memory (long lasting protection), which can be harnessed in the design of vaccines, have been major breakthroughs in medicine. In this Very Short Introduction, Paul Klenerman describes the immune system, and how it works in health ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD