Women's Health: Your Guide to a Healthier and Happier Life by David Newman, Holly Stevens, Richard Boesel, Jackie Cotton, Becky DeLegge

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Synopsis

With chapters on adolescence, nutrition, pregnancy after age 35, and many other topics, this book offers information that is designed to help improve the quality of women's lives. Each chapter contains additional reading recommendations, information on organizations, and Internet sites.

Annotation

Received the Writer's Digest Book of the Year Award for 1998 in the Non-Fiction category.

Library Journal

Obstetricians/gynecologists in private practice, Newman and Stevens have collaborated with five other physician specialists to produce this book on women's health. Written in a clear and conversational style, it explains how women can maintain good physical and mental health through life. The first part, which focuses on gynecological health from adolescence to menopause, treats topics like dating, marriage, motherhood, weight control, sexually transmitted diseases (STD), cancer prevention, menopause, and incontinence, with a balanced emphasis on clinical and psychological issues. Part 2, on obstetrics, guides women from the pre-pregnancy test through the three trimesters to labor and delivery. Additional resources are listed after each chapter, with recommended books, organizations, and Internet sites all included. Aiming to better educate women and give them the confidence to manage changes and stresses, this guide is a useful supplement to such women's health classics as Our Bodies, Ourselves. For larger public libraries and hospital patient education collections.Lily Liu, Arkansas Children's Hosp. Lib., Little Rock