A Gynecologist's Second Opinion: The Questions and Answers You Need to Take Charge of Your Health (First Edition) Review

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(More customer reviews)A week ago I had a hysterectomy, with removal of the ovaries and "plumbing" repairs, all related to pelvic organ prolapse and urinary incontinence. I had ordered this book months ago, in preparation for the planned surgery. So, now that I have planned for and actually had the surgery, I am in a position to give an opinion on this book. YOU MUST READ IT!It is full of all of the questions, and more, that you would want to ask, and it is written in a very understandable way. Now that I have actually experienced the surgery, I have gone back to read the sections specifically on surgery and my problems, and the book is right on target! Everything from the description of what it is like to go into the operating room, to anesthesia, nursing care, etc., is clearly and directly stated right here for you. The book has additional chapters on other topics which weren't relevant to my current medical situation, but you can bet your bottom dollar that I am holding on to this book for future use, as it is so comprehensive. I would unconditionally recommend it!

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Written in Q&A Format, A Gynecologist's Second Opinion answers all the questions that patients actually have but that most doctors often don't have the time or the patience to answer. It addresses women's concerns while providing the facts needed to get appropriate care.The book was written with the idea that a woman should be a partner with her doctor in her health care, and the more information and understanding she had, the better off she would be.
Presented with the stories of women who have actually had these experiences, this authoritative guide provides detailed information on fibroids, ovarian cysts, hysterectomy and the many alternatives to hysterectomy, common bladder problems, contraceptive options, endometriosis, pelvic pain, ovarian cancer screening tests, abnormal pap smears and cervical cancer, menstrual bleeding problems, pre-operative and post-operative instructions and concerns and more. There are diagrams to make the anatomy and possible surgical procedures clear and understandable.
Numerous treatment options and alternatives for each gynecological problem are described, as well an overview of the type of diagnostic tests required to make a definitive diagnosis.With completely up-to-date information on the latest surgical procedures, drugs, and tests, this must-have reference will find its place on every woman's bookshelf.

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Woman: An Intimate Geography Review

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(More customer reviews)This is one of those books that I am considering buying for every woman I know: young, old, of all creeds, races, and religions.... even after completing it I am STILL floored by its appropriate, humorous, scientific,lyrical, and profound words.  It is empowering without any negativism. There is not a shread of male-bashing in this work of art.   Natalie Angieris a science writer for the New York Times and her work is infused withjust enough science to make all the fascinating issues she coverscomprehensible to any and everyone who reads this book.   She covers thefemale body like no one ever has, and I don't just mean the chapters onbreasts, the uterus, and the ovaries, but the hormones, the menstrualcycles, nursing babies, menopause, exercise, chemistry, and the psychologyof being a woman.  I wish so much that this amazing piece of work had beenaround when I was 18 and wondering what the hell was WRONG with me! (nothing. apparently.  But who can tell an 18 year old anything.... maybeif I could have read it.....).  Angiers carefully weaves together themyths, the legends, the cultures, and even the misogyny from where we ALLcome and gracefully and humorously meshes them with the studies, thesciences, the theories and the facts, and gives the reader an entire bodyof work on all of the issues about ourselves we are curious about.   It isbook that teaches you something fascinating about how and why you are andwork and play and love.  One of the themes that surrepticiously repeats inthis book is the completely normal, completely natural, "you are SO ok- it's laughable to think otherwise" theme.  Women are complex andcomplicated creatures and we owe that to this magnificent temple called thebody and we now have all the evidence and joy in this book to know that.

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Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud Review

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(More customer reviews)Joan Cadden's much more important and accurate book, _The Meanings of Sex Difference in the Middle Ages_, opens by taking Laqueur's premise to task.And she's right to do so -- someone had to.

The problem is that Laqueur simplifies.He attempts to argue, based on little understanding of the complexity of medical models used either in antiquity or in the Middle Ages, that a one-sex model predominated in medicine.And while, to a degree, he's right, he's equally wrong.He would be correct if Aristotle's model of the human body were the ONLY one used either in antiquity or the Latin west.But Aristotle pointedly presented his model of gender in opposition to that proposed by the Hippocratics.Galen, who obviously knew both Aristotle and Hippocrates, then modified the idea of what constitutes sexual differentiation even further.After Galen, we have centuries of commentary and modification by Arabic scholars -- Avicenna predominates -- before we get to the Latin translations which spurred scholastic debate in the universities of the west.Their model of the body was not simple or limited, it didn't rely solely on authoritative sources from the past, and it never solidified into a unified theory.To argue that it did would rob these individuals of their collective rationality and treat them like amusing children -- something a historian should avoid whenever possible.

In order to create a readable and comprehensible text, Laqueur elided the complexities of the arguments common in the medieval universities regarding sex difference and reproduction in order to present his readers with a neat and tidy package.Whenever presented with a neat package in history, doubt the source.

Cadden's work is a direct refutation of Laqueur's.In it, she attempts to detail the confusing and complex model of sexual differentiation inherited by the Latin west from antiquity, including Galen's two-seed model and all the implications thereof.She furthermore attempts to demonstrate the application of these theories of gender and sex.She grounds her arguments much more firmly in the context of the time than Laqueur ever managed to do.
If you really want to understand pre-modern concepts of the body, set Laqueur aside and pick up Cadden instead.While Laqueur's model is a nicely simplified version of the past, the question has to arise -- when does simplification become distortion?How much detail about the past can be safely ignored in the name of simplicity before you create a useless model?But for those who only want a cursory investigation into the history of the body through a primarily medical lens, by all means read the Laqueur.He's far easier to read than Cadden.He's just not as reputable.

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This is a book about the making an unmaking of sex over the centuries. It tells the astonishing story of sex in West from the ancients to the moderns in a precise account of the history of reproductive anatomy and physiology.

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