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Series
Publisher
Amat Editorial
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"La endometriosis es una enfermedad que debilita el cuerpo f�isica y mentalmente y que ha torturado a las mujeres durante siglos (actualmente afecta a 1 de cada 10). A pesar de esta estad�istica tan alarmante, esta horrible e incurable dolencia es todav�ia relativamente desconocida para la poblaci�on en general y para los profesionales de la salud. S�intomas como per�iodos muy abundantes o un dolor insoportable suelen iniciarse ya en el...
Author
Publisher
Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Approximately one out of every 10 women has endometriosis, an inflammatory disease that causes chronic pain, limits life's activities, and may lead to infertility. Despite the disease's prevalence, the average woman may suffer for a decade or more before receiving an accurate diagnosis. Once she does, she's often given little more than a prescription for pain killers and a referral for the wrong kind of surgery. Beating Endo arms women with what...
Author
Publisher
ECW Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A scorching examination of how we treat endometriosis today Have you ever been told that your pain is imaginary? That feeling better just takes yoga, CBD oil, and the blood of a unicorn on a full moon? That's the reality of the more than 190 million people suffering the excruciating condition known as endometriosis. This disease affecting one in ten cis women and uncounted numbers of others is chronically overlooked, underfunded, and misunderstood--and...
Author
Publisher
Margaret Bowyer
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Nearly 200 million people around the world have Endometriosis. It is as common as asthma or diabetes, but we never talk about it. Endometriosis causes full-body symptoms, and is as painful as labor or a heart attack; in fact, it is one of the top 20 most painful conditions a person can experience (NHS, 2018). 1 in 9 people assigned female at birth live with this chronic illness (Endometriosis Australia, 2020). Endometriosis affects unknown numbers...
Author
Publisher
Grijalbo
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"La endometriosis es una enfermedad ginecológica crónica que afecta a una de cada diez mujeres en edad reproductiva y que repercute profundamente en la vida de las pacientes. A pesar de ello, es una gran desconocida y pocas veces se habla abiertamente de ella. Este libro práctico e ilustrado, escrito por el doctor Francisco Carmona, explica de forma clara y rigurosa qué es la endometriosis, por qué se produce, los factores de riesgo, cuáles...
Author
Publisher
Nation Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"For any woman who has experienced illness, chronic pain, or endometriosis comes an inspiring memoir advocating for recognition of women's health issues. In the fall of 2010, Abby Norman's strong dancer's body dropped forty pounds and gray hairs began to sprout from her temples. She was repeatedly hospitalized in excruciating pain, but the doctors insisted it was a urinary tract infection and sent her home with antibiotics. Unable to get out of bed,...
Author
Publisher
Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A comprehensive plan to alleviate the painful, debilitating symptoms of endometriosis, including tips to improve and optimize your diet, exercise, and lifestyle"--
Endometriosis can be a complex, debilitating, and all-encompassing condition that impacts one's mental health, relationships, and career. It affects 1 in 10 women and girls across the globe, but even after receiving a diagnosis, many are still left in the dark about their condition. Murnane...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"With unflinching honesty, Lara Parker, the Deputy Director for BuzzFeed, shares her day-to-day challenges of living, working, and loving with chronic pain caused by endometriosis in this raw, darkly humorous, and hopeful memoir. I wasn't ready to be completely honest about my vagina yet, and the world wasn't ready for that either. But I was getting there. I wanted the world to know that all of this pain I had been feeling ... that it was related...
Author
Publisher
Soft Skull
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In Catholic grade school, Emma Bolden has a strange, intimate experience with a teacher that unleashes a short-lived chronic coughing spell-something the medical establishment will later use against her, as she struggles through chronic pain and fainting spells that coincide with her menstrual cycle. With The Tiger and the Cage, Bolden uses her own experience as the starting point for a journey through the institutional misogyny of Western medicine-from...
Author
Publisher
Turner
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Endometriosis materializes when the endometrium--the tissue that lines the inside of the uterus--sheds, but does not exit a woman's body during her period. Instead, it grows outside of the uterus, spreading to organs and nerves in and around the pelvic region. The resulting pain is so physically and emotionally insufferable that it can mercilessly dominate a woman's life. The average woman with endometriosis is twenty-seven years old before she is...
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