Author

Basso, Melanie

Learning & Development, Children's & Women's Health Centre of BC

Place of Publication

[Vancouver, BC?]

Publisher

Children's & Women's Health Centre of BC

Publication Date

2011

Physical Description

Spiral bound paperback; 37 pages

Subject

Women's Health. Gynecology

Pregnancy/Childbirth. Obstetrics

Nursing

Abstract

This self-directed learning module assists health care professionals working with pregnant women to learn about the knowledge and skills necessary to perform safe and accurate vaginal assessment.

ISBN

0000000000007

Language

English

Material Type

Book

Call Number

REF GH 100 BAS 2004

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Author

Newson, Wendy

Peters, Elizabeth

Place of Publication

[Vancouver, BC?]

Publisher

Children’s & Women’s Health Center of BC

Publication Date

2005

Physical Description

Spiral bound: 21 p.

Subject

Women's Health. Gynecology

Obstetrical Nursing. Maternity Nursing

Pregnancy/Childbirth. Obstetrics

Abstract

This self-directed learning module will acquaint health care professionals with the indications and method of use of IV Fentanyl in labour in the management of labour pain

Language

English

Material Type

Book

Call Number

REF GH 100 NEW 2005

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Author

Callahan, Tamara L.

Caughey, Aaron, B.

Edition

7th Ed.

Place of Publication

Baltimare, MD

Publisher

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a Wolters Kluwer business

Publication Date

2018

Physical Description

Softcover: p 590.

Subject

Women's Health. Gynecology

Pregnancy/Childbirth. Obstetrics

Medical Directories. Resource Guides

UBC MD Undergrad

Abstract

This book provides students with a concise review of what they need to know in their ob/gyn rotations or the Boards. Each chapter is brief and includes pedagogical features such as bolded key words, tables, figures, and Key Points. A question-and-answer section at the end of the book presents 100 board-format questions with rationales. Techniques in contraception and sterilization and hormone replacement therapies are covered, as are contemporary treatment options for uterine fibroids and invasive breast cancer.

ISBN

9781496349507

Language

English

Material Type

Book

Call Number

REF GG 100 CAL 2018

Author

Hossain, Anushay

Place of Publication

New York

Publisher

Tiller Press

Publication Date

2021

Physical Description

279pp

Subjects

Anti-Racism

Diversity

Abstract

When Anushay Hossain became pregnant in the US, she was so relieved. Growing up in Bangladesh in the 1980s, where the concept of women?s healthcare hardly existed, she understood how lucky she was to access the best in the world. But she couldn?t have been more wrong. Things started to go awry from the minute she stepped in the hospital, and after thirty hours of labor (two of which she spent pushing), Hossain?s epidural slipped. Her pain was so severe that she ran a fever of 104 degrees, and as she shook and trembled uncontrollably, the doctors finally performed an emergency C-section.

Giving birth in the richest country on earth, Hossain never imagined she could die in labor. But she almost did. The experience put her on a journey to explore, understand, and share how women?especially women of color?are dismissed to death by systemic sexism in American healthcare.

Following in the footsteps of feminist manifestos such as The Feminine Mystique and Rage Becomes Her, The Pain Gap is an eye-opening and stirring call to arms that encourages women to flip their ?hysteria complex? on its head and use it to revolutionize women?s healthcare. This book tells the story of Hossain?s experiences?from growing up in South Asia surrounded by staggering maternal mortality rates to lobbying for global health legislation on Capitol Hill to nearly becoming a statistic herself. Along the way, she realized that a little fury might be just what the doctor ordered.

Meticulously researched and deeply reported, this book explores real women?s traumatic experiences with America?s healthcare system?and empowers everyone to use their experiences to bring about the healthcare revolution women need.

ISBN

9781-9821-77775

Language

English

Material Type

Book

Call Number

REF NR 100 HOS 2021

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Author

Hamad, Ruby

Place of Publication

New York

Publisher

Catapult

Publication Date

2020

Physical Description

284pp

Subjects

Anti-Racism

Diversity

Abstract

Called ?powerful and provocative" by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, author of the New York Times bestselling How to be an Antiracist, this explosive book of history and cultural criticism reveals how white feminism has been used as a weapon of white supremacy and patriarchy deployed against Black and Indigenous women, and women of color.

Taking us from the slave era, when white women fought in court to keep ?ownership? of their slaves, through the centuries of colonialism, when they offered a soft face for brutal tactics, to the modern workplace, White Tears/Brown Scars tells a charged story of white women?s active participation in campaigns of oppression. It offers a long overdue validation of the experiences of women of color.

Discussing subjects as varied as The Hunger Games, Alexandria Ocasio?Cortez, the viral BBQ Becky video, and 19th century lynchings of Mexicans in the American Southwest, Ruby Hamad undertakes a new investigation of gender and race. She shows how the division between innocent white women and racialized, sexualized women of color was created, and why this division is crucial to confront.

Along the way, there are revelatory responses to questions like: Why are white men not troubled by sexual assault on women? (See Christine Blasey Ford.) With rigor and precision, Hamad builds a powerful argument about the legacy of white superiority that we are socialized within, a reality that we must apprehend in order to fight.

ISBN

9781-948226-745

Language

English

Material Type

Book

Call Number

REF NR 100 HAM 2020

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Author

Geddes, Gary

Edition

1st

Place of Publication

British Columbia, Canada

Publisher

Heritage House

Publication Date

2017

Physical Description

320pp

Subjects

Anti-Racism

Diversity

Indigenous

Reconciliation

Abstract

After the publication of his critically acclaimed 2011 book Drink the Bitter Root: A Writer?s Search for Justice and Healing in Africa, author Gary Geddes turned the investigative lens on his own country, embarking on a long and difficult journey across Canada to interview Indigenous elders willing to share their experiences of segregated health care, including their treatment in the "Indian hospitals" that existed from coast to coast for over half a century.

The memories recounted by these survivors?from gratuitous drug and surgical experiments to electroshock treatments intended to destroy the memory of sexual abuse?are truly harrowing, and will surely shatter any lingering illusions about the virtues or good intentions of our colonial past. Yet, this is more than just the painful history of a once-so-called vanishing people (a people who have resisted vanishing despite the best efforts of those in charge); it is a testament to survival, perseverance, and the power of memory to keep history alive and promote the idea of a more open and just future.

Released to coincide with the Year of Reconciliation (2017), Medicine Unbundled is an important and timely contribution to our national narrative.

ISBN

978-1772031645

Language

English

Material Type

Book

Call Number

REF NR 100 GED 2017

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