Breaking the Silence on Cancer and Sexuality

Breaking the Silence on Cancer and Sexuality
Author: Anne Katz
Publisher:
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2018
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9781635930160

Cancer and its treatments have far-reaching and long-lasting effects on quality of life, and no more so than in the area of sexuality and sexual functioning. The successful treatment of cancer often leaves survivors with an enhanced appreciation of life and the love they have in their lives. Difficulty expressing love through the most intimate of acts is devastating for many couples after treatment. For those who are not partnered, treatment side effects pose additional challenges in the realm of dating and establishing new relationships when body image is altered. In the 10 years since the first edition of this book was published, oncology care providers have shown an increasing interest in addressing their patients' changes to sexuality. The field has moved from an overwhelming silence to discussions that are much more open. Both survivors and their partners have benefited from this. But so too have oncology care providers who are increasingly providing comprehensive care for their patients, especially in this most sensitive aspect of quality of life. This second edition of the award-winning and practice-changing text includes updated evidence and models that address the assessment and management of cancer-related sexual problems for survivors of all ages with a broad variety of cancers. Book jacket.

Breaking the Silence

Breaking the Silence
Author: Martin Ridge
Publisher: Gill & Macmillan Ltd
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2008-04-01
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 0717163458

Assigned to a quiet corner of Ireland's most remote county, Martin Ridge was heading for retirement after a long career with An Garda Síochána, the Irish police force. All that changed when a call from a local priest set in motion what would become the most horrific sex abuse investigation the island had ever known. At Christmas 1997 a local priest Fr Eugene Greene reported to the Gardaí that a man had tried to blackmail him. This call, an act of hubris, set in motion a Garda investigation that revealed him to be a serial abuser of children. As word of the investigation spread, 26 men came forward. Most were from the tiny Irish-speaking parish of Gort an Choirce. All had been abused by Greene as children. Soon after, another man came forward to say that he had been sexually abused by a local schoolteacher, Denis McGinley. As Ridge dug deeper, he discovered that McGinley had been systematically abusing children in his classroom for decades. He had at least 50 victims. The Greene and McGinley cases both involved the Catholic Church. Greene was a priest, and McGinley a teacher in a Catholic school answerable to religious managers. As Ridge investigated, he discovered that the Church knew about the abuse, but ignored the problem. Brilliantly written and unsparing in its fidelity to the truth, Breaking the Silence is more than an account of a police investigation: it's the story of an entire community's struggle to come to terms with its betrayal by those in whom it placed the most trust.

Man Cancer Sex

Man Cancer Sex
Author: Anne Jennifer Katz
Publisher: Hygeia Media
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Cancer
ISBN: 9781890504878

Skin care of the patient with cancer can often be challenging and tricky. This text is a helpful resource to guide the healthcare professionals who care for patients with cancer that develop skin problems. It also included a discussion of how clinical decisions can affect decision making when purchasing wound care products and treatments.

Naked at Our Age

Naked at Our Age
Author: Joan Price
Publisher: Seal Press
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2011-05-24
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1580054005

An inviting and informative guide to sex for seniors, with a clear message that "as far as sex in the senior years goes . . . the best is yet to come" (Dr. Dean Edell) Joan Price is talking out loud about a subject that is often ignored or ridiculed in our society: later-life sexuality. In Naked at Our Age, she offers a candid, straight-talking exploration of senior sexuality -- the challenges, the disappointments, and the surprises, as well as the delights of love and passion. She shares the stories of women and men -- coupled and single, straight and gay -- demonstrating how their sex lives and relationships have changed with age, and how their sex lives influence their lives and self-esteem. Along the way, she offers wise advice from sex therapists, health professionals, counselors, sex educators, and other knowledgeable experts, helping seniors to embrace intimacy in all its forms. Entertaining and indispensable, Naked at Our Age is a complete guide to enjoying senior sex, love, passion, and couplehood.

Book Alone: Cancer Symptom Management

Book Alone: Cancer Symptom Management
Author: Connie Henke Yarbro
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
Total Pages: 774
Release: 2013-05-16
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 128402556X

Cancer Symptom Management, Fourth Edition covers multiple symptoms inherent in the treatment of cancer. Each symptom is examined in terms of its cause, pathophysiology, assessment, management, evaluation of therapeutic approaches, and patient self-care. New Chapters: * Hypersensitivity * Extravasation * Ocular and Otis * Terminal Symptoms Designed to assist clinical oncology nurses in skillfully relieving and diminishing the cancer patient's symptoms, this new edition provides essential information and the tools necessary to provide quality care to cancer patients.

Rape in the Nordic Countries

Rape in the Nordic Countries
Author: Marie Bruvik Heinskou
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2019-10-29
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0429885121

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780429467608, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. While the Nordic countries are listed at the top in most international rankings of gender equality and citizens’ feelings of security, studies on the prevalence of sexual victimisation present a different picture, suggesting that the very countries that have invested much in establishing gender equality actually see a high prevalence of sexual violence. This book sheds light on the phenomenon and construction of rape and other forms of sexual violence within the Nordic region, exploring the ways in which rape and sexual violence are dealt with through criminal law and considering governmental policies aimed at combatting it, with a special focus on legal regulations and developments. Thematically organised, it offers new research on perpetrators, victimhood, criminal justice and prevention. Multi-disciplinary in approach, it brings together the latest work from a range of scholars to offer insights into the situation in the five Nordic countries, asking how and why rape and other forms of sexual violence occur, whilst also addressing the timely issues of online sexual cultures, BDSM and the grey areas of sexual offences. As such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology, criminology and law with interests in gender and sexual violence.

Sexuality and Illness

Sexuality and Illness
Author: Anne Katz
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2021-09-13
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1000432017

This evidence-based guide educates and informs health professionals about promoting sexual wellbeing in the context of challenges from physical and mental health. Sexuality is an important aspect of quality of life for many people but can be affected by a wide variety of health conditions, such as cardiovascular disease, mental illness, menopause, diseases of ageing, neurological diseases and spinal cord injuries, combat injuries, and cancer. Building readers’ confidence in initiating and encouraging open communication on this often-neglected topic, Sexuality and Illness includes case studies that illustrate how to talk about sexuality and support patients with concerns about it. Making recommendations for practice and further reading, it takes into account gender, sexual, race and ethnic diversity. This accessible text demystifies a topic that is sometimes difficult to discuss. It is essential reading for healthcare practitioners interested in providing comprehensive and person-centred care.

Handbook of Clinical Sexuality for Mental Health Professionals

Handbook of Clinical Sexuality for Mental Health Professionals
Author: Stephen B. Levine
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 536
Release: 2011-01-19
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1135967490

The field of clinical sexuality evolves in response to changing general cultural trends, scientific advances, shifting professional ideologies, and the personal maturation of its practitioners. In less than a decade, much seems to have changed in how we think about and offer care for sexual problems. These usually slight, occasionally dramatic shifts are the main reason for bringing out a second edition of this handbook. --

Finding and Revealing Your Sexual Self

Finding and Revealing Your Sexual Self
Author: Libby Bennett
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2010-04-16
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1442200383

Finding and Revealing Your Sexual Self integrates case studies and 'Sexercises' designed to enhance the information in each chapter. The tone of the book is one of compassion with a common sense approach that takes into account various sexual orientations. Special 'Sexual Healing' sections are dispersed throughout, containing relevant questions and answers relating to the difficulties that arise in different areas of sexuality and communication. The methods used in the book are tried and true exercises successfully used by the authors in couple and individual therapy. Finding and Revealing Your Sexual Self helps readers to become sexually self-aware and able to share this awareness with their partner, while providing the tools to discuss sex with professionals, if necessary.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Sexual Health and Fitness

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Sexual Health and Fitness
Author: Kate Bracy
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2008
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9781592577668

Sex is a how-to topic. There are hundreds of manuals on how to have explosive, amazing, earth-shattering sex. There are exercise books for the muscles used during sex, cookbooks for meals that increase your desire, books about low sex drive, high sex drive, and everything in between. And yet, in most of these manuals, there is usually one small chapter about sexual health. In this age of breakthrough discoveries about potency and infection, new drugs to combat the full range of sexually transmitted diseases, new technologies for contraception and genital health - there is no single volume that fully explains this extremely important aspect of all the incredible sex going on- sexual health and fitness. The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Sexual Health and Fitnessfills this market need. Written by Kate Bracy, a veteran nurse practitioner and sexual health expert, and Dr. Kathryn Arendt, respected gynecologist, this comprehensive book explains all aspects of sexual health and fitness for both men and women. In clear, jargon-free, and authoritative language, this book includes information on- The healthy functions of our sexual selves. Diet, exercise, and safe sex practices that can keep us healthy and at our peak fitness. Easy, simple personal hygiene regimens for top health. Current findings on prostate health and erectile dysfunction. In-depth explanations of the most widespread sexually transmitted diseases, their symptoms, prevention, and cures. The latest information on contraception and how it affects sexual health. The most up-to-date findings on sexual health as it is affected by age. The latest word on prescription and alternative supplements available to aid in sexual activities.