History of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists

History of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
Author: William Felix Mengert
Publisher: American College of Obstetricians and Gyencologists
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2001
Genre: Medical
ISBN:

This handsome edition is divided into two parts-The Past Quarter Century, which details College activities and the actions of the Executive Board between the years 1975-2000, and-The First Quarter Century, which covers 1950-1976. Throughout, you'll uncover personal letters written among the founders, the text of the original constitution and by-laws, Academy objectives, and recurring trends and issues ACOG and its Fellows have faced over the past half century.

Medical Bondage

Medical Bondage
Author: Deirdre Cooper Owens
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2017-11-15
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0820351342

The accomplishments of pioneering doctors such as John Peter Mettauer, James Marion Sims, and Nathan Bozeman are well documented. It is also no secret that these nineteenth-century gynecologists performed experimental caesarean sections, ovariotomies, and obstetric fistula repairs primarily on poor and powerless women. Medical Bondage breaks new ground by exploring how and why physicians denied these women their full humanity yet valued them as “medical superbodies” highly suited for medical experimentation. In Medical Bondage, Cooper Owens examines a wide range of scientific literature and less formal communications in which gynecologists created and disseminated medical fictions about their patients, such as their belief that black enslaved women could withstand pain better than white “ladies.” Even as they were advancing medicine, these doctors were legitimizing, for decades to come, groundless theories related to whiteness and blackness, men and women, and the inferiority of other races or nationalities. Medical Bondage moves between southern plantations and northern urban centers to reveal how nineteenth-century American ideas about race, health, and status influenced doctor-patient relationships in sites of healing like slave cabins, medical colleges, and hospitals. It also retells the story of black enslaved women and of Irish immigrant women from the perspective of these exploited groups and thus restores for us a picture of their lives.

A Companion to the History of American Science

A Companion to the History of American Science
Author: Georgina M. Montgomery
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 712
Release: 2015-10-07
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1119072220

A Companion to the History of American Science offers a collection of essays that give an authoritative overview of the most recent scholarship on the history of American science. Covers topics including astronomy, agriculture, chemistry, eugenics, Big Science, military technology, and more Features contributions by the most accomplished scholars in the field of science history Covers pivotal events in U.S. history that shaped the development of science and science policy such as WWII, the Cold War, and the Women’s Rights movement

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Obstetrics and Gynecology
Author: Charles R. B. Beckmann
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Total Pages: 529
Release: 2013-01-21
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1469826046

Established as the standard resource of the obstetrics and gynecology clerkship, Obstetrics and Gynecology is now in its revised Seventh Edition. This is the only clerkship book on the market fully compliant with The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologist (ACOG) guidelines, treatment recommendations, and committee opinions. The text aligns with the Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics' (APGO) educational objectives,upon which most clerkship evaluations and final exams are based and provides key features for self-assessment, including USMLE-style questions.

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Obstetrics and Gynecology
Author: Harold Speert
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 438
Release: 2003-12-15
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780930405625

This is a thoroughly revised edition of the classic pictorial history of obstetrics and gynecology originally published in 1973. It draws upon masterpieces of art, archeology, and medicine through the ages to provide the most complete published record of women's experience as mothers, midwives, and nurses. At the same time, its nearly 1000 illustrations make Obstetrics and Gynecology: A History and Iconography, Second Edition also the most complete pictorial record of the art and science of obstetrics and gynecology available. The author is one of the world's foremost obstetrics and gynecology historians as well as a renowned OB/GYN, researcher, and practitioner.

Technology and Infertility

Technology and Infertility
Author: Machelle M. Seibel
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011-11-09
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9781461392071

Medicine is changing at a speed never witnessed before in history. With each passing year, medical technology achieves the capacity to provide cures and improve treatments that even a short time before were difficult to con ceptualize and impossible to provide. Reproductive technology personifies this concept perhaps better than any other field of medicine. The 1990s have seen an explosion in endoscopic and ambulatory procedures, the application of molecular biology to clinical conditions, and the refinement of assisted reproduction to allow third parties (donors and surrogates) into the process of family building. More than ever before, comprehensive medical care requires a team approach. However, the team comprises not only medical and scientific personnel, but also mental health professionals, lawyers, and ethicists. This integrated and multidisciplinary approach to medical care will become even more necessary as medical capabilities continue to develop faster than society can respond. This book reflects such an approach. It is based on a Harvard Postgraduate Course in June 1990 entitled Infertility in the 1990s: Technological Advances and Their Psychosocial Implications that was sponsored by the Faulkner Centre for Reproductive Medicine. The first half of the course was directed by Drs. M. Seibel, A. Kiessling, and C. Richards. The second half of the course was directed by Dr. M. Seibel, J. Bernstein, R. N. and S. Levin, LICSW.

Handbook of Gynecology

Handbook of Gynecology
Author: Donna Shoupe
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 1295
Release: 2024-01-07
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 3031148819

This book is a comprehensive, up-to-date reference on general and subspecialty gynecology. Covering all aspects of gynecology commonly encountered in day-to-day practice, this exhaustive and fully updated new edition provides a practical, one-stop reference work for clinicians working in the field. This carefully-designed volume includes ten sections, beginning with comprehensive coverage of office-based gynecology, and continuing on to present disease processes and management information by patient age group. Each chapter includes background information, current recommendations for screening, diagnostic criteria, common and uncommon associated problems, approach to diagnosis, summary of treatment options, and an overview of ICD-10 codes for specific diagnoses. Importantly, many areas that are covered in the handbook as subspecialty problems are pertinent and important information to many of the general practitioners who handle and develop some expertise in these areas. These include ovulation induction, medical management of incontinence, management of abnormal Pap smears, and work-up of abnormal bleeding. The handbook concludes with an easy-to-navigate presentation of minimally-invasive operations, surgical procedures, neoplasms, and pathology. Advantages and risks associated with management of particular diseases are covered, along with multiple tips for avoiding complications. This second edition is fully updated. With extensive updates on cervical cancer screening, pelvic organ prolapse, and more, many chapters will be completely rewritten to reflect the latest guidelines, procedures, and methods of care in women’s health. The text additionally includes two new chapters, covering the impact of COVID on gynecology care, and the work-up and surgical management of chronic pelvic pain. This is an ideal guide for practicing gynecologists, family and internal medicine physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, fellows, residents, medical students, and all women’s health care providers.

Guidelines for Women's Health Care

Guidelines for Women's Health Care
Author: American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
Publisher: American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Women's Health Care Physicians
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9781932328356

Helps readers understand the principles of health care and management for diverse types of delivery systems and the role of ob-gyns and other providers in hospital and office practice.