Mixed messages : our breasts in our lives
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Mixed messages : our breasts in our lives
(Penguin books)
Penguin, c1994
Available at 2 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. [280]-281
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book, aimed at all women, well or otherwise, draws on interviews with a wide range of women on how to explore breast health and women's needs. Topics include the well breast and how it functions, strategies for staying healthy, from diet to breast awareness, breast pain and self-help remedies, benign lumps, early detection and care of breast cancer, mastectomy and life after, the pros and cons of breastfeeding and breast implants.
Table of Contents
- Living with breasts - women's experience
- breasts and men
- beauty and the breast
- the battle for breastfeeding
- making breastfeeding work
- breasts and sex
- the well breast
- doctoring breasts - a women's issue
- the unwell breast
- breast cancer - facing the fears, dealing with the reality
- choosing complementary care alternatives in treatment
- cosmetic surgery
- tales of breast cancer
- the politics of breast care.
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