Mixed messages : our breasts in our lives
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Mixed messages : our breasts in our lives
(Penguin books)
Penguin, c1994
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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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