Women's Gynecologic Health, based on recent research, focuses on women's gynecologic health and encompasses health promotion, maintenance, and treatment.

This text includes:

• Comprehensive coverage of women's gynecologic health care
• Clinical considerations specific to the different physical and psychosocial life stages of woman
• Emphasis on physiologic mechanisms in order to enhance understanding of normal and abnormal processes
• Evidence-based content
• Suitability for both students and practicing clinicians

• Women's Gynecologic Health includes the following features:

  • Organization of the book moves from health orientation as a basis for understanding common gynecologic problems to management of gynecologic conditions. Emphasizes normal while identifying the abnormal. For example, Chapter 20 reviews normal bleeding variations, and the provides discussion about bleeding abnormalities that are pathologic.
  • Framework is feminist, which means health care for women is approached within a perspective that is relational and based on more recently developed feminist theories about women's growth and development.
  • Evidence-based approach with Chapter 3 clarifying what best evidence and best practice means in an evidence-based practice approach.
  • Includes detailed chapters on areas too often overlooked or addressed only briefly in other texts such as gynecologic health care for lesbian and intimate partner violence.

Chapter One: Women's Health from a Feminist Perspective
Chapter Two: Women's Growth and Development Across the Lifespan
Chapter Three: Using Evidence to Support Clinical Practice
Chapter Four: Health Promotion
Chapter Five: Gynecologic Anatomy and Physiology
Chapter Six: Gynecologic History and Physical Examination
Chapter Seven: Periodic Screening and Health Maintenance
Chapter Eight: Sexuality
Chapter Nine: Contraception
Chapter Ten: Gynecologic Health Care for Lesbians
Chapter Eleven: Menopause
Chapter Twelve: Intimate Partner Violence and Sexual Assault
Chapter Thirteen: Breast Condition
Chapter Fourteen: Female Sexual Dysfunction
Chapter Fifteen: Unintended Pregnancy
Chapter Sixteen: Infertility
Chapter Seventeen: Gynecologic Infections
Chapter Eighteen: Sexually Transmitted Infections
Chapter Nineteen: Menstrual Cycle Pain and Discomforts
Chapter Twenty: Normal and Abnormal Uterine Bleeding
Chapter Twenty-one: Hyperandrogenic Disorders
Chapter Twenty-two: Benign Gynecologic Conditions
Chapter Twenty-three: Gynecologic Cancers
Chapter Twenty-four: Urinary Incontinence
Chapter Twenty-five: Chronic Pelvic Pain