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Endometriosis affects a huge number of women throughout the world. It has been estimated that between 1% and 15% of women who are examined for pelvic pain and infertility may have endometriosis; the true prevalence is unknown because diagnosis can only be made with any accuracy by laparoscopic examination of the pelvis. This book provides clinicians with all the information they need in a succinct and clear text, with colour illustrations. Chapters cover: epidemiology and aetiology; diagnosis; investigation; medical treatment; and surgical treatment.

En este texto se sigue la orientación de dar mayor relieve a la Fisiología y Fisiopatología de la paciente grávida y su feto a expensas de una descripción pormenorizada de la mecánica del proceso del parto, detalles estos que pueden aprenderse mejor en la sala de partos.

En 1892 una de las primeras médicas argentinas escribió que una mujer porteña no podía ser chic sin ser al mismo tiempo "exquisitamente nerviosa". Este volumen reconstruye la historia de esa alquimia enfermiza, merced a la cual la moda, la expansión del consumo y la metamorfosis de la vida urbana atizaron la irrupción de una nueva experiencia llamada neurosis. Durante las últimas dos décadas del siglo XIX, Buenos Aires se transformó en el hábitat hospitalario de unos sujetos que no parecían hechos para el manicomio, pero que vivían atormentados por el insomnio, el desasosiego o...

Philippe Amiel presents a legal and sociological research on the right of individuals to participate in biomedical experiments. This work reconstructs the complex genealogy of the current regulatory framework, which is based on physician responsibilities and which tries to protect human subjects of experimentation from potential abuse, all this as a result of what was determined at the Nuremberg Trials. On the other hand, it shows the great necessity of a new social contract in biomedical research, one that articulates individual autonomy with equal access to the protection of their rights.