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Summary: Excellent Source for Women
Review: Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom has been such a help with my own quest to understand my psyche, health issues, own body structure, function and other issues. It's so much easier to pick this book up rather than call my doctor and even helps explaining things such as weight issues, emotional tendencies, and relationships. Excellent for any questions and a teaching aid for those with daughters. Overall it is the most comprehensive book on females, written by a female who uses her own experiences many times to explain her thoughts. I highly recommend having this book on the shelf, especially if you have females in the house.
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Summary: Mesmerizing
Review: More evidence of the body mind connection and how how health is affected by our attitudes. A must read for every woman. If you're having "female" health problems, be sure to check the index and read, read, read.
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Summary: Womens Bodies Womens Wisdom
Review: This book is absolutely wonderful, informative and enlightening. It helped me through things that I didn't even realize. This book changed my life it tought me new views on what my body was telling me I am now completely in tune with my body and my spirit I coulnd not do any thing but praise this book and christiane northrup is an angel from god.
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Summary: Every woman should read this book!
Review: This book is full of vital information for women of all ages. It is useful to help you formulate questions for your next trip to your gynecologist. It is also a good read for health and well being issues that affect all women. I found the chapter on nutrition especially helpful.
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Summary: An Interesting Rx
Review: This book was actually prescribed to me by my doctor after I went in for a physical! Because I love to read, I thought it was the best prescription I had ever gotten! I read it cover to cover and found the information useful and informative, even though I am blessed with very good health. With this review, I want to pass on some other information that might be interesting to readers who have seen or read this book. Recently, I was fortunate to read a magazine interview with a person named Marc Ian Barasch (who is also and author) on illness and healing. He said that sometimes you just get sick because you get sick, and you have to take the lesson that comes with it. To quote from the article the interviewer says, "He eloquently explores the role of the spirit in disease and healing, yet also demystifies the hocus-pocus of the 'if your spirit it pure, no disease can touch you' line promoted by many in the new age movement. The relationship, he says, is far more subtle, complex, and mysterious." To all those who read this review, I wish you good healing and good health.
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Summary: Our Bodies; Ourselves is better!
Review: A friend gave me this book shortly after I was diagnosed with endometriosis, thinking it would be helpful. She was mistaken. Dr Northrup apparantly thinks that my endometriosis results from my difficulty in accepting/understanding my role as a woman, or some unprocessed sexual abuse, or some other new-age, victim-mentality psychobabble. Little actual, relevent medical information appears in this book. Some of the herbal and natural remedies are useful, but this is *not* a good reference if you have any condition more serious than premenstrual bloating. For years, I was told that the extreme misery I suffered (due to my endo) was in my head. I find it very hurtful that a self-identified feminist physician would perpetuate a variation of that myth. Buy "Our Bodies; Ourselves" by the Boston Women's Health Collective instead.
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Summary: An Excellent Blend of East and West
Review: Christiane Northrup's book does an excellent job of describing women's healthcare in a manner that includes both Eastern and Western modes of thought. Her insights are not only profound, but critical--at this juncture in time when both Eastern and Western medicine have so much to offer, Northrup provides an articulate and practical assimilation of the fluid knowledge of both fields in a manner that does not conflict, but rather synthesizes. As such, her book stands as an important, if not pivotal, work for holistic medicine and women's healthcare in general.
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Summary: I was disappointed
Review: Yes, I'm count myself as a feminist. Yes, I believe there is a strong connection between our minds and our health. No, I'm not a prude (many years ago,in my freshman speech class in college I addressed the class on the "menstrual taboo"). I feel I have an open mind, but really, many of the ideas presented in this book were just too much. I was looking for helpful information on what to expect from my middle aged female body. I didn't find it in this book.
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Summary: what a bunch of nonsense
Review: I certainly believe that there is a connection between the mind and body with respect to health, but some of the stuff in this book is just absurd. I found Dr. Northrup's program on PBS to be very interesting, but in her book, she seems to take any notion that she's found somewhere and considers it to be true without question. I have no doubt that some women find the ideas in this book to be helpful, but I am too much of a skeptic to find this book anything but annoying.
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Summary: Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom
Review: I thought this was absolutely the best book on women's health. I am not sure why some women were so vehement in their dislike of it because I found it to give women more power. The medical culture in this country believes that they know more about our bodies than we do. I can't count the number of friends that have had a doctor tell them "oh, that's normal" when they complain of aches and pains only to later find out they had cysts or tumors or other medical problems. So many (not all) doctors brush off women's pain a.) because they are men and have never had any female experiences b.) many believe women are hypochondriacs or hysterical. I have a great OB-GYN but I would never completely turn ove rmy health to someone else. I've had too many docs tell me too many different things so I figured I'd try to educate myself so I can be informed when I walk into a doc's office. Luckily I don't have to go as much anymore. This book is so great - at least 5 of my friends read it and everyone loved it as much as I did.
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