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the Black women's guide to physical health and emotional well-being
xviii, 587 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Body weight and image -- Our skin, hair, eyes, and teeth -- Moving our bodies -- Eating right -- Killing us softly: cigarettes and alcohol -- More than "just say no": coping with drug abuse -- We are at risk: diseases that strike us -- Our bodies growing older -- The reproductive system and menstruation -- Birth control -- Abortion -- Reproductive-tract infections -- Fighting fibroids -- How to get pregnant: reproduction and infertility -- Having a healthy baby -- The hysterectomy decision -- Menopause: going through the change -- Checkups and tests we can't live without --
Dealing with doctors and hospitals -- Alternative healing -- Emotional pain, stress, and healing with therapy -- The self-help revolution -- The healing power of spirituality -- Loving ourselves -- Loving our men -- Women loving women -- Sexuality and having sex safely -- Loving our children -- Violence in our lives -- Incest and child abuse -- HIV and AIDS -- Our work, our world.
"A National Black Women's Health Project book."
Includes bibliographical references and index.