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Title: PCOS: A Woman's Guide to Dealing with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome by Colette Harris, Adam Carey ISBN: 0-7225-3975-4 Publisher: Thorsons Pub Pub. Date: 01 September, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.93 (15 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: making your life work despite pcos
Comment: This book is a fantastic resource not just for sufferers of PCOS but, importantly, for those who have to share the load - the friends, families and partners of PCOS sufferers. My partner has been a sufferer for many years, but only realised when she came of the contraceptive pill. The range of symptoms, as illustrated through this book, are so disparate that there must be many thousands of women who have the condition but don't realise. By taking on the emotional side of the condition, alongside an extremely thorough and informative look at the purely medical cause and effect, Harris has provided women and their loved ones with a resource to help them understand the condition, it's symptoms, and the practical ways of making life with PCOS far more bearable. And by balancing the mainstream medicine with a range of complimentary options, she allows sufferers to become empowered in taking back control of their lives.
Rating: 1
Summary: Don't waste your money.
Comment: This book is not useful or informative. Its emphasis on diet, herbal, lifestyle, homeopathic and vitamin therapy sadly ignores the endocrine issues underlying PCOS. To really understand PCOS and treatment options, buy Dr. Sam Thatcher's book, "PCOS, The Hidden Epidemic." It is equally compassionate and enormously superior in the quality of information on the causes and treatment options for PCOS. I didn't even donate Colette Harris book to my library (as I usually do with books I've finished) since I didn't want to be responsible for spreading misinformation to any women in need of PCOS information.
Rating: 1
Summary: Patronising pseudoscience
Comment: Most of this PCOS "management plan" has no legitimate scientific basis, thank heaven. If it did, sufferers would be doomed to a lifetime of meditating on orange peels, dragging an ioniser on holiday and ransacking Tesco for cold-pressed flaxseed oil.
Colette Harris is a health journalist, and her book is a case study in the flaws of popular health writing. She oversimplifies, overgeneralises, fails to cite her sources, and acts as if all "scientific studies" -- however small or poorly controlled -- were fonts of infallible wisdom. She spends pages on untested New Age quackery while ignoring the findings of mainstream medicine. Astonishingly, her book says nothing about one of the most promising new treatments: the use of Metformin for insulin resistance. She is also virtually silent on the one topic that should be discussed in all British health books: how to wrangle the treatment you need from the NHS. The author seems to assume that her readers will either go private or head straight for the witch doctor.
The book's section on infertility -- surely the most worrying aspect of the syndrome for most women -- is shockingly inadequate, and although Miss Harris touts her "holistic" approach, her treatment of the syndrome's emotional effects is superficial and trite. (Dark night of the soul? Try giving yourself some homemade light therapy!) She also links PCOS with just about every complaint her readers could suffer, dragging in things like food cravings and premenstrual breast pain that are not normally recognised as symptoms of anything except being a woman.
Far from helping women deal with the syndrome, this book encourages them to live first and foremost as PCOS sufferers. A woman who followed Miss Harris's advice to the full would end up viewing almost all aspects of her physical and mental constitution as manifestations of the disease, and restructuring virtually every waking moment in order to treat it. The book is an excellent example of the modern cult of illness, in which people are encouraged to base their identities upon real or imagined medical conditions. We are not so far away from the days of the neurasthenic Victorian invalid.
What women with PCOS really need is advice on how to differentiate solid medical evidence from the findings of spurious, unduplicated studies. They need to be given practical information on what is likely to work and what isn't -- using hard evidence and statistics, not vaguenesses like "many women find that X helps." They need to be treated like intelligent, independent people, not creatures whose world is defined by the weaknesses of their "female parts." They should be helped to deal with the really serious aspects of PCOS - having a baby, getting rid of body hair, preventing diabetes - and then allowed to get on with their lives. Unfortunately, common sense doesn't sell nearly as well as "miracle cures," and well-informed, confident women are not as likely to buy as nervous hypochondriacs.
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Title: The Pcos Diet Book: How You Can Use the Nutritional Approach to Deal With Polycystic Ovary Syndrome by Colette Harris, Theresa Cheung, Theresa Francis-Cheung, Ann Walker ISBN: 0007131844 Publisher: Thorsons Pub Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: PCOS: The Hidden Epidemic by Samuel S. Thatcher M.D. Ph.D. ISBN: 0944934250 Publisher: Perspectives Press Pub. Date: September, 2000 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: What to Do When the Doctor Says It's Pcos: (Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome) by Milton Hammerly, Cheryl Kimball, Christine DeZarn ISBN: 1592330045 Publisher: Fair Winds Press Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Insulin-Resistance Diet : How to Turn Off Your Body's Fat-Making Machine by Cheryle R. Hart M.D., Mary Kay Grossman R.D. ISBN: 0809224275 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books Pub. Date: 11 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: Fighting Back by Angela Kay Dotson ISBN: 0970502516 Publisher: Sparhawk Health Publications Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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