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Here are various documents which can be read online or saved for reading and printing at a later date. Because the page was getting rather long, I have started a new page under the 'sub-bar' and titled 'Documents A', and further documents can be found here. Once that gets too long, then we'll move onto 'Documents B' etc. |
| Antidepressants - a patient information
leaflet A generalised html article about antidepressants and their usage in the treatment of depression. |
| Sex
Differences in the Brain Men and women display patterns of behavioral and cognitive differences that reflect varying hormonal influences on brain development. |
| Preoperative fasting: we need a new consensus An html article about the optimum time to fast before an operation. It could be useful ammunition? |
| Coping
With A Major Personal Crisis An html article giving helpful advice for coping with a major personal crisis i.e. a death in the family, etc. |
| Zen And The
Art Of Post-Operative Maintenance A popular html article explaining about post-op bodily care. |
| Healthcare for Lesbians: attitudes and
experiences. A rather disturbing article about lesbians experience of healthcare in general. (Change 'lesbians' to 'transsexuals'!) |
| Genetics; testing times ahead? An html article from PCS View about concerns with regard to the ever expanding knowledge of genetics in March 2001. |
| The
Pharmacological Treatment of Transsexuals An html medical article from David Bromham MB BS MRCS FRCOG and Rosemary Pearson RN RM BSc in Leeds, England in 1996. |
| A Sex
Difference in the Human Brain and its Relation to
Transsexuality An html article from NATURE magazine, published in 1995, which is quite famous in some circles. It provides a possible answer to gender-related brain differences and transsexuality. |
| A
follow-up study for estimating the effectiveness of a cross-gender hormone
substitution therapy on transsexual patients An html medical article from 1998. |
| Hormonal Sex Reassignment An html medical article from Louis J. G. Gooren in 1999. |
| Survival
guide to the Christmas party season. An html document giving good tips on how to survive the pitfalls of all the available Christmas parties. |
| Human
Rights Act 1998 An html document giving the full text of the Act which came into force in the UK on 2nd October 2000. |
| Homophobia
and Nursing Care. An html document about the prevalence of homophobia within psychiatric nursing, but also relevant to the general nursing sphere. |
| Hysterectomy: Nursing the Physical and Emotional
Wounds. An html document explaining hysterectomy, the nursing care, and also discusses in far greater detail the post-op care at home. |
| Hysterectomy. An html document explaining hysterectomy, what sort, the nursing care, and also discusses post-op activities. |
| Medical
Devices Agency Hazard Notice number 2000(05). An html document - TRILUCENTTM BREAST IMPLANTS: Recommendation to Remove. |
| STATEMENT
ON THE SAFETY OF TRILUCENT BREAST IMPLANTS. An html document - STATEMENT ON THE SAFETY OF TRILUCENT BREAST IMPLANTS from the Medical Devices Agency. |
| Herbs of
Special Interest to Women. An html document giving information about some phytos. |
| For a
better relationship with your Doctor. An html document giving tips and pointers for a better working relationship with your GP or any doctor. |
| Transsexualism, Medicine and Law. An html document of the closing speech by Professor L.J.G. Gooren to the Council of Europe in 1993. |
| Help
with Legal Costs. An html document discussing ways of funding any legal challenges of things such as the 'Sex Discrimination (Gender Reassignment) Regulations 1999' for example. |
| A guide
to the Sex Discrimination (Gender Reassignment) Regulations 1999. An html document of the current regulations. |
| Patient's Charter - England. An html version of the full text of the Patient's Charter for England. |
| How a Wife
fixed up the first sex change. An html version of a newspaper article about the first 'sex-change' operation in 1930. Twenty-two years before Christine Jorgenson's operation in 1952 which the rest of the world think was the first! |
| Feminine
Voice Techniques. An html document from The Looking Glass Society with various ideas and techniques on getting, and keeping, a 'feminine voice'. |
| Developing a Female Voice. An html document from Melanie Anne Phillips. Comprises both documents that she's written on this subject. |
| An
Approach to Feminine Speech and Vocal Techniques for Genetic
Males. An html document from Wendy Parker based on a talk. |
| Changing
the Vocal Characteristics of a Postoperative Transsexual Patient: A Longitudinal
Study. An html document written by two speech therapists in America. Technical but could be passed on to your speech therapist. |
| Selected
References: Speech Therapy and the Transsexual Voice. An html compilation by Anne Lawrence with her comments. |
| Hormone
Treatment in Transsexuals. An html document originally written by Doctor Henk Asscheman and Professor Louis J.G. Gooren who are both affiliated with the Division of Andrology/Endocrinology, Free University Hospital, Amsterdam. The article was published in 1992. |
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