Buch, Englisch, 522 Seiten, Print metadata, Format (B × H): 190 mm x 255 mm, Gewicht: 1350 g
Buch, Englisch, 522 Seiten, Print metadata, Format (B × H): 190 mm x 255 mm, Gewicht: 1350 g
ISBN: 978-3-8055-9929-0
Verlag: S. Karger
Gender medicine is an important new field in health and disease. It is derived from top-quality research and encompasses the biological and social determinants that underlie the susceptibility to disease and its consequences. In the future, consideration of the role of gender will undoubtedly become an integral feature of all research and clinical care. Defining the role of gender in medicine requires a broad perspective on biology and diverse skills in biomedical and social sciences. When these scientific disciplines come together, a revolution in medical care is in the making. Covering twelve different areas of medicine, the practical and useful Handbook of Clinical Gender Medicine provides up-to-date information on the role of gender in the clinical presentation, diagnosis, and management of a wide range of common diseases. The contributing authors of this handbook are all experts who, in well-referenced chapters, cogently and concisely explain how incorporation of gender issues into research can affect the medical understanding and treatment of heart disease, osteoporosis, arthritis, pain, violence, and malaria among other conditions. This intriguing and unique medical textbook provides readers with a valuable new perspective to understand biology and incorporate gender issues into the different branches of medicine.
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Title Page / Table of Contents / Foreword / Preface
Introduction
1 Gender Matters
5 Biological Sex and the Genome: What Makes Us Ourselves?
Social and Biological Determinants in Health and Disease
9 Section Editors: DeCola, P.R. (New York, N.Y.); Schober, J.M. (Erie, Pa.)
10 Gender Effects on Health and Healthcare
18 A Global War against Baby Girls: Sex-Selective Abortion Becomes a Worldwide Practice
37 Fetal Programming
52 Ambiguous Genitalia
Central Nervous System and Clinical Applications
69 Section Editor: Pfaff, D.W. (New York, N.Y.)
70 Chronic Stress and Allostatic Load
82 Autism
92 Depression
99 Violence: Adaptive Regulated Aggression Contrasted with Violence Against Women
Neurology
125 Section Editor: Olsson, T. (Stockholm)
126 Parkinson’s Disease
133 Stroke
143 Multiple Sclerosis
152 Epilepsy
157 Migraine and Other Headaches
Pain
163 Section Editor: Murphy, A.Z. (Atlanta, Ga.)
164 Fibromyalgia
169 Temporomandibular Joint Disorders
173 Irritable Bowel Syndrome
183 Pain and Analgesia
Circulation
189 Section Editor: Schenck-Gustafsson, K. (Stockholm)
190 Coronary Heart Disease
206 Coronary Heart Disease and Female Sex Hormones
212 Heart Failure
229 Arrhythmias
Cancer
237 Section Editor: Gustafsson, J.-Å. (Houston, Tex./Stockholm)
238 Cancer
252 Three Nuclear Receptors Involved in Gender-Related Proliferative Diseases (ER-ß LXR-a, and LXR-ß)
Metabolic Disease
267 Section Editor: Werner, S. (Stockholm)
268 Type 1 Diabetes
273 Type 2 Diabetes
283 Obesity
291 Pituitary and Thyroid Diseases
308 Diseases of Calcium Metabolism and Bone Metabolic Disorders
317 Adrenal Disorders, Female Androgen Deficiency, Hirsutism, and Endocrine Hypertension
327 Transsexualism
Autoimmune, Inflammatory, and Musculoskeletal Disease
335 Section Editor: Pisetsky, D.S. (Durham, N.C.)
336 Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
349 Rheumatoid Arthritis
358 Osteoarthritis
367 Spondyloarthritis
380 Gout
Infectious Diseases
387 Section Editor: Britton, S. (Stockholm)
388 HIV Infection
396 Malaria
405 Measles Infection
414 Tuberculosis
Urology, Sexual Dysfunction, and Nephrology
427 Section Editor: Arver, S. (Stockholm)
428 Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms, Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia, and Overactive Bladder
438 Sexual Dysfunction in Women
446 Sexual Dysfunction in Men
457 Chronic Kidney Disease
Pharmaceutical Drugs
465 Section Editor: Parekh, A. (Silver Spring, Md.)
466 Women in Clinical Drug Trials: United States Food and Drug Administration Update on Policies and Practices
473 Drug Disposition and Effect
Geriatrics
481 Section Editor: Herlitz, A. (Stockholm)
482 Aging in a Gendered Society: Social and Biological Determinants of Health in the Elderly Population
489 Multimorbidity
495 Dementia
504 Cognition
Further Section
508 Author Index
510 Subject Index
