Handbook of Clinical Gender Medicine

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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.

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• Publié par: S. Karger AG
• Date de parution: 17 août 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9783805599306
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

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Handbook of Clinical Gender Medicine
 
Handbook of Clinical Gender Medicine
Editors
Karin Schenck-Gustafsson     Stockholm
Paula R. DeCola     New York, N.Y.
Donald W. Pfaff     New York, N.Y.
David S. Pisetsky     Durham, N.C.
62 figures, 4 in color, and 63 tables, 2012
To our present and future children and grandchildren.
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Karin Schenck-Gustafsson, MD, PhD, FESC Center for Gender Medicine Cardiac Unit, Department of Medicine Karolinska University Hospital Solna Karolinska Institutet Stockholm, Sweden
Paula R. DeCola, RN, MSc Pfizer Inc. New York, N.Y., USA
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Donald W. Pfaff, PhD Department of Neurobiology and Behavior The Rockefeller University New York, N.Y., USA
David S. Pisetsky, MD, PhD Division of Rheumatology and Immunology Department of Medicine Duke University Medical Center Medical Research Service, Durham VA Hospital Durham, N.C., USA
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Handbook of clinical gender medicine / editors, Karin Schenck-Gustafsson.… [et al.]. p.; cm.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN 978-3-8055-9929-0 (hard cover: alk. paper) – ISBN 978-3-8055-9930-6 (e-ISBN) I. Schenck-Gustafsson, Karin.
[DNLM: 1. Clinical Medicine - - methods. 2. Sex Factors. 3. Socioeconomic Factors. QZ 53]
616––dc23
2012008217
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ISBN 978-3-8055-9929-0
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Contents
Foreword
Wainer, J. (Clayton, Vic./Box Hill, Vic.); Wainer, Z. (Melbourne, Vic.)
Preface
Schenck-Gustafsson, K. (Stockholm)
Introduction
Gender Matters
Wainer, J. (Clayton, Vic./Box Hill, Vic.); Wainer, Z. (Melbourne, Vic.)
Biological Sex and the Genome: What Makes Us Ourselves?
Legato, M.J. (New York, N.Y.)
Social and Biological Determinants in Health and Disease
Section Editors: DeCola, P.R. (New York, N.Y.); Schober, J.M. (Erie, Pa.)
Gender Effects on Health and Healthcare
DeCola, P.R. (New York, N.Y.)
A Global War against Baby Girls: Sex-Selective Abortion Becomes a Worldwide Practice
Eberstadt, N.N. (Washington, D.C.)
Fetal Programming
Glezerman, M. (Petah Tiqwa/Tel Aviv)
Ambiguous Genitalia
Mouriquand, P.D.E. (Bron); Schober, J.M. (Erie, Pa.)
Central Nervous System and Clinical Applications
Section Editor: Pfaff, D.W. (New York, N.Y.)
Chronic Stress and Allostatic Load
Juster, R.-P.; Lupien, S.J. (Montreal, Que.)
Autism
Knickmeyer, R. (Chapel Hill, N.C.); Baron-Cohen, S. (Cambridge)
Depression
Rubinow, D.R.; Craft, C.D. (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
Violence: Adaptive Regulated Aggression Contrasted with Violence Against Women
Kreinin, T. (Washington, D.C.); Esteva, C.G.M. (Geneva); Pfaff, D.W. (New York, N.Y.);
Lusweti, S.; Shauri, H.S. (Kilifi)
Neurology
Section Editor: Olsson, T. (Stockholm)
Parkinson’s Disease
af Edholm, K.; Svenningsson, P. (Stockholm)
Stroke
von Euler, M. (Stockholm)
Multiple Sclerosis
Olsson, T. (Stockholm)
Epilepsy
Tomson, T.; Sveinsson, O. (Stockholm)
Migraine and Other Headaches
Waldenlind, E. (Stockholm)
Pain
Section Editor: Murphy, A.Z. (Atlanta, Ga.)
Fibromyalgia
Kosek, E. (Stockholm)
Temporomandibular Joint Disorders
Lim, P.F.; Maixner, W.; Khan, A.A. (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Kilpatrick, L.A.; Tillisch, K. (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Pain and Analgesia
Loyd, D.R. (Fort Sam Houston, Tex.); Murphy, A.Z. (Atlanta, Ga.)
Circulation
Section Editor: Schenck-Gustafsson, K. (Stockholm)
Coronary Heart Disease
Schenck-Gustafsson, K. (Stockholm)
Coronary Heart Disease and Female Sex Hormones
Schenck-Gustafsson, K. (Stockholm)
Heart Failure
Kühn Madsen, B. (Holbaek)
Arrhythmias
Insulander, P.; Vallin, H. (Stockholm)
Cancer
Section Editor: Gustafsson, J.-Å. (Houston, Tex./Stockholm)
Cancer
Ernberg, I. (Stockholm)
Three Nuclear Receptors Involved in Gender-Related Proliferative Diseases (ER-β, LXR-α, and LXR-β)
Warner, M. (Houston, Tex.); Gustafsson, J.-Å. (Houston, Tex./Stockholm)
Metabolic Disease
Section Editor: Werner, S. (Stockholm)
Type 1 Diabetes
Ma, R.C.W.; Chan, J.C.N. (Hong Kong SAR)
Type 2 Diabetes
Chamnan, P. (Cambridge/Hong Kong SAR); Ma, R.C.W.; Chan, J.C.N. (Hong Kong SAR)
Obesity
Rössner, S.M.; Rössner, S. (Stockholm)
Pituitary and Thyroid Diseases
Werner, S. (Stockholm)
Diseases of Calcium Metabolism and Bone Metabolic Disorders
Thorén, M. (Stockholm)
Adrenal Disorders, Female Androgen Deficiency, Hirsutism, and Endocrine Hypertension
Thorén, M. (Stockholm)
Transsexualism
Dhejne, C.; Arver, S. (Stockholm)
Autoimmune, Inflammatory, and Musculoskeletal Disease
Section Editor: Pisetsky, D.S. (Durham, N.C.)
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Shiraishi, M.; Clowse, M. (Durham, N.C.)
Rheumatoid Arthritis
Lesuis, N. (Nijmegen); van Vollenhoven, R.F. (Stockholm)
Osteoarthritis
Sowers, M.; Karvonen-Gutierrez, C.A. (Ann Arbor, Mich.)
Spondyloarthritis
Eder, L.; Gladman, D.D. (Toronto, Ont.)
Gout
Hershfield, M.S. (Durham, N.C.)
Infectious Diseases
Section Editor: Britton, S. (Stockholm)
HIV Infection
Tozzi, V. (Rome)
Malaria
Färnert, A.; Kulane, A. (Stockholm)
Measles Infection
Aaby, P. (Bissau Codex)
Tuberculosis
Ekéus Thorson, A. (Stockholm)
Urology, Sexual Dysfunction, and Nephrology
Section Editor: Arver, S. (Stockholm)
Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms, Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia, and Overactive Bladder
Peeker, R. (Gothenburg)
Sexual Dysfunction in Women
öberg, K. (Stockholm)
Sexual Dysfunction in Men
Buvat, J. (Lille)
Chronic Kidney Disease
Carrero, J.-J. (Stockholm)
Pharmaceutical Drugs
Section Editor: Parekh, A. (Silver Spring, Md.)
Women in Clinical Drug Trials: United States Food and Drug Administration Update on Policies and Practices
Parekh, A. (Silver Spring, Md.)
Drug Disposition and Effect
Mattison Faye, A.C. (Columbia, S.C.); Mattison, D.R. (Bethesda, Md./Ottawa, Ont.)
Geriatrics
Section Editor: Herlitz, A. (Stockholm)
Aging in a Gendered Society: Social and Biological Determinants of Health in the Elderly Population
Parker, M.G. (Stockholm)
Multimorbidity
Mangialasche, F.; Marengoni, A.; Kivipelto, M. (Stockholm)
Dementia
Wang, H.-X.; Kivipelto, M. (Stockholm)
Cognition
Herlitz, A.; Lovén, J. (Stockholm)
Author Index
Subject Index
 
Foreword
No one should be sick or die because of gender inequality
The World Health Organization Department of Gender, Women, and Health
The authors you will read in the Handbook of Clinical Gender Medicine have responded to the intriguing challenge of describing their discipline through the lens of both gender and sex differences. Grappling with sex and gender requires skills in both the biomedical and social sciences, and when those two thought systems come together, a revolution is in the making. The Handbook of Clinical Gender Medicine addresses this challenge across twelve body systems, providing evidence about the implications of gender and sex in relation to presentation, diagnosis, and treatment of disease processes. It is both practical and useful, as a textbook should be.
The authors who have contributed to the Handbook of Clinical and Gender Medicine have explaine