Sex and gender aspects in clinical medicine

This book is a concise, easy to read professional text with a focus on practical aspects. All chapters include tables on sex/gender differences in symptomsand management and a series of suggestions to the novice in the field. Chapters are specialty-specific. The focus is not on women’s health, but the presentation of differences in clinical symptoms, management and outcomes in women and men. Gender Medicine strives to employ the knowledge about these differencesto improve diagnosis, better understand pathogenesis and advance patient-oriented therapy. A concise, easy to read professional text with a focus on practical aspects Takes a top-down view of gender-related clinical issues Wide scope and broadreach makes this a comprehensive primer in the area INDICE: 1. Gendered Innovations in Biomedicine and Public Health Research.2. Sex and Gender in Medical Literature. 3. Sex and Gender differences in cardiovascular disease. 4. Sex and Gender Differences in Pulmonary Diseases. 5. Sex and Gender Differences in Gastroenterology and Hepatology. 6. Sex/Gender Differences in Nephrology. 7. Sex and Gender Differences in Autoimmune Diseases.8. Sex and gender differences in Endocrinology. 9. Sex and Gender Differencesin Haematology. 10. Sex/Gender Differences in Neurology. 11. Pharmacokineticsand Pharmacodynamics: The role of Sex/Gender

• ISBN: 978-0-85729-831-7
• Editorial: Springer London
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 156
• Fecha Publicación: 30/09/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés