Sex and Gender Aspects in Clinical Medicine

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Oertelt-Prigione, Sabine (Editor), Regitz-Zagrosek, Vera (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London, 2012.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Internal medicine.; Medicine & Public Health.; Internal Medicine.

Prior to 2000, gender medicine was not a popular term, but in the past 10 years and analogous to the growth in the need to consider Personalised Medicine, it has become hugely important to understand that “women are not small men”. There is no more doubt that clinical manifestations of prevalent dis...

Table of Contents:

• 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 Differences in Haematology
• 10. Sex/Gender Differences in Neurology
• 11. Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics: The role of Sex/Gender.