Medical Decisions, Estrogen and Aging

• Main Author: Schulkin, Jay (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2008.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Medicine > Philosophy.; Medical research.; Medical education.; Aging.; Quality of life.; Biomedicine.; Biomedicine general.; Quality of Life Research.; Medical Education.; Philosophy of Medicine.

The decision-making process that underlies ovarian hormone therapy (HT) is a fallible one. The question is whether or not physicians should prescribe HT to menopausal women, who are at a time in their lives when they are factoring various concerns into their decision to take (or not take) HT. Not on...

Table of Contents:

• Hormone Therapy: Biological, Social, and Medical Context
• Demythologized Human Decision-Making
• Autonomic Regulation, Heart, and Strokes
• Bad News—Good News: Cancers and Bone
• Brain, Mood, and Cognition
• Physicians' and Women's Responses to HT Findings: Implications for Continuous Learning and Self-Corrective Inquiry for Physicians.