Gender medicine : the groundbreaking new science of gender- and sex-related diagnosis and treatment
by Glezerman, M. 1945- (Author)
Summary
"Over millions of years, male and female bodies developed crucial physiological differences to improve the chances for human survival. These differences have become culturally obsolete with the overturning of traditional gender roles. But they are nevertheless very real, and they go well beyond the... Full description
- Introduction: What is gender medicine?
- Sex, gender, and personalized medicine
- Life in the womb
- Part one
- Life in the womb
- Part two
- Emotional stress during pregnancy
- Gender aspects of heart disease
- The digestive tract : gender aspects
- Our intestines : the second brain and the life within the gut
- Gender aspects of the reproductive system
- Gender aspects of infertility
- Gender aspects of pain
- Too hot, too cold : gender aspects of temperature regulation
- Men : the weaker sex
- Are men an endangered species?
- Gender aspects of doctor-patient relationships
- Gender medicine : future directions.