The international society for gender medicine : history and highlights /

The International Society for Gender Medicine: history and highlights is about a major step in the improvement of quality in medicine, namely the long overdue understanding that women are different from men in every system of the body and may require different approaches in diagnosis and treatment....

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Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: Legato, Marianne J., 1935- (Editor), Glezerman, M. (Marek), 1945- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Elsevier/Academic Press, 2017.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book.
Table of Contents:
  • Gender-specific medicine : an idea that should have been intuitive but which required the efforts of an international community to establish
  • The making of the Israel Society for Gender Medicine (IsraGem)
  • A view of the history of sex/gender medicine in the United States
  • Gender medicine in Austria
  • Gender medicine in cardiovascular diseases : past, present, and future
  • Sex and gender in health : the world writes on the body
  • The Charité approach : sex and gender in research, teaching, and policies
  • Gender-specific medicine in Italy : point of view and journey of Giovannella Baggio
  • The future of science through the lens of gender-specific medicine : rewriting the contract
  • Overcoming the skepticism to reach gender equity and appropriateness in pharmacological response
  • Gender medicine in Italy : the point of view of Maria Grazia Modena
  • Center for Gender Medicine Karolinska Institutet (KI) since 2001
  • From Appalachia to West Texas : a journey to move beyond one-sex medicine
  • Sex and gender in emergency medicine : advancing care through person-specific research, education, and advocacy
  • A comparative physiologist's journey into the field of sex- and gender-specific medicine
  • A short history of the International Society for Gender Medicine (IGM).