Principles of Gender-Specific Medicine: Gender in the Genomic Era (Legato, Principles of Gender-Specific Medicine) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0123742714 ISBN 13: 9780123742711

Publisher: Academic Press, 2009

Synopsis

The field of gender-specific medicine examines how normal human biology and physiology differ between men and women and how the diagnosis and treatment of disease differs as a function of gender. This revealing research covers various conditions that predominantly occur in men as well conditions that predominantly occur in women. Among the areas of greatest difference are cardiovascular disease, mood disorders, the immune system, lung cancer as a consequence of smoking, osteoporosis, diabetes, obesity, and infectious diseases.

The Second Edition of Principles of Gender-Specific Medicine focuses on the essentials of gender-specific medicine and the current study of sex and gender differences in human physiology and pathophysiology. New section editors, new chapter authors, and new chapters have been added to reflect the most up-to-date clinical research and practice.

• Offers insight into how the gender-specific risks of one organ system’s disease affects the health of other organ systems
• Outlines the sex-specific differences of normal anatomy and physiology
• Illustrates the gender-specific features and quantifies "gender" and "sex" as risk factors across all major diseases
• Qualifies and analyzes the results of new drug therapies designed with gender-specific differences in mind: ex, hormone therapy in men and women for the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease
• All chapters progress translationally from the basic science to the clinical applications of gender-specific therapies, drugs, or treatments
• Sections on drug metabolism, aging, and meta-analysis of data incorporated into all disease-specific chapters

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Dr. Marianne Legato

About Dr. Marianne Legato, Author of Principles of Gender-Specific Medicine

Dr. Marianne Legato is the founder and director of The Partnership for Gender-Specific Medicine at Columbia University and an internationally known academic physician, author, lecturer, and specialist in gender-specific medicine.

This partnership is the first collaboration between academic medicine and the private sector focused solely on gender-specific medicine: the science of how normal human biology differs between men and women and of how the diagnosis and treatment of disease differs as a function of gender.

She is also the founding editor of the journal Gender Medicine, published for the scientific community and in 1992, Dr. Legato won the American Heart Association’s Blakeslee Award for the best book written for the lay public on cardiovascular disease.

She is a practicing internist in New York City and has been listed each year in New York Magazine’s "Best Doctors" since the feature’s inception in 1993.

About the Author:

Dr. Marianne Legato, Professor Emerita of Clinical Medicine at Columbia University is an internationally known academic physician, author, lecturer, and specialist in gender-specific medicine. She is founding member of the International Society for Gender Medicine and also the founder and director of The Partnership for Gender-Specific Medicine at Columbia University and its next iteration, The Foundation for Gender-Specific Medicine. These enterprises are the first collaborations between academic medicine and the private sector focused solely on gender-specific medicine: the science of how normal human biology differs between men and women and of how the diagnosis and treatment of disease differs as a function of gender and sex. Her ground breaking-reference, Principles of Gender-Specific Medicine: Gender in the Genomic Era, is now in its third edition. She has published extensively on Gender and Sex Specific Medicine, both scientifically and for the lay public. She is also the founding editor of the journal Gender Medicine, and the journal Gender and the Genome, published for the scientific community. In 1992, Dr. Legato won the American Heart Association’s Blakeslee Award for the best book written for the lay public on cardiovascular disease. She is a practicing internist in New York City and has been listed each year in New York Magazine’s "Best Doctors" since the feature’s inception in 1993.

About this edition

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0123742714
• ISBN 13: 9780123742711
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 800
• Editor: Legato J M.D. PhD (hon C) F.A.C.P. Marianne