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1 online resource |
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Front Cover; The International Society for Gender Medicine; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Contributors; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Gender-Specific Medicine: An Idea That Should Have Been Intuitive But Which Required the Efforts of an International Comm ... ; References; 2 The Making of the Israel Society for Gender Medicine (IsraGem); References; 3 A View of the History of Sex/Gender Medicine in the United States; 4 Gender Medicine in Austria; References; 5 Gender Medicine in Cardiovascular Diseases: Past, Present, and Future; Introduction |
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Institutional Background-Gender Mainstreaming and Diversity at the Medical University of ViennaGender-Sensitive Research and Teaching; Gender Lectures; Postgraduate Program Gender Medicine; Gender Medicine in Cardiovascular Diseases: The Past; Education and Research; Foundation of the Austrian Society of Gender Specific Medicine (ÖGGSM) and the International Society for Gender Medicine; Gender Medicine in Cardiovascular Diseases: The Present; Gender Medicine in Cardiovascular Diseases: The Future; References; 6 Sex and Gender in Health: The World Writes on the Body; Introduction; A Journey |
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The World Writes on the BodyStruggles and Support; Call for Action; Conclusion; References; 7 The Charité Approach-Sex and Gender in Research, Teaching, and Policies; From a Student to Professor in Gender Medicine; Gender in Research; Teaching; Medical Students; Nonmedical Students and Professionals; Teaching Book; Qualification in Gender Medicine; Curriculum in Gender Medicine; References; 8 Gender-Specific Medicine in Italy: Point of View and Journey of Giovannella Baggio; Introduction: Personal Itinerary; Educational Activities; Information Activities; Research; Creation of a Network |
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Italian UniversitiesThe Chair of Gender Medicine at University of Padua: A Start-Up; Communication Tools Within and Outside the Network; The Newsletter; The Italian Journal of Gender-Specific Medicine; Italian Political Dimension; Conclusion; References; 9 The Future of Science Through the Lens of Gender-Specific Medicine: Rewriting the Contract; References; 10 Overcoming the Skepticism to Reach Gender Equity and Appropriateness in Pharmacological Response; Italian General Contest; Medical Contest; Because I Studied Gender Pharmacology; References |
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11 Gender Medicine in Italy: The Point of View of Maria Grazia ModenaThe Story; Barriers; The Last, Personal, Barrier: My Story as an Example of "Gender Related" Storm; Limits and Plans for the Future; References; 12 Center for Gender Medicine Karolinska Institutet (KI) Since 2001; How It Started; Creating a Center for Research and Education; Education; National and International Activities; Research; References; 13 From Appalachia to West Texas: A Journey to Move Beyond One-Sex Medicine |
| Summary |
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. This is not a textbook, nor is it a scientific publication. It is the story of the International Society for Gender Medicine (IGM) as soon through the eyes of 12 pioneers of Gender and Sex Specific Medicine (GSSM) from seven countries, five of whom were the founds of IGM in 2006. It describes the development of this new science in the respective countries and academic environments of the authors, their very personal experience while promoting, and implementing their vision of GSSM, their frustrations, successes, and achievements. 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 and sex. Among the areas of greatest difference are cardiovascular disease, mood disorders, the immune system, cancer, osteoporosis, diabetes, obesity, and infectious diseases. This book is essential reading for all researchers, graduate students, practitioners, and anyone interested in this diverse and thriving field. From the early beginning, to the recent NIH mandate that females be included in pre-clinical as well as clinical research and that research results be reported by sex, the quick read will broaden your understanding of the history of the field and highlight where the future is headed. Illustrates how major universities and organizations around the world concentrated first on the unexplored world of women's biology and then progressively adopted the larger view of the importance of investigating and comparing both sexes through all levels of biomedical researchNotes the recent NIH statement that funding would depend on inclusion of two sexes in scientific protocols wherever possible as an important affirmation of the legitimacy of gender specific scienceAddresses challenges for the future: how to incorporate both sexes in investigative protocols in a scientifically valid way, and whether or not the cost of including two sexes in protocols will be prohibitively expensiveDispels the idea that gender-specific medicine is women's medicine and how changing the name of most of the organizations currently advocating and developing gender specific medicine to include men and women (rather than just women) in their group name would help dispel this notion |
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Includes index |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed September 11, 2017) |
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Sex factors in disease.
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Sex Factors
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
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MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Diseases.
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MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine.
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Sex factors in disease
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Legato, Marianna J., editor
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Glezerman, M. (Marek), 1945- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780128118511 |
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0128118512 |
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