Handbook of
Clinical Gender
Medicine
Editors
Karin Schenck-Gustafsson Stockholm
Paula R. DeCola New York, N.Y.
Donald W. Pfaff New York, N.Y.
David S. Pisetsky Durham, N.C.
62 figures, 4 in color, and 63 tables, 2012
To our present and future children and grandchildren.
| _________________________ | _________________________ |
| Karin Schenck-Gustafsson, MD, PhD, FESCCenter for Gender Medicine Cardiac Unit, Department of Medicine Karolinska University Hospital Solna Karolinska Institutet Stockholm, Sweden | Paula R. DeCola, RN, MScPfizer Inc. New York, N.Y., USA |
| _________________________ | _________________________ |
| Donald W. Pfaff, PhDDepartment of Neurobiology and Behavior The Rockefeller University New York, N.Y., USA | David S. Pisetsky, MD, PhDDivision of Rheumatology and Immunology Department of Medicine Duke University Medical Center Medical Research Service, Durham VA Hospital Durham, N.C., USA |
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Handbook of clinical gender medicine / editors, Karin Schenck-Gustafsson.… [et al.]. p.; cm.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN 978-3-8055-9929-0 (hard cover: alk. paper) – ISBN 978-3-8055-9930-6 (e-ISBN) I. Schenck-Gustafsson, Karin.
[DNLM: 1. Clinical Medicine - - methods. 2. Sex Factors. 3. Socioeconomic Factors. QZ 53]
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Contents
Wainer, J. (Clayton, Vic./Box Hill, Vic.); Wainer, Z. (Melbourne, Vic.)
Schenck-Gustafsson, K. (Stockholm)
Introduction
Wainer, J. (Clayton, Vic./Box Hill, Vic.); Wainer, Z. (Melbourne, Vic.)
Biological Sex and the Genome: What Makes Us Ourselves?
Legato, M.J. (New York, N.Y.)
Social and Biological Determinants in Health and Disease
Section Editors: DeCola, P.R. (New York, N.Y.); Schober, J.M. (Erie, Pa.)
Gender Effects on Health and Healthcare
DeCola, P.R. (New York, N.Y.)
A Global War against Baby Girls: Sex-Selective Abortion Becomes a Worldwide Practice
Eberstadt, N.N. (Washington, D.C.)
Glezerman, M. (Petah Tiqwa/Tel Aviv)
Mouriquand, P.D.E. (Bron); Schober, J.M. (Erie, Pa.)
Central Nervous System and Clinical Applications
Section Editor: Pfaff, D.W. (New York, N.Y.)
Chronic Stress and Allostatic Load
Juster, R.-P.; Lupien, S.J. (Montreal, Que.)
Knickmeyer, R. (Chapel Hill, N.C.); Baron-Cohen, S. (Cambridge)
Rubinow, D.R.; Craft, C.D. (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
Violence: Adaptive Regulated Aggression Contrasted with Violence Against Women
Kreinin, T. (Washington, D.C.); Esteva, C.G.M. (Geneva); Pfaff, D.W. (New York, N.Y.);
Lusweti, S.; Shauri, H.S. (Kilifi)
Section Editor: Olsson, T. (Stockholm)
af Edholm, K.; Svenningsson, P. (Stockholm)