Sex and Gender Aspects in Clinical Medicine

In thisbook, the Editors use sex and gender in their more stringent sense. If a clear distinction is not possible gender is used in a broader sense to include biological phenomena   The US Institute of Medicine declared in its 2001 and 2010 statements that being a woman or being a man significantly...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Oertelt-Prigione, Sabine (Editor), Regitz-Zagrosek, Vera (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London Springer London 2012, 2012
Edition:1st ed. 2012
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Gendered Innovations in Biomedicine and Public Health Research
  • 2. Sex and Gender in Medical Literature
  • 3. Sex and Gender differences in cardiovascular disease
  • 4. Sex and Gender Differences in Pulmonary Diseases
  • 5. Sex and Gender Differences in Gastroenterology and Hepatology
  • 6. Sex/Gender Differences in Nephrology
  • 7. Sex and Gender Differences in Autoimmune Diseases
  • 8. Sex and gender differences in Endocrinology
  • 9. Sex and Gender Differences in Haematology
  • 10. Sex/Gender Differences in Neurology
  • 11. Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics: The role of Sex/Gender