Women's Health: Hormones, Emotions and BehaviorRegina C. Casper Cambridge University Press, 1998 - 329 pages This book offers an overview of the complex interplay between hormonal activation and individual and environmental influences on health and disease in women. The book provides useful information and background material important for treating problems related to the reproductive cycle, eating disorders, drug treatment of women, and clinical and treatment issues in coronary artery disease and breast cancer. This is a medically-oriented book written firstly for the practicing physician in primary care, psychiatry, internal medicine and gynecology/obstetrics. This book takes a much broader view than others on the market by combining consideration of both psychological and physical disorders affecting women and by discussing treatment issues. |
Contents
CHAPTER ONE GROWING UP FEMALE | 1 |
CHAPTER TWO REPRODUCTION ANDITS PSYCHOPATHOLOGY | 14 |
CHAPTER THREE WOMENS SEXUALFUNCTION ANDDYSFUNCTION | 36 |
CHAPTER FOUR GENDER DIFFERENCES INBRAIN MORPHOLOGYAND IN PSYCHIATRICDISORDERS | 53 |
CHAPTER FIVE THYROID HORMONES INMAJOR DEPRESSIVE ANDBIPOLAR DISORDERS | 83 |
CHAPTER SIX THE HYPOTHALAMICPITUITARYADRENOCORTICALSYSTEM | 109 |
CHAPTER SEVEN THE COSTOF STARVATION | 122 |
CHAPTER EIGHT CORONARYARTERY DISEASEAND WOMEN ESTROGENS AND PSYCHOSOCIAL AND LIFESTYLE RISK FACTORS | 150 |
THE PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY OF REAST CANCER DISEASE HORMONES IMMUNITY AND STRESS | 166 |
CHAPTER TEN HEPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGYOF WOMEN | 192 |
CHAPTER I I INTERVENTION TRIALSCONCERNED WITHDISEASE PREVENTIONIN WOMEN | 219 |
References | 243 |
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