Women and Health

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Marlene B. Goldman, Maureen Hatch
Gulf Professional Publishing, 2000 - 1276 pages
Women and Health is a comprehensive reference which addresses health issues affecting women of all ages--adolescence through maturity. It goes far beyond other books on this topic which concentrate only on reproductive health, and has a truly international perspective. It covers key issues ranging from osteoporosis to breast cancer and other cancers, domestic violence, sexually transmitted diseases, occupational hazards, eating disorders, heart disease and other chronic illnesses, substance abuse, and societal and behavioral influences on health.
Women and Health covers not only those conditions that are unique to or occur more frequently in women, but also those that present differently or are treated differently in women.

Key Features:
* Comprehensive, in-depth review of all aspects of women's health
* Highlights key women's health issues including osteoporosis, domestic violence, breast cancer, menopause, infertility, heart disease, and many others
* Addresses international women's health issues from a human rights and cultural perspective
* Presents the latest research and clinical findings from leaders in their respective fields
* Highlights controversies in treatment modalities
* Challenges the medical community to address the impact of gender on health
* Expands our thinking about the perceptions of disease and disorders in women
* Challenges current status quo in health care delivery

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Contents

Maternal Morbidity
7
Reproductive Hazards in the Workplace
8
SECTION
10
Hypotheses
15
SECTION 2
43
Suzanne G Haynes
99
Role of Advocacy Groups in Research
109
22
116
523
651
Trends Determinants
710
Alcohol Use and Abuse
742
Diagnosis and Treatment of Heart Disease
771
Cervical Cancer Screening
782
Emotions and Heart Disease
789
962
797
Cancer Prevention for Women
808

Suzanne G Haynes and Maureen C Hatch
138
Gynecology and Reproductive Biology Brigham and Womens 98117
196
and Sexually Transmitted Diseases
215
Uterine Leiomyomata
240
Gonococcal Infection in Women
285
Genital Herpes
311
Human Papilloma Virus Infection in Women
324
Human Immunodeficiency Virus and AIDS
336
Vaginal Infections
352
There a Gender Differential and if So What
474
Overview
529
Silverman
625
International
634
987
830
Overview
839
Seeman
989
855
1010
Susan S Devesa
1024
Fibromyalgia
1068
Irritable Bowel Syndrome
1098
Interstitial Cystitis
1110
Temporamandibular Disorders
1120
Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
1129
Jack M Guralnik
1143
1143
1259
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About the author (2000)

Dr. Goldman is a reproductive epidemiologist and Director of Clinical Research in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and of Community and Family Medicine at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. She specializes in research and teaching related to women's health. Her research program includes several large randomized clinical trials evaluating optimal infertility treatment for younger and older women seeking to conceive and a prospective cohort study investigating the role of preconception nutrition and oxidative stress on implantation and early pregnancy loss. She is co-editor of Women and Health, a comprehensive reference textbook for researchers, teaching faculty, and clinicians on the role of gender in understanding disease occurrence, diagnosis, treatment, and priority-setting in health care.

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