Sex Matters: How Male-Centric Medicine Endangers Women`s Health and What We Can Do about It 9780738246765

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Автор: McGregor Alyson J.
Название: Sex Matters: How Male-Centric Medicine Endangers Women`s Health and What We Can Do about It
ISBN: 9780738246765
Издательство: Hachette Go
Классификация: ISBN-10: 073824676X
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 272
Вес: 0.45 кг.
Дата издания: 19.05.2020
Язык: English
Размер: 231 x 160 x 33
Поставляется из: США
Описание: Get the right care for your body -- and avoid treatments that can endanger women -- with this important manual from a physician who is a leading expert on sex and gender medicine.
Sex Matters tackles one of the most urgent, yet unspoken issues facing womens health care today: all models of medical research and practice are based on male-centric models that ignore the unique biological and emotional differences between men and women -- an omission that can endanger womens lives.
The facts surrounding how male-centric medicine impacts womens health every day are chilling: in the ER, women are more likely to receive a psychiatric diagnosis with regard to opioid use, while men are more likely to be referred for detoxification; the more vocal women become about their pain, the more likely their providers are to prescribe either inadequate or inappropriate pain relief medication; women often present with nontraditional symptoms of stroke, which causes delays in recognition by both them and their health professionals; and a government accountability study found that 80% of drugs that are withdrawn from the market are due to side effects that happen to women (a result of testing drugs mostly on men).
Leading expert on sex and gender medicine Dr. Alyson McGregor focuses on the key areas where these differences are most potentially harmful, addressing:

Cardiac and stroke diagnosis and treatment in women
Prescription and dosing of pharmaceuticals;
Subjective evaluation of womens symptoms;
Pain and pain management;
Hormones and female biochemistry (including prescribed hormones);
How economic status, race, and gender identity are additional critical factors.

Not only does Dr. McGregor explore these disparities in depth, she shares clear, practical suggestions for what women can do to protect themselves. A work of riveting expos with revelatory insights and actionable guidance for navigating the medical establishment, Sex Matters is an empowering roadmap for reinventing modern medicine -- and for self-care.

Sex Matters: How Male-Centric Medicine Endangers Women`s Health and What We Can Do about It, McGregor Alyson J.