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  • Book
    edited by Marianna J. Legato, Marek Glezerman.
    Summary: The International Society for Gender Medicine: history and highlights is about a major step in the improvement of quality in medicine, namely the long overdue understanding that women are different from men in every system of the body and may require different approaches in diagnosis and treatment. This is not a textbook, nor is it a scientific publication. It is the story of the International Society for Gender Medicine (IGM) as soon through the eyes of 12 pioneers of Gender and Sex Specific Medicine (GSSM) from seven countries, five of whom were the founds of IGM in 2006. It describes the development of this new science in the respective countries and academic environments of the authors, their very personal experience while promoting, and implementing their vision of GSSM, their frustrations, successes, and achievements. The field of gender-specific medicine examines how normal human biology and physiology differ between men and women and how the diagnosis and treatment of disease differs as a function of gender and sex. Among the areas of greatest difference are cardiovascular disease, mood disorders, the immune system, cancer, osteoporosis, diabetes, obesity, and infectious diseases. This book is essential reading for all researchers, graduate students, practitioners, and anyone interested in this diverse and thriving field. From the early beginning, to the recent NIH mandate that females be included in pre-clinical as well as clinical research and that research results be reported by sex, the quick read will broaden your understanding of the history of the field and highlight where the future is headed.Illustrates how major universities and organizations around the world concentrated first on the unexplored world of women's biology and then progressively adopted the larger view of the importance of investigating and comparing both sexes through all levels of biomedical researchNotes the recent NIH statement that funding would depend on inclusion of two sexes in scientific protocols wherever possible as an important affirmation of the legitimacy of gender specific scienceAddresses challenges for the future: how to incorporate both sexes in investigative protocols in a scientifically valid way, and whether or not the cost of including two sexes in protocols will be prohibitively expensiveDispels the idea that gender-specific medicine is women's medicine and how changing the name of most of the organizations currently advocating and developing gender specific medicine to include men and women (rather than just women) in their group name would help dispel this notion.
    Digital Access ScienceDirect 2017
  • Book
    edited by William McKinley Runyan.
    Summary: What contributions can psychology make towards understanding the course of individual lives and the flow of historical events? After an introduction which reviews the intellectual and institutional history of the field, chapters by distinguished contributors explore the uses of psychoanalysis, neo-analytic theory, and academic psychology in historical interpretation. Substantive examples range from Joseph Stalin to Alice James, sexuality in Victorian England, the US Continental Congress, and advances in psychohistorical studies of Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany. The conclusion re-examines the conceptual foundations of psychohistory, outlining its differentiated internal structure and its relationships to adjacent fields such as psychological anthropology, historical sociology, and political psychology. The volume as a whole is intended to advance and deepen the debate about the relationships between psychology, biography, and historical interpretation. Nielsen 9780195053272 20160528

    Contents:
    Introduction
    W.M. Runyan: An historical and conceptual background to psychohistory
    PART I: CASE STUDIES IN BIOGRAPHY AND PSYCHOLOGY: R.C. Tucker: A Stalin biographer's memoir
    A. Dallin: Commentary on "A Stalin biographer's memoir"
    J.Strouse: Alice James: A family romance
    PART II: THE USES OF PSYCHOANALYSIS AND PSYCHOLOGY IN HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION: P. Gay: Psychoanalysis in history
    P. Paret: Commentary on "Psychoanalysis in history"
    P. Loewenberg: Psychoanalytic models of history: Freud and after
    R.S. Wallerstein: Commentary on "Psychoanalytic models of history: Freud and after"
    F. Weinstein: The problem of subjectivity in history
    F. Crews: Commentary on "The problem of subjectivity in history"
    K.H. Craik: Assessing the personalities of historical figures
    W.M. Runyan: Alternatives to psychoanalytic psychobiography
    PART III: CONCLUSION AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS: W.M. Runyan: Reconceptualizing the relationships between history and psychology. Nielsen 9780195053272 20160528
    Print 1988
  • Article
    Kobayashi GS, Medoff G.
    Annu Rev Microbiol. 1977;31:291-308.
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