BookIlaria Tarricone, Anita Riecher-Rössler, editors.
Summary: This book presents a concise and comprehensive overview of the most important protective and risk factors for women's health, and reviews the main areas of medical science from a gender perspective. Numerous scientific experiments and studies have shown how gender differences significantly affect the clinical presentation of physical and mental health disorders as well as responses to treatments. This text highlights these issues, while at the same time reflecting on the practical implications of the theoretical knowledge presented. It also examines the organization of social and health services, which should increasingly take into account the specificities related to gender differences and where equality is based on truly embracing these differences. The final part provides insights into the experiences and testimonies collected by the authors of the book. Written by a multidisciplinary team of medical, psychosocial and humanities professionals, this book is of interest to health professionals and medical students. -- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Fairness, Equality and Health: Toward a Gender Oriented Prospective
The Woman in the History of Health
Gender Violence: Risk Factors and Resilience
Vulnerability Factors and Protective Factors for Mental Health: A Rereading in Gender Perspective
Gender, Genoma and Health
Women at Work
Women, Migration and Social
Environment
Media
Cinema
Women and music
Sport and Gender
Diet and Gender
Motherhood, Childbirth and Perinatal Age
Childhood
Adolescence
Sexual health, LGBT and
Human Right
Senility
Heart and Vascular Disorders
Endocrine Disorders
Urogenital and Reproductive Disorders
Central and Peripheral Nervous Disorders
Psychiatric
Disorders
Gender and Pain
The Brain Gut Axis and the Gender
Infectious diseases and gender
Social Services
Primary Care
Towards Gender-Sensitive Mental Health Services
Guarantee Committee for Equal Opportunity, Employee Well-being and Non-discrimination at Work (CUG)
Prevention of Violence and Emergency Services
When the woman is the mother: the work of pediatrician for caring mothers and children
ADU
A Vase of Flowers
Women at School
When the daughter is a doctor.