Textbook of Women's Health - Couverture rigide

Wallis, Lila A.

 
9780316919913: Textbook of Women's Health

Synopsis

This volume on women's health provides an understanding of the gender differences that exist in every area of healthcare, including doctor-patient communication, health maintenance and disease prevention, risk factors, pharmacokinetics, and the manifestations, natural course and treatment of diseases of every organ system. Coverage encompasses the full range of medical and psychosocial problems seen in female patients, as well as the diagnostic and therapeutic procedures performed in women. The discussion of each organ system and health problems emphasize specific characteristics of each life phase - adolescence, reproductive age, menopause, and the postmenopausal years. Full consideration is given to health issues unique to women of various racial/ethnic groups, as well as lesbians, homeless women, women with disabilities and victims of violence and abuse.

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