Sex and Gender in Acute Care Medicine

Alyson J. McGregor, Esther K. Choo, Bruce M. Becker

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN:
  9781107668164
• eBook ISBN:
  9781316689271
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Emergency Medicine & Critical Care

Until the past decade, clinicians and researchers assumed that the medical evaluation and treatment of both women and men were the same. This archaic and dangerous notion persisted in spite of the clear anatomic and physiologic differences between the genders. Today, we fully understand that this paradigm is false. In all specialties of medicine, practitioners and researchers are beginning to consider the influence of sex and gender and how it should inform the care of their patients. This book focuses on the issue of sex and gender in the evaluation and treatment of patients specifically in the delivery of acute medical care. It serves as a guide both to clinicians interested in the impact of sex and gender on their practice and to researchers interested in the current state of the art in the field and critical future research directions.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• Contributors
• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1 Know the Difference: Sex and Gender in Acute Care Medicine
• Chapter 2 It’s not all Chest Pain: Sex and Gender in Acute Care Cardiology
• Chapter 3 You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby: The Effects of Sex and Gender on Asthma, COPD, Smoking, and Smoking Cessation
• Chapter 4 Sex and Gender-Specific Differences in Alcohol and Drug use Among Patients Seeking Treatment in the Acute Care Setting
• Chapter 5 Sex and Gender; Pharmacology, Efficacy, Toxicity, and Toxicology
• Chapter 6 A Sex and Gender Based Perspective on Traumatic Injury
• Chapter 7 Sex and Gender Differences in the Presentation and Treatment of Cerebrovascular Emergencies
• Chapter 8 From Title IX to the Q angle: Sex and Gender in Acute Care Orthopedics and Sports Medicine
• Chapter 9 Are Women More Sensitive? Sex and Gender Differences in Pain Perception, Clinical Evaluation and Treatment
• Chapter 10 Digesting Sex and Gender: Gastroenterology
• Chapter 11 Overcoming Resistance: Importance of Sex and Gender in Acute Infectious Illnesses
• Chapter 12 Diagnostic Imaging: Focusing a Lens on Sex and Gender
• Chapter 13 Special Populations
• Chapter 14 Sex and Gender in Medical Education: The Next Chapter
• Index