Sex Matters How Male Centric Medicine Endangers Women Health and What We Can Do About It 1st Edition by Alyson McGregor ISBN 073824676X 9780738246765

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ISBN 10: 073824676X 
ISBN 13: 9780738246765
Author: Alyson McGregor

Sex Matters tackles one of the most urgent, yet unspoken issues facing women’s 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 women’s lives.

The facts surrounding how male-centric medicine impacts women’s 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by both them and their health professionals; and a government accountability study found that 80% of drugs that are withdrawn from the market are due to side effects that happen to women (a result of testing drugs mostly on men).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 women’s 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 exposé 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 1st Table of contents:

• Chapter 1: The Biology of Sex
• Chapter 2: The Historical Exclusion of Women from Medical Research
• Chapter 3: The Gender Bias in Diagnosis and Treatment
• Chapter 4: Women’s Health and the Under-Representation of Women in Clinical Trials
• Chapter 5: Cardiovascular Disease: The Silent Killer of Women
• Chapter 6: Mental Health and the Gender Divide
• Chapter 7: Pain and the Gendered Body
• Chapter 8: Sex Differences in Autoimmune Diseases
• Chapter 9: The Problem of Prescription: How Gender Influences Medication Dosages and Effectiveness
• Chapter 10: Gender-Specific Health Needs in Reproductive Medicine
• Chapter 11: Addressing the Gender Gap in Medical Education
• Chapter 12: The Future of Medicine: Advancing Gender-Sensitive Healthcare

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