Principles of Gender-Specific Medicine. Edition No. 2

Table of Contents

Section 1: Gender and Normal Development Section 2: Gender and the Nervous System Section 3: Cardiovascular Disease Section 4: Pulmonology Section 5: Gastroenterology Section 6: Reproductive Biology Section 7: Oncology Section 8: Infectious Disease Section 9: Immunology Section 10: Endocrinology

Authors

Marianne J. Legato Professor Emerita of Clinical Medicine at Columbia University, New York, NY, U.S.A.. Dr. Marianne Legato, Professor Emerita of Clinical Medicine at Columbia University is an internationally known academic physician, author, lecturer, and specialist in gender-specific medicine. She is founding member of the International Society for Gender Medicine and also the founder and director of The Partnership for Gender-Specific Medicine at Columbia University and its next iteration, The Foundation for Gender-Specific Medicine. She has published extensively on gender and sex specific medicine, both scientifically and for the lay public. She is also the founding editor of the journal Gender Medicine, and the journal Gender and the Genome, published for the scientific community. In 1992, Dr. Legato won the American Heart Association's Blakeslee Award for the best book written for the lay public on cardiovascular disease. She is a practicing internist in New York City and has been listed each year in New York Magazine's "Best Doctors" since the feature's inception in 1993.