Integrative Women's Health / Edition 2

by Victoria Maizes, Tieraona Low Dog

Overview

Integrative Women's Health remains the only in-depth, broad-based reference on integrative women's health written for health professionals. It helps providers address not only women's reproductive health, but also conditions that manifest differently in women than in men, including cardiovascular disease, arthritis, HIV, depression, and cancer. The text presents the best evidence, in a clinically relevant manner, for the safe and effective use of herbs, vitamins, diet, and mind-body strategies alongside conventional medical treatments. As leading educators in integrative medicine, editors Dr. Maizes and Dr. Low Dog demonstrate how clinicians can implement their recommendations in practice, going beyond practical care to examine how to motivate patients, enhance a health history, and understand the spiritual dimensions of healing. In managing the patient, alternative therapies are never seen as substitutes for mainstream medical care, but always "integrated" into the overall regimen, and always subjected to the best available evidence. New to this second edition are chapters on environmental medicine and women's reproduction, thyroid health, and lesbian health.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780190214791
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	12/04/2015
Series:	Weil Integrative Medicine Library
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	864
Sales rank:	727,437
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.70(d)

About the Author

Victoria Maizes, MD is the Executive Director of the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine and a Professor of Clinical Medicine, Family Community Medicine, and Public Health at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona.

Tieraona Low Dog, MD is the Fellowship Director at the Academy of Integrative Heath & Medicine, and Chair of the US Pharmacopeia Dietary Supplements & Botanicals Admissions Panel in Pecos, New Mexico.

Table of Contents

I. Lifestyle
1. Integrative Approach to Women's Health
2. Nutrition
3. Dietary Supplements
4. Physical Activity
5. Mind-Body Therapies
6. Healthy Aging

II. Systems and Modalities
7. Traditional Chinese Medicine
8. Ayurveda
9. Energy Medicine
10. Homeopathy
11. Manual Medicine

III. Reproductive Health
12. Premenstrual Syndrome
13. Vaginitis
14. Preconception Counseling and Fertility
15. Pregnancy and Lactation
16. Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
17. Endometriosis
18. Chronic Pelvic Pain
19. Menopause
20. Prevention of Cervical Dysplasia and Cancer
21. Breast Cancer Prevention and Treatment

IV. Common Conditions in Women
22. Hypothyroidism
23. Anxiety
24. Depression
25. Urinary Tract Infections
26. Irritable Bowel Syndrome
27. Headaches
28. Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue
29. Rheumatoid Arthritis
30. Eating Disorders
31. Cardiovascular Diseases in Women
32. Osteoporosis

V. Special Topics in Women's Health
33. Sexuality
34. Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Health
35. Environmental Exposures and Women's Health
36. Women, Soul Wounds and Integrative Medicine
37. Women's Health: Epilogue

Editorial Reviews

Featured on Doody's Core Titles List for 2018

"The book is a beautiful synopsis of the medical options available to treat women's body/mind/spirit at all stages of life while incorporating the most current evidence in medicine... It is one of the most comprehensive and nonjudgmental collections of medical information that I've seen to date."
—DOODY'S

From the Publisher

Reviewer: Laura Meints, MD (Washington University School of Medicine)
Description: This book educates practitioners caring for women about the complementary, alternative, and spiritual aspects of healthcare. Tables, personal anecdotes, and summary points supplement the text.
Purpose: As stated in the preface, the purpose is to tie together traditional ways of understanding and treating disease with Western medical practices to provide integrative healthcare to women. In the process, the authors specifically seek to incorporate the art of medicine and gender-specific attention to disease states. The book aims to provide a broad-based approach to women's health through use of both anecdote and evidence.
Audience: It is intended for health professionals involved in women's health, although it fills a niche (complementary and alternative medicine) within the larger sphere of women's health.
Features: Chapters are separated into thematic subject areas of short length and depth for generalist practitioners. The book, although intended as a guide to women's health, varies between evidence-supported, practical chapters and largely subjective chapters based on the author's opinion. The chapters that use evidence tend to do so to support a particular way of thinking about the chapter's subject, rather than presenting all available evidence. Nonetheless, for practitioner seeking a basic introduction to integrative medicine as it relates to women, this is a good starting guide. The book covers lifestyle contributors to health and wellness (nutrition, dietary supplements, physical activity, mind-body therapies), world systems and philosophies related to disease (traditional Chinese medicine, energy medicine, homeopathy), reproductive health (premenstrual syndrome, the role of stress in infertility, chronic pelvic pain, menopause), and common illnesses in women (urinary tract infections, headaches, anxiety, eating disorders, osteoporosis). Concise sectioning of information in the chapters and good tables are the highlight of this book. There is much innovative information as it relates to the mind-body connection in health.
Assessment: This book superficially reaches its goals of educating the reader about integrative medicine. It only briefly describes topics, and the opinion-based chapters offer a single approach to integrative care. That said, I would recommend the book for someone new to integrative medicine as a basic introduction.

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