Principles Of Gender-Specific Medicine

Awarded with the 2018 Prose Award in Clinical Medicine, the third edition of <i>Principles of Gender-Specific Medicine</i> explored and described exciting new areas in biomedicine that integrated technology into the treatment of disease and the augmentation of human function. Novel topics such as the sex-specific aspects of space medicine, the development and the use of genderized robots and a discussion of cyborgs were included in the third edition, providing a preview of the expanding world of sex-specific physiology and therapeutics. This Fourth Edition is a continuation of the mission to trace the relevance of biological sex to normal function and to the experience of disease in humans.<br><br>We are now twenty years into the postgenomic era. The investigation of how the genome produces the phenome has led to fascinating insights as well as yet unanswered questions. <i>Principles of Gender-Specific Medicine, Fourth Edition</i>, has a central theme: discuss advances in understanding