Principles of Gender-Specific Medicine: Sex and Gender-Specific Biology in the Postgenomic Era

The third edition of Principles of Gender-Specific Medicine was awarded the 2018 Prose Award in Clinical Medicine. It explored new areas in biomedicine that integrated technology into the treatment of disease and the augmentation of human function, including space medicine, genderized robots, and cyborgs. The fourth edition continues the mission to trace the relevance of biological sex to normal function and the experience of disease in humans, with a central theme of advances in understanding the role of epigenetics in regulating gene expression in a dynamic, sex-specific way during human life. It also explores the protean role of epigenetics in human physiology, the relevance of environmental experience to human function, the therapeutic promise of gene manipulation, the preparation of humans for space travel, the use of artificial intelligence in detection and therapeutic decisions, the possibilities for technological support of compromised individuals, and an analysis of the benefits, limitations, and issues surrounding personalized medicine.

Format: Hardback
Length: 930 pages
Publication date: 05 April 2023
Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology

The third edition of Principles of Gender-Specific Medicine, which was awarded the 2018 Prose Award in Clinical Medicine, delved into and detailed exciting new areas in biomedicine that integrated technology into the treatment of disease and the enhancement of human function. The third edition included novel topics such as the sex-specific aspects of space medicine, the development and use of genderized robots, and a discussion of cyborgs, providing a glimpse into the expanding world of sex-specific physiology and therapeutics. This Fourth Edition continues the mission to trace the relevance of biological sex to normal function and the experience of disease in humans. We have now entered the twenty-year postgenomic era. The investigation of how the genome produces the phenome has led to fascinating insights and yet unanswered questions.

Principles of Gender-Specific Medicine, Fourth Edition, has a central theme: discussing advances in understanding the role of epigenetics in regulating gene expression in a dynamic, sex-specific way during human life. It explores the protean role of epigenetics in human physiology, the relevance of environmental experience to human function, the therapeutic promise of cutting-edge methodologies like gene manipulation, the preparation of humans for space travel, the use of artificial intelligence in detection and therapeutic decisions concerning disease states, the possibilities for technological support of not only compromised individuals but of the augmentation of human function, and an analysis of the benefits, limitations, and issues that surround our current expectations of personalized medicine.

Weight: 2528g
Dimension: 223 x 287 x 52 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780323885348
Edition number: 4 ed