Principles of Transgender Medicine and Surgery (Human Sexuality) [Hardcover]

Randi Ettner (Editor), Stan Monstrey (Editor), Evan Eyler (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0789032686 | ISBN-13: 978-0789032683 | Publication Date: September 30, 2007 | Edition: 1 Reprint

A comprehensive and important text for health care professionals

Gender variance is widely misunderstood, and few medical texts examine the social, legal, emotional, historical, biological, and economic issues involved. Principles of Transgender Medicine and Surgery provides medical and health care guidelines and comprehensive information on all aspects of treatment of gender diverse individuals. This one-of-a-kind resource examines a full range of relevant data important to health care professionals. Each chapter addresses a different aspect of care, written by an authority on that sub-specialty. This practical guide instructs both novices and experienced practitioners on the state-of-the-art treatments and knowledge.

Principles of Transgender Medicine and Surgery presents the foremost international specialists on the issues, offering their expert knowledge on the wide spectrum of issues encountered by gender diverse individuals. In this handy text, professionals of all types can get important information about various aspects of transgender health care. This essential text is extensively referenced, and includes numerous photos, tables, and figures to clearly illustrate information.

Topics in Principles of Transgender Medicine and Surgery include:

• etiology
• primary medical care
• evidence-based preventive care
• hormone treatment of adults and juvenile transsexual patients
• general principles of surgical therapy
• reassignment surgery
• mental health issues
• developmental stages of the coming out process
• reproduction issues
• fertility issues
• karyotyping and genetics
• intersex individuals
• gender identity disorders
• aging and the care of elderly transgender patients
  

Principles of Transgender Medicine and Surgery is an essential guide for health care professionals, educators, students, patients, and patients' families.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"A highly technical resource written especially for medical professionals in the field, Principles of Transgender Medicine and Surgery lives up to its title and is an absolute "must-have" for anyone in the practice." - James A. Cox, Editor-in-Chief in The Midwest Book Review

About the Author

Randi Ettner, PhD, is a clinical and forensic psychologist. She attended Northwestern, Indiana, Harvard, and Roosevelt Universities, and Moray College in Scotland; received the Indiana University Outstanding Psychology Student award; and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She holds Diplomate status in clinical evaluation and trauma. Dr. Ettner has written two books and numerous articles on transgenderism, and an internationally syndicated column on women's health issues. Dr. Ettner's work with the transgender community began at Cook County Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, in 1977, while she was still a student. She is the founder of New Health Foundation Worldwide, an organization that assists transgendered persons. She has appeared on hundreds of television and radio programs as an advocate for the transgender community. Presently, Dr. Ettner is chief psychologist of the Chicago Gender Team, holds Diplomate and Fellow status, and serves on the Board of Directors of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH previously HBIGDA).

Stan Monstrey, MD, PhD, is Professor in Plastic Surgery and Head of the Department at the Gent University Hospital in Belgium. Since 1990 he has been involved in the surgical treatment of transsexualism as a member of the gender team at the Gent University Hospital. Sex reassignment surgery, in both male-to-female and female-to-male transsexuals, is performed on a weekly basis. Emphasis is placed on close multidisciplinary cooperation, a continuous search to improve aesthetic and functional results, and new phalloplasty techniques. The Gent University Gender Team is also active in social and political issues related to transsexualism in Belgium. In 2003 he organized the biennial HBIGDA meeting in Gent, and from 2005 to 2007 he was president of the Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association (HBIGDA), now the World Professional Association of Transgender Health (WPATH).

A. Evan Eyler, MD, MPH, FAAFP, is an Associate Professor of Family Medicine and Psychiatry at the University of Vermont College of Medicine in Burlington, Vermont, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians. Dr. Eyler is a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and the American Board of Family Medicine with Certificate of Added Qualifications in Adolescent Medicine, a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians, and a recipient of the Walter H. Kemp Award of that organization. Dr. Eyler has been active in transgender medical care for many years, and served as Director of Primary Care Services of the University of Michigan Comprehensive Gender Services Program from 1995 to 2000. Dr. Eyler has authored numerous scholarly articles and chapters in textbooks of family medicine and primary care psychiatry, principally with regard to human life cycle transitions.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 364 pages
• Publisher: Haworth Press; 1 Reprint edition (September 30, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0789032686
• ISBN-13: 978-0789032683
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 6 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #242,840 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #57 in Books > Gay & Lesbian > Nonfiction > Transgender

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Current Resource for Trans Care, October 17, 2007

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R. A. Hopwood (BOSTON, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Principles of Transgender Medicine and Surgery (Human Sexuality) (Hardcover)

This book is one of the better anthologies of care and research articles regarding transgender and transsexual individuals to come out in print. The information is needed and the format is reasonably accessible to both lay and clincial people. There are aspects of the material and information that remain slanted toward a paternalistic methodology and worldview, however, the overall knowledge outweighs these issues at this time. Readers who are themselves transgender may find some of the viewpoints and recommendations to miss the experience and lack in-depth understanding of what is happening and what it is like to "be" transgender. Readers in the United States will find some of the optimism in dealing with mental health clients and suicidality especially frustrating as the articles are written primarily from a European experience in which transgender care is covered by national health insurance. In light of this difference, some of the hopeful assurances suggested to use with clients to reduce suicidal thoughts would be utterly useless in the USA and moreover, the absence of trasngender coverage for care often increases suicidality and other health concerns and risks in the USA. It would have been helpful to have a section on dealing with transgender health care and barriers to care in the USA, in particular due to the disparity of health care coverage between the USA and the rest of the world. This book remains an exciting publication and a much needed beginning in filing the void of medical and mental health care information for those who work with transgender individuals.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An absolute "must-have" for anyone in the practice., March 2, 2008

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Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Principles of Transgender Medicine and Surgery (Human Sexuality) (Hardcover)

Principles of Transgender Medicine and Surgery is a scholarly medical text assembled from meticulously didactic essays by a wide variety of authors. Each chapter focuses upon a different aspect of transgender medical care, from "The Etiology of Transsexualism" to "Mental Health Issues", "Reproduction and Fertility Issues for Transpeople", "Surgery: Male-to-Female Patient", "Surgery: Female-to-Male Patient", and much more. A highly technical resource written especially for medical professionals in the field, Principles of Transgender Medicine and Surgery lives up to its title and is an absolute "must-have" for anyone in the practice.

5.0 out of 5 stars Principles of Transgender Medicine and Surgery, June 3, 2011

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Cheri Sarkur - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Principles of Transgender Medicine and Surgery (Human Sexuality) (Hardcover)

This book addresses a multidisciplinary approach to trans-sexuality, from diagnosis to treatment. It provides an over view of FFS and various approaches to SRS and their relative benefits to the patient. Although this information may be found in other sources, this presentation provides a single source that leads one to see the integration of the topics as valuable to the patient's well being.