Eve's Rib: The Groundbreaking Guide to Women's Health (Paperback)

by Marianne J. Legato (Author) "UNLESS THEY ARE focusing on the reproductive system, most doctors have a tendency to treat patients as though they were all the same sex: male..." (more)
Key Phrases: United States, New York, Columbia University (more...)

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From a professor of Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons and Woman of the Year in Science for 2000.
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?Legato takes a fresh and much broader look at what she calls ?the new science of gender-specific medicine,? a melding of clinical practice and cutting edge research that she did much to pioneer.??San Francisco Chronicle
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Product Details

• Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: Three Rivers Press (July 22, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 140004829X
• ISBN-13: 978-1400048298
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 6.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #751,321 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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13 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A groundbreaking book, June 11, 2002

By	Barbara H. Roberts, MD (Providence, RI United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Eve's Rib: The New Science of Gender-Specific Medicine and How It Can Save Your Life (Hardcover)

Eve's Rib by Marianne Legato, MD is a groundbreaking book. In clear, easily understood language Dr. Legato spells out the myriad ways that gender influences our experience of illness, our response to medications and the expectations/biases of our physicians. She points out that when scientists performed research only on male subjects, and extrapolated their findings to women "they made a tremendous intellectual gaffe." Because women are not just diminutive versions of men. As Dr. Legato makes clear,their bodies and their response to disease are often very different from that of men - and not just in their reproductive organs. The field of gender-based medicine is still in its infancy but already some of the new knowledge that has been discovered is saving lives and improving the health care of both men and women. Just to cite one example, Dr. Legato relates how drug companies are now trying to design medicines to combat abnormal heart rhythms that can actually be caused by drugs that are effective in men, but dangerous for women. She details how every organ system in the body has features that are gender-dependent. And she points up how much knowledge is still to be gained. I recommend this book highly to anyone interested in human biology and in staying healthy.
Barbara H. Roberts, MD
Director, The Women's Cardiac Center at the Miriam Hospital
Providence, RI

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A book for so many, July 7, 2002

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This review is from: Eve's Rib: The New Science of Gender-Specific Medicine and How It Can Save Your Life (Hardcover)

Dr. Legato, the most respected voice in the nascent discipline of gender-specific medicine has written a book that can enlighten so many people. Unlike many books on "women's health" this book has the beauty of being inclusionary. The book is not only relevant to women, but is a helpful read for any husband, son, brother, or health care professional. I do not think that we have really understood what short shrift women have been given in formulating the treatment protocols for medical conditions. Hopefully this book and the science it heralds will help push the medical establishment to realizing that women are not just small men with different reproductive organs but are people with unique responses to drugs, and symptomologies that are necessary knowledge to have before anyone can make an accurate diagnosis. This book should be standard reading for every medical student.