The Textbook of Clinical Sexual Medicine


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“The Textbook of Clinical Sexual Medicine utilizes the biopsychosocial approach to inform physicians, practitioners, residents, trainees, and students about the latest science has to offer today for the evaluation and treatment of sexual dysfunctions especially the utilization of the full armamentarium of assessment methods and treatment interventions in order to restore of sexual health and enhance quality of life.” Louis Ignarro, Ph.D., Nobel Laureate This textbook is a comprehensive resource covering sexual disorders in depth, from etiology, pathophysiology, phenomenology, treatment, to prognosis. The book highlights aspects the biological and psychosocial factors predisposing, precipitating, and perpetuating sexual dysfunction, and the importance of integrating biological and psychosocial treatments. Specialized chapters cover specific common medical complaints, including erectile, ejaculatory, and orgasmic disorders in the male; desire, arousal and orgasmic disorders in the female; and an integrated approach to the couple. With its focus on educational tools including over 100 figures, easy-to-use DSM-5 criteria table, and quick-guide appendices, this textbook is specially designed to educate readers on the psychiatric evaluation, treatment, and management of a wide range of sexual disorders. The Textbook of Clinical Sexual Medicine is a vital resource for medical students, residents, fellows, graduate students, psychiatrists, psychologists, women’s health specialists, urologists, endocrinologists, general practitioners, social workers, and all medical professionals and trainees working with patients suffering from sexual disorders.




Integrative Sexual Health


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Integrative Sexual Health explores beyond the standard topics in men's and women's health, drawing on a diverse research literature to provide an overview of sexual biology and sexual dysfunction, diverse lifespan, lifestyle and environmental impacts on sexual function, integrative medicine solutions to sexual problems, and traditional eastern and western treatment approaches to healing sexual difficulties. This comprehensive guide written by experts in the field provides clinical vignettes, detailed treatment strategies for mitigating the side effects of both medications and sexual dysfunction associated with medical illness and poor lifestyle habits, and extensive further reading resources. Integrative treatment modalities not typically consulted in mainstream medicine, such as traditional Chinese medicine, Ayurvedic medicine, aromatherapy, and botanical medicine, are presented with the best evidence, in a clinically relevant manner. Part of the Weil Integrative Medicine Library, this volume is a must read for the specialist and non-specialist alike who wish to address sexual problems using an integrative medicine approach, and acquire tools to maintain lifetime optimal health and vitality that supports healthy sexuality. Integrative medicine is defined as healing-oriented medicine that takes account of the whole person (body, mind, and spirit) as well as all aspects of lifestyle; it emphasizes the therapeutic relationship and makes use of appropriate therapies, both conventional and alternative. Series editor Andrew Weil, MD, is Professor and Director of the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona. Dr. Weil's program was the first such academic program in the U.S., and its stated goal is "to combine the best ideas and practices of conventional and alternative medicine into cost effective treatments without embracing alternative practices uncritically."




Psychiatry and Sexual Medicine


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Psychiatry meets sexual medicine! This book explores the links between mental and sexual health and provides guidance for the treatment of the most common sexual problems. The book fills the need of many clinicians and trainees who work in the field of psychiatry and sexual medicine. Offering comprehensive and clearly structured information, case presentations, and key messages this book focuses on sharing essential knowledge and skills of recognized experts in the field. Get inspired by the vivid interactions of psychiatry and sexual medicine and help your patients on their way to improved sexual health!




Cancer and Sexual Health


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The average physician and even cancer care-givers are not knowledgeable about the effects of cancer treatment on sex and reproductive life. They are even less aware of the options available for treatment of such patients. Cancer and Sexual Health fills a great need for a reference work devoted to the link between cancer and human sexuality. The volume is designed to give a comprehensive and state-of-the-art review of the sexual and reproductive consequences of cancer diagnosis and treatment. It will prove an invaluable resource for those clinicians caring for cancer patients as well as acting as a reference text for the sexual medicine clinician who may not see a large number of cancer patients.




The Quest for Sexual Health


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"Since the 1970s, health professionals, researchers, governments, advocacy groups, and commercial interests have invested in the pursuit of something called 'sexual health'. Programs were launched, organizations founded, initiatives funded, products sold-and yet, no book before this one asks: What does it mean to be sexually healthy? When did people conceive of a form of health called sexual health? And how did it become the gateway to addressing a host of social harms and the reimagining of private desires and public dreams? Offering an entryway into the distinctive worlds of sexual health, this book traverses the distance from the research and treatment domains where sexual health is assessed, measured, and improved to the "sex expos" that invite attendees to "leave their inhibitions at the door and explore today's top intimacy products" and beyond. Sexual health encompasses wildly disparate agendas and speaks to innumerable concerns-from sexual dysfunction to sexual violence, from HIV prevention to reproductive freedom, to the practicalities of sexual contact during a global pandemic. Rather than a thing apart, sexual health is intertwined with nearly every conceivable topical debate-and more of them every day. Through his wide-ranging exploration, Steven Epstein provides the critical tools needed to bring into focus the different faces of sexual health and parse the debates that swirl around it"--




The Guidebook of Sexual Medicine


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Ishak offers a clinical manual for mental health professionals, primary care MDs, urologists, gynecologists, and internists who are evaluating and treating sexual disorders.




ABC of Sexual Health


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ABC of Sexual Health ABC of Sexual Health provides a comprehensive overview of this important, but difficult subject and includes reading resources as well as information on professional societies, patient groups and online resources. Fully revised and expanded to cover a range of new content and topics including psychological, urological, gynaecological, endocrinological and psychiatric aspects of sexual health, the effects of medication, sexual dysfunction, sexual orientation, gender identity, paraphilias, forensic sexology, dermatoses, and psychosexual therapy and education. ABC of Sexual Health is a practical guide for all general practitioners, family physicians, trainees and medical students wanting to improve communicating, examining and managing patients with sexual health problems. About the ABC series The new ABC series has been thoroughly updated, offering a fresh look, layout and features throughout, helping you to access information and deliver the best patient care.The newly designed books remain an essential reference tool for GPs, GP registrars, junior doctors and those in primary care, designed to address the concerns of general practitioners and provide effective study aids for doctors in training. Now offering over 70 titles, this extensive series provides you with a quick and dependable reference on a range of topics in all the major specialities. Each book in the new series now offers links to further information and articles, and a new dedicated website provides you with even more support. The ABC series is the essential and dependable source of up-to-date information for all practitioners and students in general practice. To receive automatic updates on books and journals in your specialty, join our email list. Sign up today at www.wiley.com/email




Psychological and Medical Perspectives on Fertility Care and Sexual Health


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Psychological and Medical Perspectives on Fertility Care and Sexual Health provides the necessary specialized training of sexual dysfunction and sex therapy to those in reproductive medicine. Understanding and knowledge about these sexual dysfunctions is needed for reproductive specialists to identify sexual problems, provide treatment if they are able or make appropriate referrals, and coordinate care for more specialized and specific needs as part of the patients overall reproductive medical management. This must-have reference explores the intimate interface of sexuality and fertility, male and female sexual function, cultural influences on women, Eastern medicine, and more! - Provides the first-of-its-kind book for clinicians that summarizes literature and interventions and brings together the current researchers and thinkers on this topic - Explores diverse populations typically left out, including lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender individuals, women and people of color - Presents a treatment dilemma for many health care providers: should one condition be treated before the other or should concurrent services be offered? - Identifies common sexual problems/dysfunctions presented by infertility patients - Describes interventions for these problems and identifies resources for appropriate treatment of sexual dysfunction




Sexuality, Health and Human Rights


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Sexuality, Health and Human Rights surveys the rapid changes taking place at the start of the twenty-first century in the social, cultural, political and economic domains and their impact on sexuality, health and human rights.




Sexual Health


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VOLUME 1 Psychological Foundations CONTENTS: Sexual health: Definitions and construct development; Health benefits of sexual expression; Love and sexual health; Evolution and the adaptive significance of asexual, sexual, and erotic touch; Touch as the primary element of sensual and erotic expression; Facilitating positive sexual communication; Childhood sexuality; Magical age of 10; Gender identity: From dualism to diversity; Orientations: GLBTQ; Sexuality: Young and middle adulthood; Sexuality at midlife and beyond; The direct and indirect impact of childhood abuse and neglect on sexuality; Mental health, mental illness, and sexuality. VOLUME 2 Physical foundations CONTENTS Systems that contribute to sexual response and expression; Role of the brain and nervous system; Hormones and female sexuality; Hormones involved in male sexual function; Circulatory system; Sexual anatomy and physiology: An overview; Pregnancy and sexuality; Menopause and sexuality; Sexual changes in the aging male; Effects of drug and alcohol abuse on sexual function; Sexual pain disorders; Meeting the challenge: Providing comprehensive sexuality services to people with intellectual disabilities; Neurological impairment of sexuality in men and women; Chronic conditions and disability. VOLUME 3 Moral and cultural foundations CONTENTS: Public health perspectives in sexual health; Classical Jewish perspectives on sex; Catholic culture and sexual health; Sexual value systems and sexual health; Sex in America: From below the Victorian belt to the start of modern dating; Cultural perspectives on orgasm embedded in medicine, science, philosophy, and literature; Cultural influences on African American sexuality: The role of multiple identities on kinship, power, and ideology; Native American culture and sex; Contrasts and contradictions: a brief look at the construction of sexuality in Mexico; Eros in the Dragon empire: the open door to sex in China: Sex and sexual dysfunction in the Middle Eastern Culture; Female genital cutting: Understanding the tradition; Sexual identities of gay men and lesbians: Cultural foundations and controversies; Sex sells: Business, politics, and the U.S. Media; Adolescent sexuality viewed through two different cultural lenses; Importance of broad-based human sexuality education as the context for sexual health instruction. VOLUME 4 State-of-the-art treatments and research CONTENTS: Sexual problems and dysfunctions in men; psychological and relationship aspects of male sexuality; Pharmacological treatment of male erectile dysfunction; Devices used for the treatment of sexual dysfunctions in men; Womens sexual problems and concerns; Therapy update for women: The treatment of low libido in women using an integrated biopsychosocial approach; Spiritual dimensions of sexual health: Broadening clinical perspectives of womens desire; Gender variability: Transsexuals, crossdressers, and others; Physical therapy and sexual health; Understanding family planning, birth control, and contraception; Sexually transmitted infections; Sexual rehabilitation after cancer; Access to pleasure: On-ramp to specific information on disability, illness and changes throughout the life span; Iatrogenic causes of female sexual disorders;