Open AccessShould Women's Health be a Medical Specialty
Author(s) -
Taline Papazian
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
al-raida
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2226-4841
pISSN - 0259-9953
DOI - 10.32380/alrj.v0i0.1015
Subject(s) - specialty , medicine , family medicine , geriatrics , health care , affect (linguistics) , alternative medicine , nursing , psychiatry , psychology , economics , economic growth , communication , pathology
A few months ago, I came across several articles about a new specialty in medicine focusing on women's health. The proponents of this specialty were concerned with women's total health needs much as pediatrics is with children or geriatrics with old people. "Its practitioners would be trained in everything from managing menopause to spotting abuse, with a focus on the growing body of research on how diseases and drugs act differently in women than in men"