Overview
- Addresses the challenges of both endocrine and non-endocrine care of transgender patients, from hormone therapy to gender reassignment surgery
- Provides discussion of psychological, legal, ethical and social issues surrounding transgender patient care
- An excellent resource for practicing endocrinologists, primary care physicians and allied medical professionals
Part of the book series: Contemporary Endocrinology (COE)
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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About this book
The goal of this volume is not only to address the latest in hormonal therapy for transgender individuals (including pediatric and geriatric age groups), but also to familiarize the reader with other aspects of transgender care, including primary and surgical care, fertility preservation, and the management of HIV infection. In addition to medical issues, psychological, social, ethical and legal issues pertinent to transgender individuals add to the complexities of successful treatment of these patients. A final chapter includes extensive additional resources for both transgender patients and providers. Thus, an endocrinologist providing care to a transgender person will be able to use this single resource to address most of the patient’s needs.
While Transgender Medicine is intended primarily for endocrinologists, this book will be also useful to primary care physicians, surgeons providing gender-confirming procedures, mental health professionals participating in the care of transgender persons, and medical residents and students.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Wylie C. Hembree, MD, Columbia University, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Transgender Medicine
Book Subtitle: A Multidisciplinary Approach
Editors: Leonid Poretsky, Wylie C. Hembree
Series Title: Contemporary Endocrinology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05683-4
Publisher: Humana Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-05682-7Published: 15 March 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-05683-4Published: 22 February 2019
Series ISSN: 2523-3785
Series E-ISSN: 2523-3793
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 481
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 24 illustrations in colour
Topics: Endocrinology, Primary Care Medicine