Integrative Women's Health

Women have made it clear that they desire a broader, integrative approach to their care. Here, for the first time, Integrative Women's Health weaves together the best of conventional treatments with mind-body interventions, nutritional strategies, herbal therapies, dietary supplements, acupuncture, and manual medicine, providing clinicians with a roadmap for practicing comprehensive integrative care.
Presenting the best evidence in a concise, accessible format, and written exclusively by female clinicians, this text addresses many aspects of women's health, including feminine perspectives on aging, spirituality and sexuality, specific recommendations for the treatment of cardiovascular disease, rheumatoid arthritis, HIV, headaches, multiple sclerosis, depression, anxiety, and cancer, as well as integrative approaches to premenstrual syndrome, pregnancy, menopause, fibroids, and endometriosis. Homeopathic, Ayurvedic and traditional Chinese medicine practitioners provide insight into the ways in which these systems manage reproductive conditions.
As leading educators in integrative medicine, editors Dr. Maizes and Dr. Low Dog demonstrate how clinicians can implement their recommendations in practice, but they also go beyond practical care to examine how to motivate patients, enhance a health history, and understand the spiritual dimensions of healing.

Victoria Maizes, MD, is Executive Director of the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona Tieraona Low Dog, MD, is the Director of the Fellowship at the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona

Part I. Lifestyle
1) Philosophy of Integrative Women's Health - Tieraona Low Dog and Victoria Maizes 2) Nutrition - Wendy Kohatsu 3) Dietary supplements - Mary Hardy 4) Physical activity - Patricia Lebensohn 5) Mind-Body practices - Rita Benn 6) Women, Soul Wounds and Integrative Medicine - Beverly Lanzetta
Part II. Systems and Modalities 7) Traditional Chinese Medicine - Leslie McGee 8) Ayurveda - Prema Patel 9) Energy Medicine - Ann Marie Chiasson 10) Homeopathy - Pam Pappas and Iris Bell 11) Manual medicine - Cheryl Hawk and Raheleh Khorsan
Part III. Reproductive Health 12) Premenstrual Syndrome - Daphne Miller 13) Vaginitis - Priscilla Abercrombie 14) Pregnancy and Lactation - Jacqueline Paytel 15) Perinatal depression - Marlene Freeman 16) The role of stress in infertility - Beate Ditzen, Tammy Louckes, Sarah Berga 17) Polycystic Ovary Syndrome - Bridget Bongaard 18) Endometriosis - MargEva Morris Cole 19) Chronic Pelvic Pain - Bettina Herbert 20) Uterine Fibroids - Jo Perron 21) Cervical cancer - Lise Alschuler 22) Breast cancer - Susan Love and Dixie Mills 23) Menopause - Tori Hudson 24) Sexuality - Lana Holstein
Part IV. Common Illnesses in Women 25) Urinary Tract Infections - Priscilla Abercrombie 26) Irritable Bowel Syndrome - Cynthia Robertson 27) Headaches - Kelly McCann 28) Fibromyalgia - Chronic fatigue Melinda Ring 29) Rheumatoid arthritis - Nisha Manek 30) Multiple Sclerosis - Patty Ammon 31) HIV - Karen Konkel 32) Anxiety - Robbie Lee 33) Depression - Naomi Lam and Sudha Prathikanti 34) Eating disorders - Carolyn Ross 35) Cardiovascular health - Vivian Kominos 36) Osteoporosis - Louise Gagne 37) Aging - Birgit Rakel and Elizabeth R. Mackenzie 38) Women's Health: An Epilogue - Tieraona Low Dog and Victoria Maizes