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DEI Titles

Transgender and Gender Diverse Health Care: The Fenway Guide

The first case-based comprehensive textbook to address the unique health care needs of transgender and gender diverse adult. Demand for state-of-the-art health care services for transgender and gender diverse communities is rapidly increasing. Transgender and Gender Diverse Health Care: The Fenway Guide offers a roadmap for clinicians to provide culturally responsive care that meets the primary, preventive, and specialty health needs of transgender and gender diverse adult patients.

With the most up-to-date scientific and clinical information, this practical guide reviews new data on terminology, demographics, and epidemiology; highlights key aspects of gender identity emergence across the lifespan; and provides guidance on both hormonal and surgical gender affirmation. Applying a health-equity model of care, this invaluable resource offers a foundation for clinicians when addressing health needs of transgender and gender diverse communities.

Transgender and Gender Diverse Health Care: The Fenway Guide features essential information that includes the following topics and more:

The history and epidemiology of transgender and gender diverse health care
Primary, preventive, and specialty care considerations for transgender and
gender diverse patients
Hormonal, surgical and non-medical gender affirmation
Trauma-informed and gender-affirming care
Behavior health, eating disorders and body positivity
Reproductive health, obstetrical care, and family building
Treatment of HIV and sexually transmitted infections
Community building, advocacy and partnership

(Source: McGraw Hill)

Taylor and Kelly's Dermatology for Skin of Color, 2e

The highly anticipated update of the complete textbook of dermatologic science and practice focusing on the care of patients with moderately to heavily pigmented skin – 21 new chapters with more than 900 photographs!

Dermatology for Skin of Color, Second Edition is a comprehensive reference that thoroughly details every aspect of dermatologic science as it applies to skin of color – from the development of the skin to the biology of hair and nails. All commonly encountered dermatologic problems of Africans, Asians, Arabs, Native Americans, and other peoples are covered, as are other diseases with significant skin manifestations.

This second edition is significantly expanded with 21 new chapters covering dermatology for geriatric, adolescent, and pregnant patients, as well as depigmenting agents, viral infections, cutaneous manifestation of internal malignancy, neurofibromatosis, tuberous sclerosis, photoaging, photosensivity, laser treatment for skin-tightening, toxins and fillers, cosmetic practices in Mexico, effects of tattooing and piercing, sickle cell disease, drug eruptions, and the biology of oral mucosa. It also features many more clinical pictures and improved organization.

Extensively illustrated with more than 900 full-color photos, Dermatology for Skin of Color provides comprehensive coverage of medical, surgical, and cosmetic treatment options, pediatric dermatology, differences between skin of color and Caucasian skin, differences between ethnic groups with skin of color, and important basic science information on the structure and function of skin of color. In addition, folk remedies and over-the-counter treatments specifically targeting this population are covered.

(Source: McGraw Hill)

Medical Management of Vulnerable and Underserved Patients: Principles, Practice, and Populations, 2e

The leading reference and text on caring for underserved patients and those with highly unique health requirements updated and expanded in full color. Medical Management of Vulnerable and Underserved Patients: Principles, Practice and Populations, Second Edition is designed to clarify current issues and instruct you in best practices and compliance with legislation, such as the Affordable Care Act, when caring for patients living with chronic diseases in poor and minority populations. How do these laws affect you, your practice, and patient care?

Medical Management of Vulnerable and Underserved Patients is ideally suited for clinical and educational programs and policy-oriented institutions concerned with addressing health disparities and caring for the underserved and vulnerable patient. Comprehensive in scope and authored by many of the leading names in the field, the book takes complex concepts and issues and helps you understand them, resulting in a “roadmap” to guide real-world applications and compliance with the terms of the law. Each chapter integrates key concepts, core competencies, and common pitfalls and concludes with useful lists of web resources and stimulating discussion questions.

(Source: McGraw Hill)

Emotion in the Clinical Encounter

The foundational knowledge and practical actions you need to effectively address your patients’ emotions—and manage your own. Emotions are ever-present in the context of illness and medical care and can have an enormous impact on the well-being of patients and healthcare providers alike. Despite this impact, emotions are often devalued in a medical culture that praises stoicism and analytical reasoning. Featuring the latest theories and research on emotion in healthcare, this much-needed resource will help you build the necessary skillset to navigate the extraordinary emotional demands of practicing medicine.

Emotion in the Clinical Encounter will help you:

Learn the science of emotion, as it relates to clinical care
Understand the role of emotion in illness
Recognize the connection between clinical response to patient emotions and
care outcomes
Develop effective strategies for emotion recognition
Build strong emotional dialogue skills for medical encounters
Identify biases that may shape clinical interactions and subsequent outcomes
Understand emotion regulation in patients, providers, and in the clinical relationship
Address challenges and opportunities for clinical emotional wellness
Identify a new path forward for delivering emotion-based medical school curricula

(Source: McGraw Hill)