Sexual Health Across The Lifecycle: A Practical Guide For Clinicians

Sexual Health across the Lifecycle A Practical Guide for Clinicians This is a practical, positive approach to sexual health promotion for clinicians in primary care. It presents sexual concerns across the lifecycle, from childhood to old age, illuminated throughout by scenarios based on real life. It highlights common sexual issues from different age groups. Additionally it has chapters on sexuality and disability, sexual minorities, HIV-positive individuals, and complementary medicine. Each chapter serves as a practical resource to facilitate better care and communication with patients. Common sexual difficulties, approach to evaluation, and interview techniques, as well as management are presented in a practical manner. Numerous illustrations will assist the clinician in advising patients with back pain, who are pregnant, or who have chronic illness on how to make adjustments to their sexual life to maximize their quality of life. It presents an invaluable resource for all health professionals that spans the need of patients from all backgrounds and age groups. Dr. Margaret Nusbaum D.O., M.P.H., is Associate Professor of Family Medicine at the University of North Carolina, in Chapel Hill, and has more than 10 years of formal teaching in sexual health, including national presentations and publications in the sexual health area. She wrote the monograph on sexual health for the American Academy of Family Physicians home study continuing medical education course. She is currently Chair for the Society of Teachers in Family Medicine Group for sexuality and sexual health. Her Board certification includes American Board of Family Physicians, American College of Osteopathic Physicians, and American Board of Public Health and Preventive Medicine. Dr. Jo Ann Rosenfeld is Assistant Professor of General Internal Medicine at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and former Professor of Family Medicine at East State Tennessee University. Her editorial responsibilities include being Associate Editor of the BMJ-USA Associate Editor of the AAFP FP-Comprehensive Monograph Course, and Associate Editor of the Johns Hopkins Advanced Studies in Internal Medicine Journal. She has also written 50 articles on women’s health and three other books on women’s health. Sexual Health across the Lifecycle A Practical Guide for Clinicians Margaret Nusbaum and Jo Ann Rosenfeld CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo, Delhi Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 8RU, UK Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521534215 © Margaret Nusbaum & Jo Ann Rosenfeld 2004 This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published 2004 A catalogue record for this publication is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication data Nusbaum, Margaret. Sexual health promotion across the lifecycle: a practical guide for clinicians/Margaret Nusbaum & Jo Ann Rosenfeld p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0 521 53421 6 (paperback) 1. Se