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(Psychiatry and Medicine.) By Regina C. Casper. 329 pp. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1998. $74.95. ISBN 0-521-56341-0.

Gone are the days of the standard 70-kg man. The differences between men and women in health, illness, and lifestyle have encouraged the development of women's specialty clinics and new (sometimes premature) standards of treatment. This book is a timely, refreshing, and comprehensive set of reviews of the complex interactions between psychosocial and physical aspects of women's health. Women's Health could become a useful annual review of this area of escalating research interest, of ongoing longitudinal studies of women's health, and of findings generated since 1993, when the Food and Drug Administration lifted its ban on drug trials in women. . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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