Overview
- Editors:
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Mindy Aisen
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Burke Rehabilitation Hospital, White Plains, USA
Cornell University Medical College, New York, USA
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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- Mindy Aisen, Alex Kirschenbaum
Pages 1-12
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- Audrey Sorgen Sanders, Alan D. Blau
Pages 73-92
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- Mary K. McDonald, Alexander W. Dromerick
Pages 93-111
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- Jennifer Michaels, Vicki Barnett
Pages 133-144
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- Lee Shaughnessy, Mary Schuchman, Mohamed Ghumra, Patricia Daily, Jack S. Burks
Pages 169-195
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- Andrew Hornstein, Glenn Seliger
Pages 207-218
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Back Matter
Pages 239-244
About this book
This well-written text thoroughly addresses two quality of life issues in patients with a variety of neurological disorders: sexual and reproductive function. The de vasta stating effects of a variety of neurological diseases are well known to both the lay and medical communitIes, and are treated in numerous texts. However, as we continue to experience therapeutic breakthroughs in the tields of neurology and rehabilitation medicine, physicians and patients must become more aware of the issues discussed in this text. It is particularly important, as emphasized throughout the chapters, that the physician or therapist initiate conversations with the patients concerning both the possibility of parenting a child, as well as the ability of the patient to enhance his/her sexual functioning. Commonly in the patient who is otherwise perfectly normal, there is a reluctance to discuss these topics and couples often feel embarrassed to initiate a conversation with their physi cians. This reluctance to initiate a discussion is even more apparent in patients with a variety of neurological disorders, in which there are overriding fears concerning both function and survival, as well as deep concerns about their own attractiveness, and their sexual and repro ductive ability.
Editors and Affiliations
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Burke Rehabilitation Hospital, White Plains, USA
Mindy Aisen
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Cornell University Medical College, New York, USA
Mindy Aisen
