What Your Doctor May Not Tell You about Osteoporosis or Always Separate Always Connected Independence and Interdependence in Cultural Contexts of Development

What Your Doctor May Not Tell You about Osteoporosis: Help Prevent and Even Reverse-- the Disease That Burdens Millions of Women

Author: Felicia Cosman

Did you know that white and Asian women face a 50 percent chance of osteoporosis or that a woman's risk of hip fracture is equal to her combined risk of breast, uterine, and ovarian cancer? Osteoporosis threatens 28 million American women. Armed with the latest research, renowned specialist Dr. Felicia Cosman brings an important new perspective on this disease -- and offers a balanced program for preventing and slowing bone loss. Get the facts on: Bone Density Testing: why most women should wait until menopause Medical Therapy for Pre-Menopausal Women: why it may not be the best answer. Estrogen and HRT Therapy: when should they be used? Your Personal Risk Factors: including genetics, lifestyle, and medications. Beating the Odds: how women of all ages (children too!) can benefit from a simple, preventive program of nutrition, exercise, and supplements when needed. Bisphosphonates and SERMS (Tamoxifen and Raloxifene): how these drugs may protect against bone loss and fracture. The New Bone-building Drug Forteo. Osteoporosis in Men: are men really at risk?

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments	vii
	Introduction	xi
Part I	Understanding Osteoporosis	1
Chapter 1.	My Personal Journey	3
Chapter 2.	What Is Osteoporosis?	9
Chapter 3.	The Architecture of a Disease	22
Part II	Preventing and Slowing the Effects of Osteoporosis	35
Chapter 4.	Prevention: The Universal Message	37
Chapter 5.	Prevention Step One: Reducing Risk Factors	40
Chapter 6.	Prevention Step Two: Nutrition	49
Chapter 7.	Prevention Step Three: Exercise	72
Chapter 8.	Prevention Step Four: Supplements and Vitamins?	89
Part III	Diagnosing Osteoporosis	101
Chapter 9.	Are You at Risk?	103
Chapter 10.	Getting Tested: Measuring and Reporting Bone Mass	112
Chapter 11.	Blood and Urine Tests and Radiologic Procedures	129
Part IV	Medication and Treatment	141
Chapter 12.	Fracture Care and Rehabilitation	143
Chapter 13.	Medication for Osteoporosis in Women	158
Chapter 14.	Estrogen or Hormone Therapy	165
Chapter 15.	Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulators	182
Chapter 16.	Calcitonin	193
Chapter 17.	Bisphosphonates	200
Chapter 18.	Parathyroid Hormone	214
Chapter 19.	Non-FDA-Approved Treatments	226
Chapter 20.	Monitoring Treatment	235
Part V	Special Cases	241
Chapter 21.	Men	243
Chapter 22.	The Premenopausal Woman	249
Chapter 23.	Osteoporosis Associated with Steroids	256
	Afterword: The Future	263
Appendix A	Interpreting Medical Evidence	265
Appendix B	Web Sites with Good Information about Osteoporosis	277

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Always Separate, Always Connected Independence and Interdependence in Cultural Contexts of Development

Author: Catherine Raeff

In recent years, there has been a proliferation of theoretical and empirical scholarship on how issues of human separateness, or independence, and issues of human connectedness, or interdependence, are played out in diverse cultural contexts. Despite agreement on the value of understanding culture and development in terms of independence and interdependence, many issues remain open for continued theoretical refinement and empirical analysis.

This book presents a fresh conceptualization which holds that independence and interdependence are multifaceted and inseparable dimensions of human functioning that may be defined and enacted differently in different cultures. Thus, the current approach accounts for the fundamental separateness and connectedness of all human beings in a way that is both universally applicable and culturally sensitive. Based on this conceptual approach, the focus of this text is to delineate how varied independence and interdependence issues are interrelated during development in culturally distinct ways. In doing so, the book offers a conceptual approach that moves cultural and developmental analyses beyond investigating whether some cultures value independence or interdependence more or less than others, to investigating how both independence and interdependence are construed and particularized during development around the world.

Always Separate, Always Connected: Independence and Interdependence in Cultural Contexts of Development will be of interest to a wide range of developmentalists in psychology, education, family studies, anthropology, and sociology. In addition, the book could serve advanced undergraduates, as well as graduate students in thesevaried disciplines. It may also be of interest to social welfare practitioners, such as clinical psychologists, guidance counselors, and social workers.