Book Review

Peter W. Kaplan's second edition of Neurologic Disease in Women reminds the general medical community that the sexes are not created equal. In this age of highly developed medical technology, with gene mapping and advanced therapeutic options hemmed in by the imperatives of health care networks and medical economics to minimize care, this book reminds us that women with neurologic disease deserve special attention. From the beginning, when reproductive hormones determine the sex of a fetus, these same hormones set the stage for later susceptibility to certain diseases that have a sex predilection for women. The expression of reproductive hormones . . .