Kylie O'Brien, Carolyn Bosak

Medicinal Cannabis in Women's Health

An Evidence-Based Clinician's Guide

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the scientific evidence for the medical use of cannabis in the treatment of common conditions affecting women. It canvasses the current state of scientific research into medicinal cannabis for the treatment of these conditions and includes case studies to illustrate how it may be used in clinical practice.

The volume is set out in nine chapters. The first chapter introduces the book and discusses some of the history of medicinal cannabis in women s health and the prohibition of cannabis in the US, the evidence-based medicine approach, and types of research designs. Chapter 2 discusses the endocannabinoid system, the key constituents of cannabis and their therapeutic actions, forms of medicinal cannabis, routes of delivery, and safety aspects associated with medicinal cannabis. Chapters 3 through 8 cover medical conditions that commonly impact women, including stress, anxiety, depression, chronic pelvic pain, endometriosis, primary dysmenorrhea, menopause symptoms, including insomnia, and osteoarthritis. The structure of each of these chapters follows a similar pattern: a description of the condition, its prevalence, impact and comorbidities, and a brief description of pathophysiology and current treatments. The authors then discuss how the endocannabinoid system is involved, and the scientific evidence that medicinal cannabis may be efficacious. Each chapter closes with a case study. Chapter 9 focuses on some of the clinical issues that are important to consider in treating women and what is needed in terms of research.

Medicinal Cannabis in Women s Health: An Evidence-Based Clinician's Guide will be of great interest to medical practitioners, nurses, pharmacists, and other healthcare practitioners who prescribe medicinal cannabis, are considering prescribing medical cannabis, or simply want to be informed about the evidence base of its use in common conditions facing women.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer / Springer Nature Switzerland / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 89515822, 978-3-032-01736-9
• Seitenzahl: 399
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm
• ISBN-13: 9783032017369
• ISBN-10: 303201736X
• Artikelnr.: 74820785

Autorenporträt

Professor Dr Kylie O’Brien PhD, MPH, BAppSc(ChinMed), BSc(Optom), Grad Cert Tert Ed Originally an optometrist, Professor Kylie O’Brien career-changed to Chinese medicine, developing a career as an academic where she created three Master degrees in Chinese medicine and coordinated undergraduate and postgraduate courses. She then took on senior educational leadership roles within the Australian university and private education sector, before moving into the integrative medicine field around 2016. She entered the medicinal cannabis field in 2018, becoming one of Australia’s leading healthcare practitioner educators in medicinal cannabis. In 2021, she set up the International College of Cannabinoid Medicine, an online learning platform for healthcare practitioners focused on the evidence base of medicinal cannabis. An experienced clinical researcher, she led a two-year observational study investigating the effectiveness and safety of medicinal cannabis, focused on: chronic pain, anxiety, PTSD and multiple sclerosis. She is currently involved in clinical research into the effectiveness of medicinal cannabis in women’s health including studies in primary dysmenorrhoea and menopause symptoms. She has written two books: O’Brien & Blair, Medicinal Cannabis and CBD in Mental Healthcare, Switzerland: Springer, 2021 and O’Brien & Sali, A Clinician’s Guide to Integrative Oncology: What You Should Be Talking About with Cancer Patients and Why, Switzerland: Springer 2017. She is an Adjunct Professor at Torrens University, an Adjunct Fellow of the NICM Health Research Institute (Western Sydney University), a member of the Australian government’s Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) Expert Panel and I have just stepped down from it. Dr Carolyn Bosak (MBBS FRACGP) Dr Carolyn Bosak graduated from the University of Melbourne in 1997 and qualified as a general practitioner in 2002. In her 20+ years working in a busy, inner-city practice, her approach evolved as she began to appreciate the true foundations of achieving and maintaining optimal health and well-being and so furthered her interest in integrative health by also working at National Institute of Integrative Medicine. In the relatively early days of its use in Australia, Carolyn trained in medicinal cannabis in 2020 and consulted in one of Australia’s first bricks-and-mortar dedicated medicinal cannabis clinics, where she also trained and mentored other doctors, and was involved in clinical research, as well as wider education of peers. In 2022 she founded her clinic Your Integrated Health, practising holistic health through long, in-depth consultations designed to get to the source of her patient’s health problems. Medicinal cannabis is utilised judiciously as part of her integrative approach. Carolyn has long been an advocate for health, with regular speaking roles on many matters of adult and child health. Outside of work, she keeps fit, training and racing in short- and long-course triathlons.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. The Endocannabinoid System and Medicinal Cannabis.- Chapter 3. Stress, Anxiety and Depression.- Chapter 4. Chronic Pelvic Pain.- Chapter 5. Endometriosis.- Chapter 6. Primary Dysmenorrhoea.- Chapter 7. Menopause.- Chapter 8. Osteoarthritis.- Chapter 9 Conclusion.