Introduction ix
Chapter 1 Skin Integumentary: It's What's Inside That Counts 1
Chapter 2 Bones Skeletal: Skulls and Whalebones 30
Chapter 3 Muscle Muscular: Who's the Weakest of Them All? 59
Chapter 4 Blood Circulatory: Matters of the Heart 85
Chapter 5 Breath Respiratory: Perhaps Women Breathe Different Air 114
Chapter 6 Guts Digestive: The Price of Going (And Not Going) with Your Gut 136
Chapter 7 Bladder Urinary: A Thousand Years of Holding It In 166
Chapter 8 Defense Immune: Self-Sabotage 191
Chapter 9 Nerves Nervous: The "Bitches Be Crazy" School of Medicine 222
Chapter 10 Hormones Endocrine: The Hormone Hangover 256
Chapter 11 Sex Reproductive: The Mother of All Moral Panics 288
Conclusion 318
Acknowledgments 327
Index 335