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Sex Matters: How Male-Centric Medicine Endangers Women’s Health and What We Can Do About It
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91/100Author:
Alyson J. McGregor
Publisher:
Hachette Go
Date:
May 19, 2020
A Brown University physician and professor shows how all medical research and practice is based on male-centric models that ignore the unique biological and emotional differences between men and womenâan omission that endangers women's lives.
What The Reviewers Say
... [a] widely researched, convincing look at how male-centric medicine came to be, how it works in practice, and how it jeopardizes the health of women in America and around the world.
The unconscious sex bias in medical knowledge...is fairly jaw-dropping stuff.
The author is to be commended for showing how medicine has long skewed male and harmed women. Especially spot-in are the later chapters on implicit bias, treatment of women of color, and issues affecting trans individuals. The author concludes with to-do lists, questions women can ask their providers, and suggestions for advocacy roles to raise awareness of the issues. Good ammunition for mandating sex- and gender-based differences in health professional education, research, and practice..
