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Gender perspective in medicine : a vital part of medical scientific rationality. A useful model for comprehending structures and hierarchies within medical science.
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- Risberg, Gunilla, 1944- (author)
- Umeå universitet,Allmänmedicin
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- Hamberg, Katarina, 1952- (author)
- Umeå universitet,Allmänmedicin
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- Johansson, Eva (author)
- Umeå universitet,Allmänmedicin
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- 2006-08-24
- 2006
- English.
- In: BMC Medicine. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1741-7015. ; :4, s. 20-
- Journal article (peer-reviewed)
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- BACKGROUND: During the past few decades, research has reported gender bias in various areas of clinical and academic medicine. To prevent such bias, a gender perspective in medicine has been requested, but difficulties and resistance have been reported from implementation attempts. Our study aimed at analysing this resistance in relation to what is considered good medical research.METHOD: We used a theoretical model, based on scientific competition, to understand the structures of scientific medicine and how they might influence the resistance to a gender perspective in medicine. The model was originally introduced to discuss how pluralism improves rationality in the social sciences.RESULTS: The model provided a way to conceptualise different fields of research in medicine: basic research, applied research, medical philosophy, and 'empowering' research. It clarified how various research approaches within medicine relate to each other, and how they differ and compete. It also indicated why there might be conflicts between them: basic and applied research performed within the biomedical framework have higher status than gender research and other research approaches that are performed within divergent research paradigms.CONCLUSION: This hierarchy within medical research contributes to the resistance to a gender perspective, causing gender bias and making medical scientific rationality suboptimal. We recommend that the theoretical model can be applied in a wider medical context when different and hierarchically arranged research traditions are in conflict. In this way, the model might contribute to shape a medical community where scientific pluralism is acknowledged to enlarge, not to disturb, the scientific rationality of medicine.
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- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Annan samhällsvetenskap -- Genusstudier (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Other Social Sciences -- Gender Studies (hsv//eng)
- MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP -- Klinisk medicin -- Allmänmedicin (hsv//swe)
- MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES -- Clinical Medicine -- General Practice (hsv//eng)
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- Biomedical Research/*methods/trends
- Female
- Humans
- Male
- Medicine/*methods/trends
- Models; Biological
- Prejudice
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