Gendered innovation in health and medicine

"'Gendered Innovations' integrates sex and gender analysis into all phases of biomedical and health research to assure excellence and quality in outcomes. This article reports on the interdisciplinary, international collaboration that produced: 1) state-of-the-art methods of sex and gender analysis for health and medicine; and 2) case studies to illustrate how gender analysis leads to discovery in biomedicine and better outcomes in health research: osteoporosis research in men, the genetics of sex determination, heart disease in women, stem cell research, animal research, nutrigenomics and degendering knee implants. The article concludes with a short review of policy at the Canadian, US, and European institutes of health, medical curricula, and policies for peer-reviewed journals in relation to reporting sex/gender analysis in research." (Autorenreferat)"'Gendered Innovations' integriert eine Sex und Genderanalyse in alle Phasen der biomedizinischen und Gesundheitsforschung, um Exzellenz und Qualität auf Ergebnisseite zu sichern. Der Beitrag stellt die interdisziplinären internationalen Kooperationsbemühungen dar, in deren Rahmen sowohl zeitgemäße Methoden der geschlechterfokussierten Analyse im Bereich von Gesundheit und Medizin entwickelt als auch Fallstudien durchgeführt wurden: zur Osteoporoseforschung bei Männern, zu genetischen Faktoren der Geschlechtsbestimmung, Herzerkrankungen bei Frauen, Stammzellenforschung, Tierversuchen, Nutrigenomik und zum 'Degendering' bei Knieimplantaten. Der Beitrag schließt mit einem kurzen Blick auf kanadische, US-amerikanische und europäische Gesundheitsinstitute, medizinische Curricula und den Umgang peer-reviewter Zeitschriften mit Forschungsberichten über Sex-/Genderanalysen" (Autorenreferat

Agnotology: The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance

"This volume emerged from workshops held at Pennsylvania State University in 2003 and Stanford University in 2005"--P. vii

Embedding concepts of sex and gender health differences into medical curricula

Sex, a biological variable, and gender, a cultural variable, define the individual and affect all aspects of disease prevention, development, diagnosis, progression, and treatment. Sex and gender are essential elements of individualized medicine. However, medical education rarely considers such topics beyond the physiology of reproduction. To reduce health care disparities and to provide optimal, cost-effective medical care for individuals, concepts of sex and gender health need to become embedded into education and training of health professionals. In September 2012, Mayo Clinic hosted a 2-day workshop bringing together leading experts from 13 U.S. schools of medicine and schools of public health, Health Resources and Services Administration Office of Women\u27s Health (HRSA OWH), the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Research on Women\u27s Health (ORWH), and the Canadian Institute of Health and Gender. The purpose of this workshop was to articulate the need to integrate sex- and gender-based content into medical education and training, to identify gaps in current medical curricula, to consider strategies to embed concepts of sex and gender health into health professional curricula, and to identify existing resources to facilitate and implement change. This report summarizes these proceedings, recommendations, and action items from the workshop

Considering sex as a biological variable in preclinical research

Peer Reviewedhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/154390/1/fsb2fj201600781r.pd

Woman-Centered Design through Humanity, Activism, and Inclusion

Women account for over half of the global population, however, continue to be subject to systematic and systemic disadvantage, particularly in terms of access to health and education. At every intersection, where systemic inequality accounts for greater loss of life or limitations on full and healthy living, women are more greatly impacted by those inequalities. The design of technologies is no different, the very definition of technology is historically cast in terms of male activities, and advancements in the field are critical to improve women's quality of life. This article views HCI, a relatively new field, as well positioned to act critically in the ways that technology serve, refigure, and redefine women's bodies. Indeed, the female body remains a contested topic, a restriction to the development of women's health. On one hand, the field of women's health has attended to the medicalization of the body and therefore is to be understood through medical language and knowledge. On the other hand, the framing of issues associated with women's health and people's experiences of and within such system(s) remain problematic for many. This is visible today in, e.g., socio-cultural practices in disparate geographies or medical devices within a clinic or the home. Moreover, the biological body is part of a great unmentionable, i.e., the perils of essentialism. We contend that it is necessary, pragmatically and ethically, for HCI to turn its attention toward a woman-centered design approach. While previous research has argued for the dangers of gender-demarcated design work, we advance that designing for and with women should not be regarded as ghettoizing, but instead as critical to improving women's experiences in bodily transactions, choices, rights, and access to and in health and care. In this article, we consider how and why designing with and for woman matters. We use our design-led research as a way to speak to and illustrate alternatives to designing for and with women within HCI.QC 20200930</p