Gender Bias: From Classes to Courts
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From gender bias to gender awareness in medical education.
Gender is an essential determinant of health and illness. Gender awareness in doctors contributes to equity and equality in health and aims towards better health for men and women. Nevertheless, gender has largely been ignored in medicine. First, it is stated that medicine was 'gender blind' by not considering gender whenever relevant. Secondly, medicine is said to be 'male biased' because the ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Stanford Law Review
سال: 1993
ISSN: 0038-9765
DOI: 10.2307/1229145