Abstract
The ethical implications of the medical community’s failure to differentiate sex- and gender-based medicine from women’s health
Highlights
In 2001, the Institute of Medicine released a report titled Exploring the Biological Contributions to Human Health: Does Sex Matter? [4]
Tashjian A (2017) The ethical implications of the medical community’s failure to differentiate sex- and gender-based medicine from women’s health as well as the establishment of legislation related to the discipline
In 1990, the Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH) was established by the National Institute of Health (NIH) following the failed enactment of the Women’s Health Equity Act by the Congressional Caucus on Women’s Issues, which had sought to improve the delivery of health services to women [7,8]
Summary
Sex- and Gender-Based Medicine (SGBM) developed predominantly from the field of women’s health, which itself emerged from the Women’s Health Movement beginning in the 1960s [5,6]. “sameness” has propagated a norm based on the white male, as if this prototype were sex- and gender-neutral...A woman-centered perspective in medicine brings equity to health care, research, and education [16].
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