The science of difference: The invisibility of women in health sciences

Autores/as

  • Carme Valls-Llobet Centro de Análisis y Programas Sanitarios, CAPS, in Barcelona (Spain).

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7203/metode.7.8155

Palabras clave:

gender and health, differential morbidity, gender perspective, equality, differences

Resumen

Women remained invisible in health sciences until the late twentieth century because they were not included in the cohorts used in researched studies. Thanks to the work done by different groups of feminist researchers, we were able to visualise the need to change those paradigms. But while gender perspectives have allowed us to research new aspects of science, gender has sometimes contributed to rendering female-specific health issues as invisible. For women to be treated equally, their differences have to be recognised, precisely so that the equal right of both sexes to quality of life can be defended. Therefore, the science of difference should be included in research and taught in all health science specialisations.

 

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Biografía del autor/a

Carme Valls-Llobet, Centro de Análisis y Programas Sanitarios, CAPS, in Barcelona (Spain).

Graduate in Medicine and Surgery in 1968. She is an internal medicine and endocrinology assistant, and the director of the Woman, Health, and Quality of Life Programme at the Centre for Health Care Analysis and Programmes (Centro de Análisis y Programas Sanitarios, CAPS) in Barcelona (Spain), where she focuses on research and education about health, women, and gender issues. She has promoted a network of female health professionals in Spain, the Red-Caps, and is the author of several papers and the books Mujeres y hombres: Salud y diferencias (Folio, 1994), Mujeres invisibles (Debolsillo 2006), and Mujeres, salud y poder (Cátedra, 2009).

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2017-06-20

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Valls-Llobet, C. (2017). The science of difference: The invisibility of women in health sciences. Metode Science Studies Journal, (7), 121–125. https://doi.org/10.7203/metode.7.8155
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