Gender bias in medicine

Women's Health

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 237-243

  Hamberg, Katarina ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Doing gender; Gender bias; Gender stereotypes; Medical research; Sex

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CULTURAL FACTOR; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMININITY; GENDER BIAS; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMAN; MASCULINITY; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PERCEPTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX ROLE; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHYSICIANS; PREJUDICE; SEX FACTORS; STEREOTYPING;

EID: 44649087864     PISSN: 17455057     EISSN: 17455065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/17455057.4.3.237     Document Type: Article

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