Hamberg Katarina
Institutionen för folkhälsa och klinisk medicin, enheten för allmänmedicin, Umeå universitet.
Lakartidningen. 2003 Dec 4;100(49):4078-83.
Gender perspective in medicine implies that people are seen as biological as well as social and cultural creatures and the concept of wholeness is important. Still, it is common that biological explanations dominate when gender differences in various symptoms and disorders are discussed in medicine and medical training. Applying a gender perspective implies a change in that attention is then also paid to social conditions for men and women in various contexts, for example in education, on the labour market, and in different ethnic groups, parallel and simultaneously to biological causes. In this article it is shown that a gender perspective is relevant in many fields of medical training. A gender perspective can bring new insights in education about the healthy and diseased body, investigation and treatment of disease, communication and the patient-doctor-relationship, as well as career and speciality choices. The need for education of teachers on gender issues is a crucial issue for those responsible for the academic syllabus.
医学中的性别视角意味着人们被视为生物、社会和文化的综合体，整体性的概念很重要。然而，在医学和医学培训中讨论各种症状和疾病的性别差异时，生物学解释占据主导地位仍是常见现象。应用性别视角意味着一种转变，即随后也要关注男性和女性在各种情境下的社会状况，例如在教育、劳动力市场以及不同种族群体中，同时兼顾生物学原因。本文表明，性别视角在医学培训的许多领域都具有相关性。性别视角可以为关于健康和患病身体的教育、疾病的调查与治疗、沟通以及医患关系，还有职业和专业选择带来新的见解。对于负责学术课程大纲的人来说，教师的性别问题教育需求是一个关键问题。
