Sanghvi Riti
Third Year MBBS Student, Grant Government Medical College and Sir JJ Hospital, Mumbai, India.
Indian J Med Ethics. 2019 Apr-Jun;4(2):148-153. doi: 10.20529/IJME.2018.097. Epub 2018 Dec 3.
Medical students have to go through an incredibly vast number of voluminous textbooks in their undergraduate years. But most of us learn next to nothing about the intricacies of the social determinants of health and the larger socio-political-cultural spaces we will have to negotiate. Without any exposure to the larger patriarchal, economic and historical systems, which are bound to collide with our textbook learning, we will be highly unprepared to locate our own biomedical skills within the larger context. The objective of this article is to analyse the current level of gender sensitivity in the textbooks being used for undergraduate medical training, and the potential impact that this has on developing attitudes towards a gender and rights-based approach.
医学生在本科阶段必须研读数量惊人的大量教科书。但我们大多数人对健康的社会决定因素的复杂性以及我们必须应对的更广泛的社会政治文化空间几乎一无所知。如果没有接触到必然会与我们的教科书知识发生冲突的更大的父权制、经济和历史体系，我们将极无准备地在更广阔的背景中定位自己的生物医学技能。本文的目的是分析本科医学培训所用教科书中当前的性别敏感度水平，以及这对培养基于性别和权利的态度可能产生的影响。
