Inhalt: "This article describes how methodologies of EU-funded research within the life sciences
and biomedicine have recently become more gender sensitive. This transformation is
the result of the Gender Impact Assessments of the EU Fifth Framework Programme, commissioned
in 2000-1. The authors assessed the research programme for life sciences, which includes
a large health-related component. The new guidelines for research emphasize the need
for clear terminology for concepts of sex and gender and for a distinction to be made
between the two, for both life sciences and health research. Attention to possible
sex differences, even in preclinical research, as well as to effects of gender, will
lead to more adequate research data that serve the health of both men and women. The
transformation to research becoming more gender-sensitive is further discussed in
the context of feminist theory on the body. Being fully aware of the fact that what
is happening in bodies is mediated by particular technologies, the authors make an
appeal to invest in concepts that take the living and changing body into account."
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Schlagwörter:EU; Gender; Medizin; Lebenswissenschaften
CEWS Kategorie:Europa und Internationales
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz