Sex-and gender-sensitive medicine has evolved from a feminist approach into an innovative
cross-cutting approach to doing medicine. In the present chapter we define what sex and …

As we move through the 21st century one of the most important health issues facing both
men and women is to understand how social forces shape biology and human health, which …

The case for sex-and gender-sensitivity in (bio) medicine and health is becoming more and
more compelling. Funding agencies in Europe [1], Canada [2] and the USA [3] are …

In this paper I introduce the field of Gender Medicine: what does it represent, what are
current activities and which outlook for the future does it offer? First a short historical …

An exploration of how to bring medicine into the twenty-first century with our understanding
of gender and sex differences. Over millions of years, male and female bodies developed …

Sex and gender play a pivotal role in health and disease. Differences can be identified in
symptoms, biomarkers, lifetime experiences of diseases, incidence, prevalence, therapeutic …

The announcement that we had decoded the human genome in 2000 ushered in a new and
unique era in biomedical research and clinical medicine. This Third Edition of Principles of …

Sex and gender in biomedicine are innovative research concepts of theoretical and clinical
medicine that enable a better understanding of health and disease, evidence-based …

Sex and gender are increasingly recognized as major influencing factors in disorders across
all medical specialties. Even though there is ample evidence of sex and gender differences …

Historic presumptions that men and women differ in intellectual capacity, especially in math-
intensive fields, plunged the gender debate into neuroscience. Scientists have explored …