Women and Health Research: Ethical and Legal Issues of Including Women in Clinical Studies, Volume 1

by Anna C. Mastroianni and Ruth Faden

In the nineteenth century some scientists argued that women should not be educated because thinking would use energy needed by the uterus for reproduction. The proof? Educated women had a lower birth rate. Today's researchers can only shake their heads at such reasoning. Yet professional journals and the popular press are increasingly criticizing medical research for ignoring women's health issues.

Women and Health Research examines...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 030904992X
• ISBN13: 9780309049924
• Release Date: February 1994
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"