Sex, gender, and health biotechnology: points to consider
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : Jerome Amir Singh*1,2,3,4, Sunita Bandewar3 and Peter A Singer3
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2009
Description
Background: Reproductive technologies have been extensively debated in the literature. As well, feminist economists, environmentalists, and agriculturalists have generated substantial debate and literature on gender. However, the implications for women of health biotechnologies have received relatively less attention. Surprisingly, while gender based frameworks have been proposed in the context of public health policy, practice, health research, and epidemiological research, we could identify no systematic framework for gender analysis of health biotechnology in the developing world. Discussion: We propose sex and gender considerations at five critical stages of health biotechnology research and development: priority setting; technology design; clinical trials; commercialization, and health services delivery. Summary: Applying a systematic sex and gender framework to five key process stages of health biotechnology research and development could be a first step towards unlocking the opportunities of this promising science for women in the developing world.
Published: 21 July 2009 BMC International Health and Human Rights 2009, 9:15 doi:10.1186/1472-698X-9-15 Received: 27 January 2009 Accepted: 21 July 2009 This article is available from: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-698X/9/15
