TY - JOUR
T1 - Untying the gordian knot
T2 - What we do and don't know about gender-specific medicine - Keynote address for the 2014 academic emergency medicine consensus conference
AU - Legato, Marianne
PY - 2014/12/1
Y1 - 2014/12/1
N2 - Over the past two decades, a burgeoning interest in women's health, the direct consequence of the feminist movement, has inspired a worldwide interest in the differences between the normal function of men and women and their unique experiences of the same illnesses. The scope and significance of what we have discovered and continue to find has fundamentally changed the way we prevent, diagnose, and treat diseases. Important questions remain, however, and deserve specific investigation and analysis.
AB - Over the past two decades, a burgeoning interest in women's health, the direct consequence of the feminist movement, has inspired a worldwide interest in the differences between the normal function of men and women and their unique experiences of the same illnesses. The scope and significance of what we have discovered and continue to find has fundamentally changed the way we prevent, diagnose, and treat diseases. Important questions remain, however, and deserve specific investigation and analysis.
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U2 - 10.1111/acem.12533
DO - 10.1111/acem.12533
M3 - Article
C2 - 25491705
AN - SCOPUS:84919919356
SN - 1069-6563
VL - 21
SP - 1320
EP - 1324
JO - Academic Emergency Medicine
JF - Academic Emergency Medicine
IS - 12
ER -