Sex and Gender Representations of Myocardial Infarction in German Medical Books

Gender and the Genome Pub Date : 2017-06-01 DOI:10.1089/gg.2017.0003

Sarah Hiltner, S. Oertelt-Prigione

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Abstract

Mandatory teaching of sex- and gender-specific medicine (SGSM) is an essential tool to prepare future physicians for clinical care. Textbooks still play an important role for physician training in Germany. They are one of the main sources of structured and validated information. The present study was conducted to investigate the incorporation of SGSM knowledge about myocardial infarction (MI) into the standard cardiology textbooks used for teaching by German medical faculties. Additionally, the analyzed books were screened for implicit and explicit gender bias in a qualitative manner. Ten books were selected for analysis; they were issued in the years 2008–2012 and present in 30% or more of the 36 German academic medical libraries. Quantitative and qualitative analyses of content, language, and visual representations of the sexes in discussions of MI were conducted. All of the analyzed books describe the symptoms present in male bodies as the norm and 7 of the 10 books describe women as “special” or “abnormal”; hence, they fail to address the unique experience of women suffering from MI. Sex and gender bias are widely present and the depiction of women in German cardiology textbooks is discriminatory.

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德国医学书籍中心肌梗死的性别表征

性别和性别特异性医学（SGSM）的强制性教学是为未来的医生做好临床护理准备的重要工具。教科书在德国的医生培训中仍然发挥着重要作用。它们是结构化和经过验证的信息的主要来源之一。本研究旨在调查将SGSM关于心肌梗死（MI）的知识纳入德国医学院用于教学的标准心脏病学教科书中的情况。此外，对所分析的书籍进行了定性的隐性和显性性别偏见筛查。选出10本书进行分析；它们于2008-2012年发行，在36个德国学术医学图书馆中有30%或更多的图书馆。对MI讨论中的内容、语言和性别视觉表征进行了定量和定性分析。所有被分析的书籍都将男性身体中的症状描述为常态，10本书中有7本将女性描述为“特殊”或“异常”；因此，它们未能解决患有MI的女性的独特经历。性别和性别偏见普遍存在，德国心脏病学教科书中对女性的描述是歧视性的。

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