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Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 11:08:30 -0500
To: MedSoc@csf.colorado.edu
From: Sue Hinze <sxh3@po.cwru.edu>
Subject: women and drug trials
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Dear colleagues,

A student e-mailed the following request; any suggestions?  Thanks and
please respond privately (unless you think the list would benefit):

sxh3@po.cwru.edu

Dear Dr. Hinze,
> I am a graduate student in the Bioethics dept.  I
>spoke to you mid- semester about a research paper that I'm doing on the
>exclusion of women from drug trials.  I came upon an article which
>discusses how women have been controlled to a certain extent by social
>institutions.  It's only about a paragraph long, but I would appreciate it
>if you could direct to a few sources that might help me.  The article I
>have is by Vanessa Merton and is entitled, "Review Essay: Women and Health
>Research".  She states that, "Because social institutions are accustomed to
>denying women the right to make decisions about their own welfare and that
>of their offspring, it seems unremarkable for government regulators or
>academic and industry scientists to decide whether a given woman, or women
>as a class, can participate in a clinical trial."  I am also aware of the
>fact that women scientists as a group have beeen actively discriminated
>against by the NIH.  I'm very interested in this aspect of the exclusion of
>women from drug trials.  I'm particularly looking at how women have been
>denied rights at an institutional level, throughout history.  Please, any
>sources you could direct me to would be of great help.  
>Thank you,
>linda

Susan W. Hinze, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Case Western Reserve University
10900 Euclid Ave.
Cleveland, OH  44106-7124

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