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Medicine's gender revolution: how women stopped being treated as 'small men'

  • Written by Deb Colville, Associate Professor, Monash University
imageFor a long time, medication dosages were adjusted for patient size and women were simply 'small men'.Shutterstock/The Conversation

Men and women respond differently to diseases and treatments for biological, social and psychological reasons. This is the first article in our series on Gender Medicine, where experts explore these differences and the...

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