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Medicine claims to be based upon “objective” science; yet its content is biased to uphold certain ideologies and research priorities. The questions—both asked and unasked—reflect the interests of the technical experts, the white, affluent men who control both medicine and research science.
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Punnett, L. (1980). Women-Controlled Research. In: Holmes, H.B., Hoskins, B.B., Gross, M. (eds) Birth Control and Controlling Birth. Contemporary Issues in Biomedicine, Ethics, and Society. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-6005-9_7
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