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Sex, Gender and Health: Developments in Medical Research

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Over the past decade, three major developments have taken place in the discipline of women’s health studies. First, the concept of women and health has shifted into the concept of gender and health, which explicitly includes men and the social construction of masculinity. Women’s health studies has widened its scope to include the health of men, not only because men generally have lower life expectancy than women, but also because alcohol abuse, traffic accidents, suicides and drug addiction in men are largely attributed to traditional gender-role patterns and social conceptions of masculinity (Mansfield et al., 2003; see also Chapter 14 by Hunt et al. and Chapter 16 by Schofield).

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  1. Toine Lagro-Janssen
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  1. University of Bath, UK

    Ellen Kuhlmann

  2. University of Leicester, UK

    Ellen Annandale

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Lagro-Janssen, T. (2012). Sex, Gender and Health: Developments in Medical Research. In: Kuhlmann, E., Annandale, E. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Gender and Healthcare. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137295408_27

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