Exclusion of Women in Cardiovascular Disease Research
By Kelly Barnes, Justice and Legal Thought
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Jordan La
May 11, 2020
As a biomedical engineering major, this project stood out to me because I have previously heard about the discrimination of women in medical research, and was surprised to see such a blatant case inside a field I was directly interested in pursuing. I did learn that the exclusion of women from biomedical research in heart disease was not intentional and was more a byproduct of data being more readily available from male test subjects, but do agree that more needs to be done to accommodate women dealing with the disease. Are you aware of any other types of research that excludes certain groups of people?
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Sabrina LaBold
May 07, 2020
This topic is something that I had little to no knowledge of before reading your poster. Not only did this poster stand out because I wanted to see the injustices within the medical research community, but also because it was something that provided new information to me. I learned that in the past, men and women were not equally represented in public health and biomedical research. However, from your findings I learned that this was not intentional and just because data from males is more available. During your research did you find any other disease studies, in addition to cardiovascular disease, that demonstrated there was an unequal representation of data from men and women?
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Rianat Alao
May 07, 2020
Right off the bat from reading this poster, I decided to read it because it is a topic that I had been unaware of. Of course, I knew males "dominated" in STEM fields, but I did not necessarily know this was the case in the medical field. I learned that it is not intentional that they leave women, it just so happens that more male test subjects are available. I also learned that contraception is required in biomedical research, but not in public health research. When you first began your research did you think it was the males intent to leave females out in this research?
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Alice Salomon Morales
May 05, 2020
As someone who studied biological sciences for 4 years and is now learning about social injustices and inequality as it pertains to everyday interactions and occurrences, I find this project to be very interesting. I was aware of the male-centered approach in medical research but it's always shocking to see how greatly it negatively impacts women. When it comes to cardiovascular disease, I know that heart attacks present themselves differently in women than men. Because this isn't well known (and individuals may be subconsciously prejudiced towards women), there have been countless incidence of women who have gone to the ER because of a heart attack and have been dismissed by doctors without proper examination or treatment. I really like the…
As a biomedical engineering major, this project stood out to me because I have previously heard about the discrimination of women in medical research, and was surprised to see such a blatant case inside a field I was directly interested in pursuing. I did learn that the exclusion of women from biomedical research in heart disease was not intentional and was more a byproduct of data being more readily available from male test subjects, but do agree that more needs to be done to accommodate women dealing with the disease. Are you aware of any other types of research that excludes certain groups of people?
This topic is something that I had little to no knowledge of before reading your poster. Not only did this poster stand out because I wanted to see the injustices within the medical research community, but also because it was something that provided new information to me. I learned that in the past, men and women were not equally represented in public health and biomedical research. However, from your findings I learned that this was not intentional and just because data from males is more available. During your research did you find any other disease studies, in addition to cardiovascular disease, that demonstrated there was an unequal representation of data from men and women?
Right off the bat from reading this poster, I decided to read it because it is a topic that I had been unaware of. Of course, I knew males "dominated" in STEM fields, but I did not necessarily know this was the case in the medical field. I learned that it is not intentional that they leave women, it just so happens that more male test subjects are available. I also learned that contraception is required in biomedical research, but not in public health research. When you first began your research did you think it was the males intent to leave females out in this research?
As someone who studied biological sciences for 4 years and is now learning about social injustices and inequality as it pertains to everyday interactions and occurrences, I find this project to be very interesting. I was aware of the male-centered approach in medical research but it's always shocking to see how greatly it negatively impacts women. When it comes to cardiovascular disease, I know that heart attacks present themselves differently in women than men. Because this isn't well known (and individuals may be subconsciously prejudiced towards women), there have been countless incidence of women who have gone to the ER because of a heart attack and have been dismissed by doctors without proper examination or treatment. I really like the…