Jill A. Fisher
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Gender and the Science of Difference
Cultural Politics of Contemporary Science and Medicine
Edited by Jill A. Fisher
Rutgers University Press
How does contemporary science contribute to our understanding about what it means to be women or men? What are the social implications of scientific claims about differences between "male" and "female" brains, hormones, and genes? How does culture influence scientific and medical research and its findings about human sexuality, especially so-called normal and deviant desires and behaviors? Gender and the Science of Difference examines how contemporary science shapes and is shaped by gender ideals and images.
- Copyright year: 2011
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The Political Economy of Pharmaceutical Clinical Trials
Rutgers University Press
Today, more than 75 percent of pharmaceutical drug trials in the United States are being conducted in the private sector. Once the sole province of academic researchers, these important studies are now being outsourced to non-academic physicians. According to Jill A. Fisher, this major change in the way medical research is performed is the outcome of two problems in U.S. health care: decreasing revenue for physicians and decreasing access to treatment for patients.
- Copyright year: 2008
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