Year: 2012
Type: dissertation
Abstract: In the early sixties, a prominent professor in Clinical Pharmacology at the University \nCollege in London, D.R. Laurence, stated: “There are no clinically important \nsex differences in drug action, except, of course, to sex steroid hormones, \nbut the subject is poorly documented. Women are said to be more liable to \nbecome excited by morphine than are men; in this respect they resemble cats.” \nIt was thought that study results in men could easily be extrapolated to women, \nand women were excluded from clinical studies for simplicity and protection \nfrom harmful
Author: Eline M. Rodenburg
Language: English
Topic: Sex and Gender in Healthcare
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W107603594