Socio-Medical Gender Studies

Socio-Medicine is an interdisciplinary project, focusing on the question of how and to what extend are medical scientific research and medical/clinical practice linked to social and cultural factors? The central socio-medical assumption is that the geneses of illnesses as well as medical interventions are socially negotiated.
Socio-Medicine builds a bridge between medicine as a system of knowledge – primarily based on bioscience – and the scientific and cognitive theory of the social sciences. Medical Sociology and Social Medicine already have used socio-scientific approaches to medicine. Socio-Medical Gender Studies subjects their results to the categories of sex and gender. It inspires new bioscientific questions and generates knowledge that is sensitive to matters of gender/sex, and it includes the theory and methodology of Women’s, Men’s and Gender Studies. Thus, sex and gender become an integral aspect of all health related matters.
Socio-Medical Gender Studies is a combination of sociological and medical research, not research about medicine. Its perspective is concerned with the connection between social structures and medical practice, not merely with the structures within the discipline.

 

Current Project

• Research on Tumor Prevention
  Executive Committee:
  PD Dr. Andrea Kindler-Röhrborn, Cytology

Completed Projects

• Women and Men after Kindey Transplantation: A Clinical Study
  Executive Committee:
  Prof. Dr. Doris Janshen, Sociology
  Prof. Dr. Thomas Philipp, Nephrology
  Prof. Dr. Petra Thürmann, Pharmacology
• Neuronal and Social Processing of Syncognition and Synesthetics in Men and Women
  Executive Committee:
  Prof. Dr. Doris Janshen, Sociology
  Prof. Dr. Dieter Bingmann, Neurophysiology
  PD Dr. Peter Weiss-Blankenhorn, Neuroradiology
• Genderspezific Aspects Cardiac Insufficiency
  Executive Committee:
  Prof. Dr. Doris Janshen, Sociology
  Prof. Dr. Petra Thürmann, Pharmacology
  Dr. med. Thomas Scheffold, Cardiology