Women in Osteopathy. A Synopsis of the Journals “DO” and “Osteopathic Medicine”
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- Title
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Women in Osteopathy.
A Synopsis of the Journals
“DO” and “Osteopathic Medicine” - Author(s)
- Schmid Alexandra
- Abstract
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Gender medicine and gender mainstreaming is gaining ground. As explained in Part I of the work on hand, research on this theme has multiplied during the last years. Meanwhile, questions to gender medicine are shown increasingly at the coverage of daily papers. Recently the journal “profile” dedicated a five-page article to gender-medicine (profile 26, 07), gender congresses are held, and in Austria consideration is being given to the introduction of a special study course for "gender” in medicine. But where is the gender-thought in the field of osteopathy? In casting a glance on Part II of the present work it seems that gender-mainstreaming in osteopathy is still in a state of slumber. A content analysis is the used method. The study on hand deals mainly with quantitative data collection and is based on the comparison between the frequency of presence of women versus the frequency of presence of men. The results leave no doubt. Women are significantly less referred to in the analyzed magazines, are significantly less speaking up and are significantly less quoted. Significantly less books of women as of men are introduced, and among the authors in the editorial team there are significant less women than men. Only in 5.3% of all analyzed articles female or neutral forms of address were used. Terms like gender mainstreaming or gender medicine do not exist in any of the analyzed editions. Studies which contain gender-sensible data are searched in vain. Only in 2 of 27 studies of the analyzed papers is it mentioned how many women respectively men were among the test persons, and also in these two cases no separate data evaluation was done. The existence of differences in the osteopathic treatment of women and men, respectively whether women and men react differently to an osteopathic treatment, is obviously not a research subject.
With the aid of the study on hand, it is stated to be of absolute interest to permit the gender-thought to slip into osteopathy increasingly – for the benefit of the female osteopaths, and last but not least also for the benefit of the female patient. - presented at
- Wiener Schule für Osteopathie
- Date Accepted
- 2007
- Date Submitted
- 1.12.2005 00:00:00
- Type
- osteo_thesis
- Language
- English
- Submitted by:
- 62
- Pub-Identifier
- 13468
- Inst-Identifier
- 781
- Keywords
- Gender Medicine,German Osteopathic Journals,Female Osteopaths
- Recommended
- 0
- Medium
- SchmidAlexandra_Englisch.pdf
- Item sets
- Thesis
Schmid Alexandra, “Women in Osteopathy. A Synopsis of the Journals “DO” and “Osteopathic Medicine””, Osteopathic Research Web, accessed May 10, 2024, https://www.osteopathicresearch.org/s/orw/item/3000