Sex Role Stereotypes and the American Physician

摘要: The potential influence of sex-role stereotypes on women medical patients is examined in this paper. It argued that practice is, part, a social enterprise, influenced by stereotypic notions held both and physicians, particularly the interaction patients' behavior with physicians' expectations. Indirect evidence suggests physicians tend to attribute symptoms presented psychogenic rather than organic causes, but nonetheless receive more treatment men form unnecessary surgery psychotropic drugs. latter viewed as part historical trend feminist self-help movement attempting counteract.