Medical Devices, Invisible Women, Harmful Consequences

Susan P. Phillips (), Katrina Gee and Laura Wells
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Susan P. Phillips: Departments of Family Medicine and Public Health Sciences, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON K7L 5E9, Canada
Katrina Gee: Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON K7L 5E9, Canada
Laura Wells: Department of Chemical Engineering, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON K7L 5E9, Canada

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 21, 1-6

Abstract: In this commentary, we explore the disproportionate risk women experience with the insertion of various medical devices. Although pre-market device testing and complication tracking could be improved for all, a failure to consider sex differences in hormones, anatomy, inflammatory responses, and physical function puts women at particular risk. This invisibility of women is an example of gender bias in medical science and practice, a bias that could be corrected in the ways we suggest.

Keywords: sex differences; gender; medical devices; surgical mesh; hip prosthesis; women’s health (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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