Tuesday, September 21, 2010
what I've learned about my research
first of all I've learned that my topic was too broad. In talking with professors about medical research and gender bias, they suggested that I concentrate in one disease and not try to generalize the problem. I decided to concentrate on heart disease and what took us so long to figure out that women have different symptoms. I've also learned that many biases come from government allowing researchers to exclude women from clinical research due to possible pregnancy, complications and time restrictions due to family responsibility and other issues as well.
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I had the same problem with trying to narrow down my topic. I am also interested to hear about what you find.
ReplyDeleteTo be more specific, I am interested what the different symptoms are and how they differ between males and females.
ReplyDeleteI think that it is a god idea for you to narrow your topic down. I feel that you will still be able to find a good number of resources to get information from for your research. This is one topic that I have never really thought about. I didn't realize that clinical testing was primarily a male dominated thing until you brought it up the day that we went to the library. It seems that you are ahead of the curb when it comes to doing the actual research, which is a very smart thing to do.
ReplyDeleteYeah this is kind of new information coming out very quickly and chaotically out of medical research, I'm trying to make sense of it.
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