Opinion: Focus on preclinical sex differences will not address women's and men's health disparities.

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  • Sarah S Richardson
  • Meredith Reiches
  • Heather Shattuck-Heidorn
  • Michelle Lynne LaBonte
  • Theresa Consoli
چکیده

Sarah S. Richardson, Meredith Reiches, Heather Shattuck-Heidorn, Michelle Lynne LaBonte, and Theresa Consoli Department of the History of Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Department of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA; Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; and School for Global Inclusion and Social Development, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

دوره 112 44  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2015