WANTED: Single, White Male for Medical Research.” When USbioethicist Rebecca Dresser wrote these words in 1992, she was not recruiting for a clinical trial. But she might well have been. Her landmark article1 drew attention to the deplorable reality that women were being excluded from clinical research across the medical spectrum, from cardiovascular disease to HIV.The article had a profound effect on Australian academic Wendy Rogers, now associate professor of medical ethics and health law at FlindersUniversity in AdelaideI was horrified that women might not be included in research,” Professor Rogers says. She had long been interested in feminist bioethics, but her desire to investigate the gender divide in medical research was being stymied by a lack of information.So Professor...
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