Gender-sensitive medicine, also known colloquially as gender medicine, has received increasing public attention and widespread media coverage in recent years. As a result, it seems that gender-sensitive approaches are now established in medicine. However, if you take a closer look at institutions and research facilities, you can see that gender-sensitive medicine has hardly been anchored in science, teaching and practice: the number of Chairs for gender-sensitive medicine in Germany can be counted on one hand and various studies have found that the teaching of gender-sensitive content in medical studies is inadequate to almost non-existent.

The origins of gender-sensitive medicine also lie in the international women's health movement since the 1970s, which primarily questioned the androcentric standard in medicine. Urban exchange spaces were established in so-called women's health centers and educational campaigns were launched with the aim of breaking up and changing hierarchical doctor-patient relationships. The online lecture by J.-Prof. Dr. Barbara Wittmann, cultural anthropologist from Bamberg, draws on oral history interviews and archive research on the development of gender medical perspectives in German-speaking countries and describes the current status based on these historical origins. We will not only learn about exemplary approaches to the (historical) entanglements of health and gender, but also gain insights into the historical and cultural studies research field through selected sources, methodological approaches, as well as its potentials and challenges.

The event will take place on April 20 from 18:15-19:45 via zoom. Dial-in details are available at: .