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Why can't a woman be more like a man?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 1997

Anita M. Unruh
Anita M. Unruh
Affiliation:
School of Occupational Therapy, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, B3H 3J5 aunruh@is.dal.ca
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Abstract

berkley's line of reasoning about sex and pain experience suggests a completely different perspective on sex differences in human experimental, clinical, and epidemiological pain research. Although physiological mechanisms may place women at greater risk for pain, women may have found ways to dampen the effect of these mechanisms. Nevertheless, it is a challenge to extrapolate physiological mechanisms in human phenomena from outcomes observed in animal models.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 20 , Issue 3 , September 1997 , pp. 467 - 468
Copyright
© 1997 Cambridge University Press

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