Chinmay Soman

Nashville, TN

I recently graduated from Vanderbilt University, with a PhD in Interdisciplinary Materials Science and research in Nanomedicine.

I am highly interested in promoting sustainable agriculture in developing countries for responding to the challenges of population growth, natural resource degradation, climate unpredictability and energy shortages.

http://sustainable-farming.blogspot.com

Chinmay commented on the article | almost 3 years ago

More Than Breasts and Babies

I agree that some issues you mentioned (osteoporosis, heart) should have more research/advocacy effort to explore and correct gender based disparities. And of course, domestic violence, poverty, and political representation deserve more action.

But I'm not sure that the "women's health" focus on reproductive organs and mother-and-child health is misplaced as far as medical research is concerned. Shouldn't all diseases that don't show gender based differences be addressed as "human health" issues?

Finally, I wonder what may have caused this phenomenon. "Growing up" will be easier if we knew what the cause of the current fixation is, and who exactly is fixated.

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