Perspectives on Evidence-Based Healthcare for Women

Owen WF , Szczech LA , Frankenfield DL . Healthcare system interventions for inequality in quality: Corrective action through evidence-based medicine. J Natl Med Assoc, 2002; 94,Suppl 8:83S–91S.

Rogers W . Does evidence-based medicine offer fair benefits for all? Virtual Mentor, 2004; 6:12. virtualmentor.ama-assn.org/2004/12/oped1-0412.html

Dickenson DL . Can medical criteria settle priority-setting debates? The need for ethical analysis. Health Care Anal, 1999; 7:131–137.

Sackett DL , Straus SE , Richardson WS et al. Evidence-based medicine: How to practice and teach EBM, 2nd. London: Churchill Livingstone, 2000.

Haynes RB . What kind of evidence is it that evidence-based medicine advocates want health care providers and consumers to pay attention to? BMC Health Serv Res, 2002; 2:3. www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6963/2/3

Denny K . Evidence-based medicine and medical authority. J Med Humanities, 1999; 20:247–263.

Holmes DL , Murray SJ , Peron A , Rail G . Deconstructing the evidence-based medicine discourse in health sciences: Truth, power and fascism. Int J Evid Based Healthcare, 2006; 4:180–186.

Goldenberg MJ . Evidence-based ethics? On evidence-based practice and the “empirical turn” from normative bioethics. BMC Med Ethics, 2005; 6:11. www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6939/6/11

Bierman AS . Project for an Ontario women's health evidence-based report: Volume 1. Toronto, 2009; 1. www.powerstudy.ca

Rogers W . Evidence-based medicine and women: Do the principles and practice of EBM further women's health? Bioethics, 2004; 18:50–71.

Oakley A . Experiments in knowing: Gender and method in social science. Oxford: Polity Press, 2000.

Doyal L . What makes women sick: Gender and the political economy of health. Basingstoke: Macmillan Press, 1995.

Goldenberg MJ . Health. Smith B . Oxford encyclopedia of women in world history. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008; 440–442.

Sackett DL , Rosenberg WMC , Muir Gray JA , Haynes RB , Richardson WS . Evidence based medicine: What it is and what it isn't. BMJ, 1996; 312:71–72.

Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group. Evidence-based medicine: A new approach to teaching the practice of medicine. JAMA, 1992; 268:2420–2425.

Anderson ES . Knowledge, human interests, and objectivity in feminist epistemology. Philosoph Topics, 1995; 23:27–58.

Feyerabend PK . Against method, 3rd. London: Verso, 1993.

Giere RN . Science without laws. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.

Proctor R . Value-free science? Purity and power in modern knowledge. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1991.

Davidoff F , Haynes B , Sackett D , Smith R . Evidence based medicine. BMJ, 1995; 310:1085–1086.

Sackett DL , Haynes RB , Tugwell P . Clinical epidemiology: A basic science for clinical medicine. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1991.

Polychronis A , Miles A , Bentley P . The protagonists of “evidence-based medicine”: Arrogant, seductive, and controversial. J Eval Clin Pract, 1996; 2:9–12.

Tanenbaum SJ . Knowing and acting in medical practice: The epistemological politics of outcomes research. J Health Pol Policy Law, 1994; 19:27–44.

Goldenberg MJ . Iconoclast or creed? Objectivism, pragmatism, and the hierarchy of medicine. Perspect Biol Med, 2009; 52:168–187.

Wennberg JE . AHCP and the strategy for health care reform. Health Affairs, 1992; 11:67–71.

Fletcher RW . Clinical epidemiology: The essentials, 4th. Baltimore: Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2005.

Writing Group for the Women's Health Initiative Investigators. Risks and benefits of estrogen plus progestin in healthy postmenopausal women: Principal results from the Women's Health Initiative randomized controlled trial. JAMA, 2002; 288:321–333.

Baxter N . with the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care. Preventive health care, 2001 update: Should women be routinely taught breast self-examination to screen for breast cancer? Can Med Assoc J, 2001; 164:1837–1846.

Holcroft A . Gender bias in research: How does it affect evidence based medicine? J R Soc Med, 2007; 100:2–3.

Rogers WA . Evidence-based medicine and justice: A framework for looking at the impact of EBM upon vulnerable or disadvanged groups. J Med Ethics, 2004; 30:141–145.

Harris DJ , Douglas PS . Enrollment of women in cardiovascular clinical trials funded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. N Engl J Med, 2000; 343:475–480.

Rogers WA , Ballentyne AJ . Exclusion of women from clinical research: Myth or reality? Mayo Clin Proc, 2008; 83:536–542.

Haynes RB . Of studies, syntheses, synopses, and systems: The “4S” evolution of services for finding current best evidence. Evidence-Based Med, 2001; 6:36–38.

Haynes RB . Of studies, syntheses, synopses, summaries, and systems: the “5S” evolution of information services for evidence-based healthcare decisions. Evidence-Based Med, 2006; 11:162–164.

Loewy E . Ethics and evidence-based medicine: Is there a conflict? Med Gen Med, 2007; 9:30. www.medscape.com/viewarticle/559977

Code L . What can she know? Taking subjectivity into account. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991.

Longino H . Science as social knowledge: Values and objectivity in scientific inquiry. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990.

Grasswick H . Feminist epistemology and philosophy of science: Power in knowledge. New York: Springer Books, 2010.

DeVries R , Lemmens T . The social and cultural shaping of medical evidence: Case studies from pharmaceutical research and obstetric science. Soc Sci Med, 2006; 62:2694–2706.

Lexchin J , Bero LA , Djulbegovic B , Clark O . Pharmaceutical industry sponsorship and research outcome and quality: Systematic review. BMJ, 2003; 326:1167–1170.