19/01/2022
**We do not support the use of animal testing on this page, the quote is to highlight medical sexism**
"The chapter on medication in particular made my jaw plummet. Women metabolise drugs differently 40 per cent of the time, McGregor writes. Yet 80 per cent of animals used in trials of potential new drugs are young males, and women’s participation in the first crucial phase of clinical trials is even now only 30 per cent. This leads to a situation where, for instance, it took nearly 20 years and thousands of complaints before the medical authorities realised that women only needed half the original recommended dose of the sleep aid Ambien."
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/modern-medicine-books-sexism-women-hysterical-endometriosis-symptoms-a9512551.html
When it comes to medicine, women are still seen as both irrational and doomed to suffer. Our book columnist Ceri Radford investigates why, and what needs to change
