THE PROGRAM “GENDER STUDIES” (EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY IN ST. PETERSBURG): STUDYING HEALTH IN GENDER PERSPECTIVE

Abstract

In the work of scientific centers, social studies of medicine can take many different forms, depending on the disciplinary field, theoretical and methodological frameworks, research tasks. This text presents one of the possible approaches to studying health and disease – their analysis trough the lens of gender studies. In this text I consider the main principles of gender approach in the studies of medicine, as well as trace how this approach is applied in the scientific and educational activities of the “Gender Studies” program, European University in St. Petersburg.