Brief Debate In Physician's Weekly: Is Medical Research Shortchanging Men?

	posted by Scott on Monday May 20, @06:04PM from the men's-health dept.
	Marc Angelucci writes "Jean Bonhomme of the Black Men's Health Network briefly debates Phyllis Greenberger of the Society for Women’s Health Research in this point/counterpoint in the Physician's Weekly. It's pretty clear to me who won. Bonhomme gives far more accurate facts, Greenberger repeats the already-debunked myth that women were exluded from medical testing, and Greenberger changes the issue to be whether the female-specific research indirectly benefits men rather than whether the research overall is shortganging men by underaddressing men's health in favor of women's health."

	Source: Physician's Weekly [magazine] Title: Is Medical Research Shortchanging Men? Author: Jean Bonhomme and Phyllis Greenberger Date: May 6, 2002

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Women's Health Advocate on the Defensive (Score:1) by A.J. on Tuesday May 21, @06:04PM EST (#1) (User #134 Info) I must say that after reading this exchange a couple times I have to agree that the argument by Greenberger (Women’s Health Advocate) is really weak. As Marc mentions in his intro she resorts to dragging out the stale, dusty, and phony claim about the exclusion of women from medical research. Then she does the old switcheroo and tries to make a case for why overemphasis on women’s health is really good for men. It seems that if she really believed her argument she’d be longing for the good old days when women were (allegedly) underemphasized – overemphasis on men’s health would be great for women. IMO her only legit claim is that studying both sexes is necessary, as if that’s in dispute. She somehow tries to turn that into a case for overemphasis on women. I don’t buy it. On the other hand Bonhomme (Men’s Health Advocate) simply provides facts that speak for themselves. I have to admit I enjoy seeing a women's health advocate so obviously on the defensive - and doing such a poor job of it too.

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