title: [Gender, medicine and health: some landmarks].
abstract: Well established in the English-speaking area, gender perspective in medicine doesn't seem to be yet very familiar to Swiss doctors. First, the main initiatives taken in Switzerland in order to develop this field are mentioned. Next, explanations are given about the origin of the distinction made since the seventies in the social sciences between gender--related to the social--and sex--related to the biological--when one refers to men's and women's situations; a distinction officially introduced in medicine two decades later. After an evocation of the main historical steps leading to the constitution of Gender Health-Gender Medicine field, this article concludes with a picture of this approach, which relevance is nowadays underlined by the WHO as well as by other official instances.
authors.affiliation: Institut universitaire d'histoire de la médecine et de la santé publique Falaises I, 1005 Lausanne. Catherine.Fussinger@chuv.ch
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Fussinger
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D054526:Men's Health; D016387:Women's Health