Health care for women international
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Health Care Women Int · Feb 2010
Review"The Western gaze"--an analysis of medical research publications concerning the expressions of depression, focusing on ethnicity and gender.
Our aim of this study was to explore how authors of medical articles wrote about different symptoms and expressions of depression in men and women from various ethnic groups as well as to analyze the meaning of gender and ethnicity for expressions of depression. A database search was carried out using PubMed. ⋯ Articles often present issues based on a Western point of view. This may lead to "cultural or gender gaps," which we refer to as "the Western gaze," which may in turn influence the diagnosis of depression.