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Sex differences in pain: And now for something completely different

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 1997

Ron Kupers
Ron Kupers
Affiliation:
Karolinska Institute, Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences and Technology, Division of Clinical Neurophysiology, S 141 86 Huddinge, [email protected]
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Abstract

The belief that women report more somatic complaints than men is not new. Many centuries b.c., the Egyptians and the Greeks already made an association between female pains and hysteria, which is Greek for “wandering womb.” Despite the commonly held belief that women are more sensitive to pain than men, the issue of sex differences in pain has received little attention from the scientific community in general. It is the merit of berkley to draw our attention to this large gap in our scientific knowledge.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 20 , Issue 3 , September 1997 , pp. 455 - 456
Copyright
© 1997 Cambridge University Press

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