Chapter 8 218 acknowledging similarities and differences between men and women in specific disease populations, and aims to actively challenge and transform gender norms and stereotypes that can lead to inequitable treatment and health outcomes of people, with and without, PD. Lastly, I contextualize a remarks of West and Zimmerman (1987) that is it important for gender-sensitive researchers and practitioners in the field of (bio)medicine to recognize that the analytical distinction between institutional and interpersonal spheres does not pose an either/or choice when it comes to the question of effective gendersensitive or even gender-transformative interventions in medicine.25 Reconceptualizing gender in medicine is not simply a responsibility of individuals, whether researchers, patients, healthcare professionals or policy makers, but as an integral part of a dynamic sociocultural order it implies new perspectives on the entire network of gender relations in healthcare and medicine; how people act and interact on the basis of sex categories, how this is produced and reproduced in social situations related to health and medicine and which social control mechanisms or institutional policies sustain it.
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