The article attempts to reveal gender-based determining factors in medical care. For this purpose, a study was made on fibromyalgia, an extremely unknown disease, which mainly affects women, which is why this could be a paradigmatic case of the gender construction and androcentric biases in medical science. The results show that in differential socialization patterns, in the models of masculinity and femininity and in the division of sex roles, answers can be found to some of the differences and inequalities that arise in healthcare.... [Leer más...]