The topic of heart attacks in connection with gender made Sarah want to become a science communicator. Find out why gender saves lives in the slam.
Sarah Hiltner is 40 years old. She is a German sociologist, author and science communicator, sports scientist and physiotherapist. Since 2013, she has been researching the connections between gender and health and sensitising people to the fact that gender is not gaga, but life-saving.
Sarah studied at the Humboldt University of Berlin (Bachelor) and at the University of Potsdam (Master).
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For a long time, it was thought that men in particular suffer from heart attacks, but what if women show different symptoms? In her slam, Sarah Hiltner shows how this misconception came about and why things are only slowly changing.
In her bachelor's thesis, Sarah researched the topic of heart attacks in medical textbooks. The description of the symptoms of a heart attack was a central topic. Sarah asked herself how the symptoms were described and whether the literature referred to male or female patients.
The following result led her to focus intensively on the topic of science communication: According to Sarah, heart attacks in women are labelled as special, particular or atypical in the literature or do not appear in the literature at all. In her slam, she explains why this result made her angry.
The book "Weltrettung braucht Wissenschaft aus dem Rowohlt polaris Verlag", of which Sarah is a co-author, has also been available for a year. In her article, she deals with the topic: The bitter pill: How sexism in medicine kills.
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