WOMENSTD 220- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 37 pages long!)
16 Feb 2018
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Fit trial: national institutes on aging: baltimore longitudinal study of aging 54 - 75 which excluded women despite of individuals over 65 being female, first study to investigate estrogen use for heart disease was on men. Perspectives on health: biomedical, genetic, evolutionary, disease based, socially constructed, individual and societal, ecology and environment, political. Lecture #2: menstrual cycle: menstrual cycle, the focus is on the population of females with reproductive organs. Perhaps the more amazing aspect of it is the sheer magnitude. The normal male may manufacture several million sperm per day: menstruation, endometrial lining is deprived of hormonal support resulting in profound constriction of the uterine blood vessels. Disintegration starts and the entire of the lining of the uterine cavity slough. The uterine arteries dilate and begin to hemorrhage through the weakened capillary walls. All infections that start with h are treatable but not curable. Lecture #3: our sexual selves: biology and the social construction of women"s sexuality.
