Aligned Across Difference: Structural Injustice, Sex Work, and Human Trafficking

Trafficking, sex work, and HIV: efforts to resolve conflicts.

94 www.thelancet.com Vol 385 January 10, 2015 and Evaluation responded to criticisms and improved its practices. The new GBD 2013 estimates show the vast expansion of collaborators, acquiring primary information even from countries that traditionally provide little data, such as China, Mexico, Turkey, and Russia. The description of methods is more detailed and transparent, and the instruments o...

Sex trafficking, sex work, and violence: evidence for a new era.

Sex difference in human mevalonate metabolism.

Two pathways of mevalonate metabolism have been demonstrated: the major (sterol) pathway leads to cholesterol synthesis, whereas the second shunts mevalonate away from sterol production and ultimately results in its oxidation to CO2. Previous studies have demonstrated that the female rat metabolizes circulating mevalonate by the shunt pathway at twice the rate of the male, whereas the male rat ...

Fundamental sex difference in human brain architecture.

In PNAS, a report by Ingalhalikar et al. (1) has the makings of a landmark paper. Here I would like to briefly suggest why. Biomedical research in general, and neuroscience in particular, has been built on a false assumption. I refer to the assumption that one may safely ignore potential sex influences, for essentially every domain outside sexual functions and sex-specific issues like prostate ...

Selling Bodies and Souls: Human Sex Trafficking in China