Seeing for themselves.

Sisters doing it for themselves.

©FSRH J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2009: 35(2) Background We have come a long way since John Rock and his coworkers felt it necessary to build in a monthly bleed for women on the combined oral contraceptive (COC) pill.1 They were trying to offset potential objections from the Catholic church, and were aware of the fact that women were psychologically reliant on monthly bleeds for reassurance ...

Seeing Seeing

This paper discusses several key issues concerning consciousness and human vision. A brief overview is presented of recent developments in this area, including issues that have been resolved and issues that remain unsettled. Based on this, three Hilbert questions are proposed. These involve three related sets of issues: the kinds of visual experience that exist, the kinds of visual attention th...

Seeing and not seeing.

Recent studies revealed that although subterranean mammals inhabit a dark underground environment, they can still perceive light stimuli and use this to entrain their circadian activity rhythm. Regarding spatial orientation, olfactory and tactile cues are employed for short-distance; whereas for long-distance, subterranean mammals employ the earth's magnetic field and self-generated (vestibular...

Lesbians over 60 speak for themselves.

With all its faults, this study, begun in 1983, is the first attempt to reach a nationwide representation of lesbian elders in order to gather information about their background, their relationship with their families of origin, and, for those married to men, with their husbands, children, and grandchildren. It explores their sexual behavior, both their physical and psychological health, and ho...

Seeing more is seeing better.