She may be right, but her case is not wholly convincing, partly because Schallmayer is the only figure discussed in detail and partly because the evidence respecting other figures is in fact ambiguous. Weiss asserts that Schallmayer's views were representative of Wilhelmine eugenicists. However, from the evidence of her book, one could conclude that the movement was actually characterized by a ...

Copyright © 2010 Massachusetts Medical Society. A 16-year-old girl presents for evaluation of secondary amenorrhea. Her menarche was at the age of 12 years. Since she started running for exercise and sport at the age of 14 years, her menstrual periods have become lighter and less frequent. Her last menstrual period was 6 months ago. She has lost 2.3 kg (5 lb) over the past 3 months and reports ...

Using fillers for aesthetic corrections purposes are becoming more and more popular amongst patients due to its less invasive nature compared to surgery. A 46-year old female patient said after her first baby born, she lost the perkiness and fullness of the breasts. Then she injected her breasts with baby oil found at home with a syringe with about 200 cc for each breast and she was quite conte...

This manuscript pairs Margaret Atwood’s poem ‘Marsh Languages’ with Luce Irigaray’s recent philosophical text In the Beginning She Was. By doing so, an important conceptual resonance emerges between two texts on status of loss a maternal language and more broadly founding Mother at origins Western thought. Advancing feminist poetics ethics maternal, its roots in nature, Atwood works are odds en...

During the period of Regency England, a woman’s life was planned for her before she was born, and her place in society was defined by her marital status. Before she was married, she was her father’s daughter with a slim possibility of inheriting property. After she was married, legally she did not exist; she was subsumed into her husband with absolutely no legal, political, or financial rights....