SOC 608 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Anti-Abortion Movements, Double Standard, Fetus

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 608
• Professor: Kelly Train

Document Summary

Gender as a category of analysis how health disparities occur among women and men in diverse social groups (ie. class and location) All medical research is done on men. The male body and men"s experience is viewed as the universal experience. The only cases that women are used are for things specific to female health, like reproduction. Health manifests itself very different in men and women. When bush came to power in 2001, all stem cell research was cancelled, because he"s pro life. Uft decided to construct a building and offer jobs to the top stem cell researchers in. Stem cell research always used male fetus stem cells, until they made a mistake and realized something. Male stem cells die out very quickly, but female stem cells often maintained themselves for a long time. There was no such thing as modern medicine until the 1800s.