WGS 344 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Pelvic Inflammatory Disease, Fallopian Tube, Testicular Cancer
17 May 2018
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Fertility on different cultures
• Dogon people in Africa
o See women as directly connected with land and soil
▪ The’re desried as soil: oistess, fertilit
▪ Infertile - desried as dr. See as the oa’s error
• Sometimes thought happened because of incest
o Men have to acquire more women and children
• Pygmy in Africa
o The infertility was blamed upon the men (unusual)
• Taiwan
o Having children is an important aspect of life and contributing to the society and
an obligation, being infertile is bad.
▪ They adopted
• Bengal in India
o Psychology and infertility
• Kyrgyz
o Infertility related to a lack of connection with your historical roots
▪ She would have to listen to an entire long recitation and be cured of
infertility
• Ancient Rome
o Unwise to have your own children. You should wait and adopt one so you know
if the kid is good.
o Infertility is not a problem
• Ancient Greece
o Infanticide was practiced
• Modern Greece
o If ou do’t hae a hild ou’re opletel stigatized
• Bosnia
o If you were infertile you have to meditate in a tomb to become fertile again
Attitudes Toward Fertility
• Infertility rate
o 7% of men and 11% of women of reproductive age worldwide
o About 50 million couples worldwide
• Causes of Infertility
o Cancer (Ovarian, breast), age, stress
o Athlete – low BMI
o Polycystic ovary, endometriosis, pelvic inflammatory disease
o Men – smoking (lower sperm count), steroids, testicular cancer
▪ Seems like the infertility rated for men are growing
o Idiopathic infertility – e do’t hae a eplaatio for h ou’re ot ale to
conceive
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