HLTC02H3 Chapter 2: HLTC02 Chapter 2.doc

48 views3 pages

turquoisewhale519

19 Apr 2012

School

Department

Course

Professor

For unlimited access to Textbook Notes, a Class+ subscription is required.

Document Summary

Chapter 2: more than age and biology: overhauling lifespan approaches to women"s. In canada and elsewhere a number of conceptual and methodological shortcomings need to be overcome, especially the current focus on age and life stages with prioritize disease and illness within narrow confines of a biomedical perspective. Biomedical hegemony and its related priorities are shown to cause narrow and often incorrect conceptualizations of women"s health across the lifespan. The lifespan approach: implies a notion of human life that is structured predominantly by age. Health canada"s women"s health strategy: health framework that prioritizes three life stages of childhood and adolescence, early to mid-adulthood, and later life. Definite lack of longitudinal data on women"s health, which is crucial. By focusing on biological explanations, lifespan frameworks assume that the best points of intervention are individual level behavioral changes and medical treatments, overlooking the possibilities for more systematic social interventions to improve the health of the population.

Related Questions

23.

23. Gender-based violence in the workplace can lead to which ofthe following harmful impacts on sex workersâ lives?

		PTSD and Depression
		STIs
		Drug abuse
		Sexual violence
		All of the above

26.

How is the concept of the "naturalization" of gender differences used and to what ends (in academic work on gender)?

		An increasingly popular scientific approach that demonstrates that these gender differences are based in biology rather than social processes.
		A critique of the ways in which ânaturalisticâ (physiological) explanations of gender difference are supported by culture, mass media, religion, knowledge systems (e.g., science and medicine).
		An important part of the self-help movement that shows that gender differences are normal, natural, and to be expected, that conflict arises out of the mistaken assumption that such differences can and should be changed, a set of exercises meant to help individuals come to terms with their inner essence.

pearmammoth18

Please help me answer these questions. Thank you

1	_______________ is a pattern of dispersion in ecology in whichindividuals are grouped in patches and is the most common patternof dispersion.
2	In the _________ growth model the growth is unregulated becauseof abundance of resources.
3	The competition between individuals of the same species for thelimited resources is called _____________.
4	Physiological or anatomical response that is longer term, thoughstill reversible is called _________.
5	Group of individuals of the same species living in a given areaat a given time.
6	A survivorship curve with mortality more constant over the lifespan.
7	True or False: Frogs practice internal fertilization.
8	In women, estrogen is produced by the ___________________.
9	An egg that has just exited the ovary in ovulation is a____________ oocyte and is ____________.
10	True or False: The urethra is the passage for both urine andsemen in males.
11	Sperm go from primary spermatocytes to secondary spermatocytesto sperm cells in the _____________.
12	Oogenesis produces ________ gametes from one undifferentiatedcell, while spermatogenesis produces _________ gametes from oneundifferentiated cell.
13	The surge of this hormone results in ovulation in the femaleovarian cycle.
14	____________ is the embryonic layer that develops into mosttissues and organs in an individual.
15	The name for

limewater-buffalo900

True or False: The Pros and Cons of Reproductive Technology

. Â¼ of all couples who try to conceive discover they are infertile.

. Donor insemination is 30 to 40% successful.

.About 1% of all children in developed countries are conceived through in-vitro fertilization.

. In-vitro fertilization can only be used to overcome fertility problems.

. A âsex sorterâ method of in-vitro fertilization helps ensure that couples who carry X-linked diseases have a daughter.

. In-vitro fertilization is as safe as natural conception to infant survival and healthy development.

. Because surrogacy favors the wealthy as contractors of infants and the less economically advantages as surrogates, it may promote exploitation of financially needy women.

. Most recipients of in-vitro fertilization are in their fifties and sixties.

. Several European countries have successfully created designer babies â controlling offspring traits by manipulating genetic makeup/

. At present, nothing is known about the psychological consequences of being a product of reproductive technologies.

HLTC02H3 Chapter 2: HLTC02 Chapter 2.doc

Document Summary

Get access

Related Documents

HLTC02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Reference Group, Invisibility, Reproductive Health

HLTC02H3 Study Guide - National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Sex Reassignment Surgery, Single Parent

HLTC02H3 : HLTC02 Chapter Summaries all.doc

Related Questions