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Gender and Science   Reference library

Londa Schiebinger

The Oxford Encyclopedia of the History of American Science, Medicine, and Technology

...argued that what is meant by sex should encompass a full continuum of human sexuality. More recently, Anne Fausto-Sterling published her “Bare Bones of Sex” ( 2005 ) and “Bare Bones of Race” ( 2008 ) to emphasize how biology is not purely physical but interacts with environment and culture to “shape the very bones that support us.” Her point is that a complex disease, such as osteoporosis, emerges over the life course in response to how biology and culture interact in “specific lived lives.” Fausto-Sterling sought to do away with dualisms—of...

Literature and Science   Reference library

Priscilla Wald

The Oxford Encyclopedia of the History of American Science, Medicine, and Technology

...which marks an endpoint at the end of the sentence. The proliferation of meanings is not anarchic. A still life is still (yet) life. The life is in the artistry: the composition that leads to more active contemplation. This introductory “button” shows readers how to read associatively, attending to their own roles as viewers in creating the work of art and in generating the response. It places responsibility for creating art, making meaning, and seeing life differently onto the spectator—responsibility for seeing themselves in the act of seeing, which includes...

schistosomiasis   Reference library

The Oxford Companion to Medicine (3 ed.)

...and elsewhere in Africa where livelihoods depend on irrigation of crops by people whose bare skin is exposed to contaminated water, almost everyone has schistosomiasis, also called bilharziasis in honor of Theodor Bilharz, who identified the parasite. The eggs of bladder flukes are excreted in the urine, and those of the intestinal variety are excreted in the feces. The eggs develop into free-swimming larvae, which invade and pass the first developmental stage of their life cycle in freshwater snails. The larvae reproduce asexually in the snails to give rise to...

dreams   Reference library

The Oxford Companion to Medicine (3 ed.)

...and forecast the future. Medical thinking during the same period by such men as Maury in France, Stekel in Germany, Freud in Austria, and Jung in Switzerland, moved on into the next century and saw dreaming as a time in which the individual's true personality was laid bare, his conscience quelled, and his individual passions and fears revealed to the discerning interpreter. The 1960s saw an increase in research into dreaming, as a mental process arising from a biological substratum. In Chicago, Dr Nathaniel Kleitman led younger research workers to...