Not only patients but doctors too consider it important to decide whether the erection problem is caused by psychological or physical factors. Why is that? In the case of a patient with a duodenal ulcer not much attention is usually given to underlying psychosocial problems. A prescription for medication to inhibit or neutralize stomach acid […]
День: 09.11.2015
Ailments of the Penis
You can always rely on a friend, so they say, and hence many healthy young men never stop to think that an erection isn’t a natural occurrence for everyone. In medical jargon we refer to erectile dysfunction — ed for short: in fact, the word ‘impotence’ is no longer used. Typical erection problems occur when […]
AFTERWORD
Some comment upon the entirely male perspective of this essay is necessary. In part this derives from one of the major research tools of the author, empathic introspection. Another, more compelling reason for this narrowing of perspectives is the feminist commitment of the author. Understandably, the major focus of feminist criticism has been the representation […]
METHODOLOGICAL AND CONCEPTUAL PROBLEMS Methodological Problems
A host of methodological flaws form the backdrop of the published medical literature on menopause. Common flaws include: (a) vague or nonexistent operational definitions; (b) lack of baseline data; (c) problems in establishing dose-response relationships; (d) lack of control groups; (e) overgeneralization; (f) retrospective reporting; (g) use of biased symptom checklists; (h) lack of context; […]
Biographical Information on Committee Members
Claude R. Canizares (Co-Chair) is the Vice President for Research and Associate Provost and the Bruno Rossi Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He has overall responsibility for research activity and policy at MIT, overseeing more than a dozen interdisciplinary research laboratories and centers including the MIT Lincoln Laboratory, the Broad […]
Modern testicular transplantation
As mentioned in a previous chapter, at the beginning of the twentieth century testicular transplants were widely used with the aim of combating the ageing process. At the time there was absolutely no knowledge of the factors determining the ageing process and loss of potency. Attention turned to the testicles: testicular tissue, either human or […]
MEDICAL LITERATURE ON MENOPAUSE AND. MID-LIFE WOMEN
In this section we present the publication patterns and topical focus of the medical and psychological literature on menopause and identify some pervasive methodological and conceptual problems. More extended discussion of particular details of this analysis is presented in Rostosky and Travis (1996). What the following figures reveal is that compared with the vast array […]
Expanding the Scope
9. How important are differences among fields? Future studies should examine additional engineering and scientific fields because as the data in this report demonstrates fields differ a lot from each other. Certain engineering fields, including chemical engineering and bioengineering, may look very different from the two engineering fields—civil and electrical—examined here. 10. What are the […]
“I Had No Idea He Even Liked Porn”
Lucy, a graduate student in women’s studies, found it unbelievable when she discovered that her live-in boyfriend, Tony, would even be attracted to looking at porn. For the three years of their relationship she had been under the impression that like her, Tony found porn exploitive of women and didn’t want anything to do with […]
Media responses
In Taiwan there was increased newspaper coverage of HIV/AIDS from the mid-1980s to the late 1990s. From 1984 to 1990 the articles generally argued that MSM should stop same-sex sexual behaviour based on their prejudice against and fear of homosexuality. The articles after 1990 shifted to the argument that heterosexual men should stop having sex […]