“Anatomy is one of the key sites for the production and maintenance of sex and gender as embodied dualities, as these excerpts imply. It offers an institutionalized discourse rife with vivid representations which claim the body for medicine and then… Read More ›
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Stunning News
Guest posted by Kate Harding Item: School childhood obesity programs are failing, experts say Any person looking at the published literature about these programs would have to conclude that they are generally not working, said Tom Baranowski, a pediatrics professor… Read More ›
Rearranging accessibility: more on invisible disability accommodations
I wrote a post a while ago titled Stop and think: invisible access for invisible disabilities. It was a personal narrative of some of my experience with chronic fatigue syndrome. In it I mentioned a couple of accessibility problems that… Read More ›
Fat a Greater Threat than Drug Abuse, Smoking, or Alcohol
Guest post by Kate Harding (and cross-posted a couple places) So say 40.4% of people 18-24, according to The Brogan Survey. Asked to rank obesity, smoking, drugs and alcohol in order of perceived “greatest threat to public health,” most people… Read More ›
Sex ed – the facts
Further to Lauredhel’s post about a UK judge’s strange views on the sexual precocity of a 10 year old girl, which became a discussion on young people and sexuality (and the negatives of viewing adolescent sexual experimentation through a lens… Read More ›
Sexual assault medicine in crisis in regional NSW
Fancy driving a round trip of 700km for a forensic medical examination after being raped? That’s what rape victims in central NSW are facing due to NSW Health’s refusal to pay the standard call-out rate for medical practitioners who are… Read More ›
Depression and anxiety
Magic Bellybutton has written a terrific post about her experiences dealing with depression and anxiety. A lot of her experiences mirror mine, which is something I haven’t written about on the blog although I’ve thought a lot about doing so,… Read More ›
Salon’s “Milk Money”: media scrutiny of the IBMP-Prolacta partnership
I had posted this as an update to this post, but I thought it deserved a post of its own. Salon has taken up the story of the murky (until last week) relationship between the Oprah-advertised International Breastmilk Project and… Read More ›
Harradine’s poverty legacy continues
Sue Dunlevy writes an excellent column today on the legacy of Senator Brian Harradine, who held the balance of power in the Australian Senate for long enough to drag our foreign aid policy into a position whereby, Dunlevy argues, we… Read More ›
Engage obstreperal lobes
Lauredhel has updated her post from last month about the lack of transparency surrounding ProLacta’s International Breastmilk Project with the latest news. As thought, they couldn’t lie straight in bed. Feed the wo-orld”¦ one baby, anyhow. UPDATE (8 June 2007)… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 