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Sex

Female and Male

XX, XY

Gender

Determined by social favors, but influence by sex and other bio factors. Gender may or may not align with sex.

Plato

Believed humans were originally males that failed at life and then as a result were born female in the next life.

Male>Female, Greek Philosopher

Aristotle

Believed females were a defective version of males.

Plato's Student; Males are A(+), Females are A(-)

Hippocrates

Believed the uterus dried out and must be moisturized with semen.

Greek Physician; Intercourse and pregnancy as a subscription for women with illnesses and afflictions.

The Renaissance Period

*Organs of women were believed to make women weak and prone to illnesses


*Socially unacceptable behaviors were treated medically, perhaps deriving from sexual frustration.


*The uterus was the source of hysteria (hysterectomy)


*Women were counseled to get married and have children, etc.

Between 1300-1700, DaVinci and Vesalius

Rachel Maines

She suggested vibrating mechanisms were prescribed to relieve hysteria and eventually became available for home use!

The Technology of Orgasm (Vibrators)

Elizabeth Blackwell

The first female medical doctor in the U. S. January of 1849, as a female physician she faced discrimination.

The Society for the Advancement of Women's Health Research

Established to help women considering conditions, or affecting women differently than men.

1990

The Journal of Women's Health

The establishment of which journal?

1992

Hormonal Replacement Therapy

Established to positively effect women's health along with


Vitamins


Exercise and


Low fat diets

HRT; 👎menopause syptoms<breast cancer👍

A Law of Nature

An observation phenomenon of which you know exists but not exactly why.

Ignaz Semmelweis

Credited for linking microbes an infection, publicizing the need for sanitary conditions.


*Deceased death rates concerning mothers and newborns but was not accepted by the medical community until years later.

The hand washing doctor, 1818-1865