Hysterectomy

Judith Thomson argues that even if a fetus is a person, abortion is not murder or wrongful killing when conception is a product of rape,when the mother’s life is endangered, or when the mother has taken reasonable precautions to avoid being pregnant. Thomson uses analogical reasoning to show that in these situations, abortion is a woman’s choice and is not murder. In the case of rape, Thomson uses the sick violinist example as an analogy to this situation. Suppose if a person was kidnapped and a…

For the past several decades the disability movement has been an active part of intersectionality. The modern disability movement “draws a distinction between physical impairment and disability” (Wentzell 371). It focuses on the social and cultural framing of disability rather than the medicalization of different impairment conditions. The disability movement is the parent movement to the disability sex rights movement. The disability sex rights movement addresses the “psychosocial,…

HeLa cells were the basis of cell culture in the latter half of the 20th century. In The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot explores the scientific achievements and ethical issues relating to HeLa cells, as well as the connection HeLa cells have with the Lacks family. When Henrietta Lacks was being treated for cervical cancer, the doctors shaved parts of her tumor off and sent them to a lab, where her cancerous cells never stopped dividing. She never consented to have her cells…

and collected from 1985 to 1999. These patients had never been treated with chemotherapy prior to the surgery and were from the Netherlands. The subjects in control group were 9 individuals who had no cervical-related issues and had undergone hysterectomies. The study was approved and guidelines were followed according to the guidelines of the Dutch Federation of Medical Research Associations. Quadruple fluorescent and enzymatic immunostaining of tumor infiltrating lymphocytes and their ligands…

woman to struggle with being thought of as ambitious and intellectual. To be able to make such a statement as above first we must consider and understand where women stand in Hispanic heritage. In the article “Mexican Beliefs and Attitudes Toward Hysterectomy and…

find that you are morally required to let said pollen grow in your home due to the defective screen, as the conclusion it leads too are illogical. She argues that pregnancy caused by rape for example, could be avoid should the woman have had a hysterectomy first. This is of course an extreme solution to prevent an unlikely situation. In the “People-seeds situation the mother’s life is still not at risk, but as established previously her right to bodily autonomy is continuous and she may remove…

On what started as a normal day for a three-year-old, I had pulled out all of my Barbie dolls from the toy chest. Just as I was about to send Barbie on her next adventure, my dad ran into the house, shouting loudly, “Girls! We have to go now!” I don’t remember a lot about that day, but I do remember the pure panic on his face. My mom had fallen off of the ladder while hanging Christmas lights. She had several contusions and a completely shattered kneecap. She underwent emergency surgery to…

Aging is a state of mind, its what you make of it that determines how you feel about aging. During our younger years we never address the fact that we are all aging. For most people the idea of aging is frightening. Everyone ages at different rates and times depending on the person and experiences in their lives. Tons of research has been done on the idea of different types of aging: chronological age vs. functional age. Chronological age is the number of years a person has lived while…

The diagnosis is not only being used to control women but is also causing drastic consequences if it is ordained untreatable. Women are forced to insane asylums and are also forced to have a hysterectomy, which almost happened to charlotte in the film (Wexler, 2011). Also, because of this misdiagnosis women were lead to believe that there was something wrong with them when in fact, they were perfectly…

vascular disease, coronary bypass surgery, angioplasty, carotid endarterectomy, or stroke. Women with self-reported diabetes or treatment for diabetes were classified as having diabetes. BMI was defined as weight in kg/ height in m2. A history of a hysterectomy determined the hormone therapy women received: CEE-alone or…