Attaining Womanhood

Sexual science: the Victorian construction of womanhood

of these case studies ably do; but having done this, to go beyond reductive explanations the historian must then ask why some people from the group elected to embrace that particular medical option while others did not. We also need to know much more about how public pronouncements about healing deployed in highly politicized arenas correspond to more private belief and behaviour. Most of these...

Finale: Attaining Excellence

Attaining Goals Through Partnerships

" To make interesting scientific discoveries, you should acquire as many good friends as possible, who are as energetic, intelligent, and knowledgeable as they can be. " Herbert A. Simpson, Nobel Laureate Models of My Life 1996 Popular science fiction novels and movies frequently portray scientists as solitary eccentrics conducting experiments in laboratories hidden behind revolving bookcases. ...

Attaining Monotonicity for Bayesian Networks

Many real-life Bayesian networks are expected to exhibit commonly known properties of monotonicity, in the sense that higher values for the observable variables should make higher values for the main variable of interest more likely. Yet, violations of these properties may inadvertently be introduced into a network despite careful engineering efforts. In this paper, we present a method for reso...

Where medicine meets the boundaries of manhood and womanhood.

W e are defined by sexual dimorphism. Male and female, the sexes we are (and are perceived to be), affect how we feel, how we behave and how we interact with others. We look around and see all complex creatures, including ourselves, as either male or female. This is so much a part of our daily existence that it reinforces the idea of manhood and womanhood as expressions of a natural order. We r...