[Recensão a] RUBY BLONDELL (2015), Helen of Troy: Beauty, Myth, Devastation

A Melancholy Scene of Devastation

The chapters are simple and easy to follow with plenty of room along the margins to take additional notes. The clinical considerations at the end of each section are also helpful in showing how cell biology plays a role in pathology. For a quick review, this book also provides figures and tables that summarize the information in an integrative way. These figures are helpful in understanding the...

The Female Beauty Myth Fostered by the Mass Media

This paper starts with a critical view of beautiful female images in the mass media being frequently generated by a stereotypical Korean concept of beauty. Several female beauty myths have evolved in Korea during the present decade. Nearly all of them have formed due to a deeply-ingrained androcentric ideology which objectifies women. Mass media causes the public to hold a distorted concept abo...

Helen.

Fred C . Jensen , Troy

There are two reasons for s tudying the possible role of the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) in relation to rheumato id arthritis (RA). The first is the recent demonstrat ion by Alspaugh and co-workers that EBV infection o f normal peripheral blood lymphocytes induces the development in these cells of a nuclear antigen against which most patients with RA have precipitat ing antibodies (I). The second ...

A conversation with Helen Hobbs.

Helen Hobbs, an HHMI investigator, professor at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, and director of the Dallas Heart Study, is best known for her research focused on identifying genetic factors that predispose people to developing metabolic disorders and heart disease. By studying outliers in the Dallas Heart Study, Hobbs (Figure 1) uncovered a genetic defect responsible for lo...