Over the course of this class I have highlighted several technologues that are aimed at empowering women but instead are manipulated to exploit the female demographic. It just seems reasonable that a solution to this technology induced situation, is technology itself. This blog post discusses one such intervention that has seen success in India. As [...]
Cervical cancer is a huge problem for women, both in India and worldwide. In India, it is the leading malignancy among women, with an incidence of 90,000 cases/year (2). There are various methods of detecting cervical cancer. In the U.S., Pap smear cytology is generally employed as a cervical cancer detection method. However, this method [...]
As 2015 quickly approaches, many countries are working hard to reach the health-related Millennium Development Goals identified by the World Health Organization. Improving maternal health is one of the eight Millennium Development Goals. It includes reducing the maternal mortality ratio by three quarters and achieving universal access to reproductive health services. (1) Some countries have [...]
Over the past decade the quality of medical care has skyrocketed. Life expectancies have significantly increased, and this improvement in medicine is attributed to the technological developments in the medical community. Although the spectrum of medical devices includes a vast array of products from condoms to heart-lung machines, many basic medical devices are not yet [...]
After researching and writing all of my blogs on maternal mortality, I have encountered several underlying causes correlated with the increased rate of death among child bearing women in developing countries. First, there is a very high prevalence of home births without attending midwifes or medical staff. Second, unsafe abortion is sadly very common, contributing [...]
After our debate on Wednesday, I started thinking about media globalization and its effect on other societies. Since I was on the “pro” globalization side, I wanted to research the positive effects that the media has had on less-developed countries. I also thought it might be good to present the other side of media globalization [...]
Advances in technology has enabled us to create babies in test-tubes and make fertility problems a thing of the past. That same technology today let’s us even pre-screen our embryos! Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD or PIGD) (also known as embryo screening) is one such marvel of science. It refers to procedures that are performed on [...]
Women in Media
Since this class started, I chose to focus my blog posts on the media’s impact on women’s body satisfaction. However, one aspect of this area that I have been missing is women who work in media. Right now there is a huge disparity of women who work in journalism or for major television networks. For [...]