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...government has established official guidelines, and physicians who follow them are not prosecuted. "The euthanasia debate is far from over, but there is an acceptance of the phenomenon," says Gerrit van der Wal, professor of social medicine at Amsterdam's Free University. "There's less discussion of the pros and cons, and more about how to control...
...answer to this question cannot be provided without a quick glance at the western historical preoccupation with female virginity. For most of Western history, and even in our current history, virginity has been an exclusively female phenomenon...
...medieval gynecologists were interested in determining female virginity, while male virginity was consistently overlooked. Even in the colonial period, Queen Elizabeth was heralded as the virtuous and Virgin Queen and the state of Virginia was named in celebration of this fact. Thus, our view of virginity as a female phenomenon is grounded in history and the beliefs of our forefathers...
...want to disseminate the idea that male virginity is acceptable, we have to move away from our historical obsession that defines virginity as a strictly feminine phenomenon. We must start defining virginity in a gender neutral sense. The Oxford English Dictionary (OED), the foremost authority on the English language, demonstrates the entrenchment of our association of virginity with females. According to the OED, a virgin is "an unmarried or chaste maiden, distinguished for piety or steadfastness in religion." The OED's second definition of virgin as "a woman (esp. a young woman) who is, or remains, in a state...
...Cambridge, England, where they identified the double-helix structure of DNA, the molecular substance that makes possible the transmission of inherited characteristics. In 1976 Crick joined the Salk Institute and geared his energies toward exploring the workings of the brain, including short- and long-term memory and the phenomenon of dreams. Watson's interest in genes has not diminished. The former Harvard professor continues to pursue genetic research as the president of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and is a past director of the Human Genome Project...