Laura Marshall

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  Laura signed the petition | 10 months ago

  Tell CBS Outdoor not to run Anti-Vaccine Ad
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  Laura commented on the article | almost 3 years ago

  More Than Breasts and Babies

  Part of the longstanding problem--that calls out "women's health," but rarely "men's health"--is that in most patriarchal societies any thing that relates to the human body was assumed to relate to a male body.  Medical research, for decades, was performed only on men.  That, of course, led to assumptions that women were reacting differently to medications that worked fine in the male of the species because of their "hysterical" inclination (in the classic sense of the word, having to do with uterii).
  
  So when "women's health" was first called to attention, it was a sub-field of "general health," rather than an equal partner to men's health.  Logically--if wrong-headedly--"women's" health was focused on the body parts women had that men did not have.
  
  We know better, now, having studied and found the different drug responses in women and men... seen the different heart attack symptoms... observed and documented different fatality rates, response times, brain workings, etc.
  
  In a sense, we are more equal now that we know how very different we are.