sacredhands on Nov 20th, 2006Religion, Power, Older Women (and Lots of Feminist Rhetoric)
We’ve never heard of the Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology until spotting this article about how Samia women in Kenya are rejecting the idea of remarriage in order to halt male domination. So the next time you visit Africa, be sure to pick up a copy for that flight over. It’s always good to read up [...]
sacredhands on Sep 27th, 2006Sexual Behavior and Prostate Cancer in Black Men
The relationship between disease and sexual activity has a sad history in the annals of famous personalities. Deborah Hayden, in her book Pox, names a few biggies who suffered from syphilis: Baudelaire, Schubert, Schumann, Joyce, Columbus, Daudet, Poe, Gaugin, Churchill, Al Capone, Ivan the Terrible, Manet, Idi Amin, Darwin, Donizetti, Dostoyevsky, Lenin, Meriwether Lewis, Mozart, [...]
sacredhands on Aug 22nd, 2006Prostate Cancer in Black Men Tied to Genes
Genes are shaping up to become a better predictor of the future than a visit to a tarot card reader. A higher-than-usual incidence of prostate cancer in black men is one such insight.
Separate teams of gene hunters have homed in on key regions in the human genome to explain the higher-than-usual incidence of prostate cancer [...]
sacredhands on Jul 16th, 2006Tea with Nelson Mandela for Johannesburg Hospital on Ebay
“When you reach a certain point and you have had your struggles and you have had your successes, all of a sudden the most important thing becomes that no child should die without having had the chance to live his or her dreams and make their own mistakes too,” Mr Clinton said.
Tea with [...]