Month: April 2015

• The Tail and the Dog: Cause and Effect in Medicine

  Does the tail ever wag the dog? Is an issue ever so compelling that cause and effect are reversed? Or at least suspended..? Sorry, I wonder about such things. I remember reading a book many years ago by the British philospher A.J. Ayer called The Problem of Knowledge. In it he discusses a religious sect […]

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  April 8, 2015

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  A.J. Ayer, adenocarcinoma of the stomach, benign nevus, cancer, cancer as religion, cancer of the cervix, Cause and Effect, Faulty syllogism, HPV, lymph node, menopause, mole, Tail wagging the dog, The Problem of Knowledge

• Nudging Childhood Obesity

  When I was a kid, obesity was not the norm. Admittedly, this was a long time ago, and no doubt I only remember brief and highly selective snippets of the time –modified, no doubt, to serve whatever demands are required in the present. But in these unexpurgated, sketches, I have memories of labeling the occasional […]

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  April 2, 2015

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  BBC, behaviour, Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health, CBC, childhood obesity, Dr. Brian Goldman, Erasmus, fat, folkways, Forbes, habits, mores, mythos, Nudge Theory, nudging, obesity, obesity as a norm, positive reinforcement, White coat black art

• Menstruation and Sports

  Okay, time to cross the line again. I’ve written about this before (see Menstrual Taboos  https://musingsonwomenshealth.wordpress.com/2014/11/26/menstrual-taboos/ ) but the issue keeps popping up. In the recent 2015 Australian Open, the top ranking female tennis player in Britain, Heather Watson, suffered a first round defeat. In the subsequent interview, as she was being grilled about what might […]

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  April 1, 2015

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  Australian Open, Girl things, Heather Watson, Karen Houppert, menstrual cycles, menstrual physiology, menstrual taboos, menstruation, menstruation and sports, Plato’s allegory of the Cave