INTERSECTIONALITY AND ITS IMPACT ON MICROAGGRESSION IN FEMALE PHYSICIANS IN ACADEMIC MEDICINE: A CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY

Intersectionality and Its Impact on Microaggression in Female Physicians in Academic Medicine: A Cross-Sectional Study

Introduction: The Womens Tees burden of microaggressions in the workplace is an ongoing stressor for female physicians in academic medicine.For female physicians of Color or of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Asexual community, this burden is even heavier due to the concept of intersectionality.The goal of this study is to

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Review: Walburga Freitag (2005). Contergan. Eine genealogische Studie des Zusammenhangs wissenschaftlicher Diskurse und biographischer Erfahrungen [Contergan. A Genealogical Study on Scientific Discourse and Biography]

In this genealogical study, Walburga FREITAG explores the conditions of subjectivity-building in relation to the powerful medical discourse on Contergan.The discourse theory of Michel FOUCAULT dominates Frames the key words for the empirical research: discourse, knowledge, power and body.The study aims to describe a transformation process, starting

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Comparative analysis of reconstructed ancestral proteins with their extant counterparts suggests primitive life had an alkaline habitat

Abstract To understand the origin and early evolution of life it is crucial to establish characteristics of the primordial environment that facilitated the emergence and evolution of life.One important environmental factor is the pH of the primordial environment.Here, we assessed the pH-dependent thermal stabilities of previously reconstructed ance

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The effective use of fluorides in public health

Dental caries remain a public health problem for many developing countries and for underprivileged populations in developed countries.This paper outlines the historical development of public health approaches to the use of fluoride and comments on their effectiveness.Early research and development was concerned with waterborne fluorides, both natur

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