Week Four Readings

The NY Times article raises some interesting points about the impact that disease can have on women's lives, especially if women are naturally more likely to acquire these diseases. Something that became apparent to me while reading this article was the structure of how it was written. I feel like this article was "womanized" in that they appealed to the femininity of the woman, her feelings, her motherhood, where as if this article was written about men's diseases, perhaps some of the concepts would have been presented differently. Just a thought.

I never realized that there was an actual difference between the words "gender" and "sex". This article is very interesting because they take both the research and analytical approach of figuring out why there are differences between men and women in health while also creating distinguishing exactly where in medicine men and women differ. I always knew that because of our physical differences and hormone differences that men and women functioned differently, but I never thought that our differences would affect us so much to differ the rate at which we are susceptible to autoimmune diseases. Taking both of these actions is important so as to be proactive while also looking out for the health of the population in the future.