Plastic surgery in gynaecology: Factors affecting women’s decision to undergo labiaplasty. Mind the risk of body dysmorphic disorder: A review

ABSTRACT

Aesthetic surgery of the female genitalia is on the rise. Many procedures are performed. Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) is a psychiatric disorder and often goes unrecognized in plastic surgery. This review examines actual knowledge of plastic surgery in gynecology, knowledge of motivational factors of women, and BDD. We carried out a systematic electronic search. We used a combination of relevant keywords to construct the search strategy. Included studies were systematic reviews or primary studies published 1990–2017 and containing information about BDD. Reviewers independently assessed study eligibility, extracted data, and assessed quality, undertaking narrative synthesis. The research revealed a variety of plastic procedures available and why women consider undergoing labia reduction surgery.     

‘Exercise is medicine’: Understanding the exercise beliefs and practices of older Chinese women immigrants in British Columbia, Canada

In this paper we examine how Western biomedical beliefs around exercise and related health practices compare and contrast with traditional Chinese medicine's (TCM) conceptions of health and exercise in a globalizing society, and how these narratives about health and physical activity are understood and taken up by 15 aging Chinese immigrant women (aged 65+) living in the multicultural city of Vancouver. Drawing upon theoretical work around the body and society to guide our analysis (including the ideas of Bourdieu and Foucault), we outline how the participants in our project take a pragmatic approach to their use of medicine, combining TCM with Western biomedicine in creative ways. However, understandings of the body are underpinned, we argue, by Eastern narratives of the ‘oneness’ of mind-body and the need for ‘balance’ in order to achieve health. Towards this end, we found that many of the participants view (and use) traditional Chinese body practices as an extension of TCM, a technique to help them achieve balance. We conclude that the neoliberal narrative of personal responsibility for health does not fuel the exercise practices of many of the participants, but rather that they perceive exercise as a pleasurable activity that improves their levels of happiness (and balance) and enhances their lives.     

农村教育研究的身体社会学视域

身体社会学为农村教育研究提供了一个新的分析视角。通过对农村教育场域中"活生生身体"的描述,可以把身体概念化为农村教育和文化关系性质的话语。身体不仅是一个可以窥透农村教育发展的社会性自我,还是一个能够传达农村教育发展的象征性自我。     

俄国作家蒲宁的爱情小说

俄国作家蒲宁爱情小说的主要思想艺术特点是社会现实内容淡化,在爱情中追求灵与肉的统一,爱情的悲剧性结局,不塑造典型人物等。其爱情小说要达到的目的,与其说是塑造性格鲜明、栩栩如生的人物形象,毋宁说是探讨爱情的法则,人物塑造描绘只是工具和手段,服务于他对爱情的研究。他的爱情小说继屠格涅夫之后开创了一代新文风。     

Factors that Influence Body Dissatisfaction: Comparisons across Culture and Gender

This study examined the relationship between attachment style, differentiation of self, and body dissatisfaction across culture and gender. The sample consisted of 115 Caucasians (85 females, 29 males) with a mean age of 22.2 years (SD = 5.81) and 119 Chinese individuals (93 females, 26 males) with a mean age of 22.8 years (SD = 2.35). Participants completed online self-report measures of body satisfaction, attachment style, and differentiation of self. Results indicated that high attachment anxiety and less differentiation of self were associated with lower body satisfaction for women but not for men of either cultural group. There were no significant cultural or gender differences in terms of overall body satisfaction; however, there were differences with regard to preoccupation with weight and self-perceived weight. It was concluded that culture had little impact on body dissatisfaction in the present sample but that the factors that shape body dissatisfaction differed by gender.     

身体社会学——当代社会学的理论转向

身体是目前越来越热的一个关键词,身体研究热潮的兴起意味着社会本身的深刻变革,同时,也将意味着社会学理论本身的转向.身体思想一直伴随着西方思想的兴起,从古希腊的柏拉图一直到当代,身体始终是一个很难被忽略的研究兴趣,传统社会学因为种种原因在一定程度上忽视了身体这个研究主题,但是,当代消费社会的兴起以及个人主义的兴盛,导致了身体重新复苏,人类学、哲学、医学等学科对身体的持久关注最终唤醒了社会学家关于身体研究的热情,当代身体研究的主题越来越宽广,权力、文化等政治、经济、文化等众多因素先后被引入了身体研究领域,身体社会学由此逐渐成为一门当代显学.     

敖汉细毛羊生长发育指标相关分析

经不同年龄段体重、体尺相关分析，敖汉细毛羊生长发育与其它同类型品种羊的规律基本一致，属于中晚熟品种；单胎羊与双胎羊有所不同，前者胚胎期生长发育快，初生重和初生体尺均大于后者，而后者初生后体重和体尺生长发育速度均大于前者，至周岁时二者差异几乎全部消灭。这一生长发育规律，可为单双羔选种选育提供参考依据。     

学校体育与能力培养

本文就寓能力培养于学校体育之中的一些问题进行探讨,对如何提高学生的身心健康,提高学生的综合能力,有着积极的意义。     

论授予WTO上诉机构发回重审权

WTO上诉机构的建立揭开了国际司法制度史上的崭新一页 ,对于整个争端解决机制的维护与发展具有深远的意义。然而 ,该上诉机构却缺乏通常上诉机构所拥有的一项重要权力———发回重审权。该权力的欠缺并非是无足轻重的 ,它已经引起了理论和实践中的某些混乱。为此 ,国际社会应对WTO上诉机制予以重新关注 ,并应尽快地赋予其发回重审权以切实维护所有WTO成员国的共同利益