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Just Like a Woman
In her new book, The Female Brain, neuropsychiatrist Louann Brizendine says the structure of women’s brains accounts for the sex differences in the ways men and women communicate and handle emotions. Plus, the celebrations for young Latina women, reaction to the Middle East ceasefire and the ethics of medical testing on prisoners.
Ethical Treatment
Dr. James Ketchum, psychiatrist
- thinks testing on prisoners is ethical
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Allen Hornblum , professor of Crime & Punishment, Politics, Public Policy, and Medical Ethics at Temple University and author, Acres of Skin: Human Experiments at Holmesburg Prison (Routledge, 1998)
- is against testing on prisoners
» Allen Hornblum's bio at Temple University
Fifteen Candles
Michele Salcedo, city editor at the Florida Sun-Sentinel and author, Quinceanera!: The Essential Guide to Planning the Perfect Sweet Fifteen Celebration (Henry Holt 1997)
- on La Quincenera
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Richard Glatzer, co-director of Quinceañera
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Wash Westmoreland, co-director of the film Quinceañera
- on his film Quinceañera
» Quineanera the film
Just Like a Woman
Louann Brizendine, neuropsyciatrist at the University of California, San Francisco, founder of the Women's and Teen Girls' Mood and Hormone Clinic and author,
The Female Brain (Morgan Road Books, 2006)
- argues the structure of the female brain is different from men's
» an excerpt from The Female Brain on ABC’s website
Giving Cease a Chance
Kevin Peraino, Jerusalem Bureau Chief for Newsweek Magazine
- on reaction to the U.N.-brokered ceasefire in Israel and Lebanon
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