_____Like many scientist, the medical community viewed the human body with the mind of a physicist. Doctors accepted the idea that a woman's energy is centered around her reproductive organs. When a woman suffered a medical problem, doctors usually diagnosed the problem as a misdirection of energy. Energy channeled from the womb: __________would cause an imbalance in her [the woman's] body resulting __________in exhaustion, infection or disorders of the reproductive __________organs, which in turn might …showed first 75 words of 890 total…

…showed last 75 words of 890 total…thyroids, a deficiency of hormonelike __________substances called prostaglandic, steroid fluctuations or the __________like. 10 With no apparent cause or cure, PMS becomes a twentieth century version of the imbalance of energy theory. _____Though women may find it convenient to blame negative feelings or behaviors on a "biological" factor, they should be wary of phantom illnesses. Women must demand that scientist treat the female body as more than a pair of ovaries or a receptacle for semen.