Thanks to Keith Campbell [1], Dolly the wonder sheep has arrived in Scotland, at he modest price of $750,000. Mankind has been thus dragged yet nearer to the Huxleyean Brave New World.
The existing structural nature of women's work (domestic as well as non-domestic) has severe built-in hazards for women (reproductive and otherwise) which no amount of first rate quality of care, total coverage and/or access to health services alone can deal with.
The health of the general population as well as specific groups (infants, women, etc) has for long been an important concern for development studies.
In many developing countries, women's activities, traditionally confined to the household, have changed over time.
There can be little doubt that the last two hundred years have seen advances in health which have seldom before been witnessed in human history.