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Call for Papers “Responsibility in Biomedical Practices”
Medicine Studies - Tập 2 - Trang 211-211 - 2010
In Search of Immortality: The Political Economy of Anti-aging Medicine
Medicine Studies - Tập 1 - Trang 267-279 - 2009
Anti-aging medicine is characterised by significant ‘hype’, hope and promise. This article examines the conditions giving rise to and sustaining this field. It questions its key premises, highlights the politico-economic ‘drivers’ of its innovations, and identifies the key actor networks sustaining its practices. As the article argues, it is highly questionable whether the viability of anti-aging ......
Eugenics, the Genome, and Human Rights
Medicine Studies - Tập 1 - Trang 85-93 - 2009
This article assesses the potential impact of current genomics research on human rights against the backdrop of the eugenics movement in the English-speaking world during first third of the twentieth century, The echo of eugenic interventions in societies far beyond Nazi Germany reverberates in the ethical debates triggered by the potential inherent in recent molecular biological developments. Man......
The Evaluation of Psychopharmacological Enhancers Beyond a Normative “Natural”–“Artificial” Dichotomy
Medicine Studies - Tập 3 - Trang 19-27 - 2011
The extra-therapeutic use of psychotropic drugs to improve cognition and to enhance mood has been the subject of controversial discussion in bioethics, in medicine but also in public for many years. Concerns over a liberal dealing with pharmacological enhancers are raised not only from a biomedical–pharmacological perspective, but particularly from an ethical one. Within these ethical concerns, th......
Mahesh Ananth: In Defense of an Evolutionary Concept of Health: Nature, Norms and Human Biology
Medicine Studies - Tập 4 - Trang 113-117 - 2014
‘Skin Trade’: Genealogy of Anti-ageing ‘Whiteness Therapy’ in Colonial Medicine
Medicine Studies - Tập 4 - Trang 119-129 - 2014
This article investigates the extent to which the emerging trend of do-it-yourself anti-ageing skin-whitening products represents a re-articulation of Western colonial concerns with environmental pollution and racial degeneracy into concern with gendered vulnerability. This emerging market is a multibillion dollar industry anchored in the USA, but expanding globally. Do-it-yourself anti-ageing ski......
Therapeutic Intervention of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder by Chinese Medicine: Perspectives for Transdisciplinary Cooperation Between Life Sciences and Humanities
Medicine Studies - Tập 4 - Trang 71-89 - 2013
Taking post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as an example, we present a concept for transdisciplinary cooperation between life sciences and humanities. PTSD is defined as a long-term persisting anxiety disorder after severe psychological traumata. Initially recognized in war veterans, PTSD also appears in victims of crime and violence or survivors of natural catastrophes, e.g., earthquakes. We co......
Understanding Schizophrenic Delusion: The Role of Some Primary Alterations of Subjective Experience
Medicine Studies - Tập 3 - Trang 233-248 - 2012
This paper explores the possibility of understanding schizophrenic delusion through the role of a primary alteration of subjective experience. Two approaches are contrasted: the first defines schizophrenic delusion as a primary symptom resisting any attempt to understand, whereas the second describes delusion as a secondary symptom, to be understood as a rational reaction of the self. The paper di......
Teaching the Anatomy of Death: A Dying Art?
Medicine Studies - Tập 2 - Trang 1-19 - 2010
Along with anatomical dissection, attendance at hospital autopsies has historically been seen as an essential part of medical education. While the use of the dead body for teaching purposes is losing favour in Australian medical schools, this shift is preceded by a significant decline in the rate of autopsies nationwide (and internationally). The decline of the autopsy has particular implications ......
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