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Lecture Outline: Health the 21st Century

The 21 st Century Patient 2. Health Technology in the 21 st Century 3. The New Genetics 4. The 21 st Century Body 5. Risk Society & the Lure of the Natural. Lecture Outline: Health the 21st Century. ‘Remission Society’ Screening & Prevention Old & New Diseases.

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Lecture Outline: Health the 21st Century

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  1. The 21st Century Patient 2. Health Technology in the 21st Century 3. The New Genetics 4. The 21st Century Body 5. Risk Society & the Lure of the Natural Lecture Outline: Health the 21st Century

  2. ‘Remission Society’ Screening & Prevention Old & New Diseases 1. The 21st Century Patient

  3. ‘Remission Society’ Screening & Prevention Old & New Diseases 1. The 21st Century Patient

  4. Post-modern medical ‘experts’ Personal & lay knowledge Old Medicine vs New Medicine Health as a Commodity 1. The 21st Century Patient

  5. “Technology is Circe – handmaiden to the medical profession. The media, some health care professionals & informal kinship & friendship networks bombard individuals with messages about the value of recent biotechnical breakthroughs.”

  6. Health activism & self-responsibility Health technology - control & ethics The potential of technology Reproductive technologies – IVF & surrogate motherhood 2. Health Technology in the 21st Century

  7. The New Genetics & concepts of ‘at risk’ vs ‘abnormal’ Genetics & ethical questions Genetics & personal responsibility 3. The New Genetics

  8. Individualism & responsibility Genetics & family ‘pedigrees’ Genetics & ‘surveillance creep’ Genetics as the new eugenics? 3. The New Genetics

  9. Technology & the Body Improving the body through supplementation The ‘Trans-human Bodyshop’ & ‘Cyber-medicine’ Plastic Bodies 4. The 21st Century Body

  10. No longer can we merely dress up the body we happen to have, or improve it by losing weight or having a beauty makeover or straightening out the curve in our nose. We must actually purchase a ‘new body.’ Glasner, 1995

  11. Discourses of risk in the post-modern world Responsibility & choice – regulating individual lives & bodies Risk & surveillance society 5. Risk Society & the Lure of the Natural

  12. Environmental risk Global risk ‘The natural’ & managing risk 5. Risk Society & the Lure of the Natural

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