Health, public involvement, and gender: new voices, knowledges and practices Madrid, 21-23rd October 2019 The project Multiple voices, plural knowledges and biomedical technologies (MINECO:FFI2015-65947-C2 -1-P) invites contributions for the XIII International Workshop on Science, Technology and Gender to debate how public involvement (PPI) and gender are important to improvehealth and wellbeing and reduce health inequalities. The synergy between PPI and gender can make a difference to key issues in the fields of healthcare and research such as naming andframing of health problems; design of policy, services and governance plans; provision of health and social care; improving the … [Read more...] about XIII International Workshop Science, Technology and Gender (English/Spanish)
CPN Digest #40
Something for the weekend: Sporting Activities for Individuals Who Experienced Trauma During Their Youth: A Meta-Study It’s perfectly legal for doctors to charge huge amounts for surgery, but should it be allowed? Terry Eagleton on The History of Philosophy by AC Grayling The dancing species: how moving together in time helps make us human Robots aren’t coming for your job ... management is The Biopsychosocial Model of Health and Disease: New Philosophical and Scientific Developments Foucault on painting Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and an Illness-Focused Approach to Care: Controversy, Morality, and Paradox Diversity Is Not Just About the Differences We Like Wrapping up the … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #40
Critique of the biomedical model #4 – Standard Deviation
In many ways, the entire Western healthcare system is built around normalisation. The fact that it is the job of ‘the system’, and all those that work within it, to identify those people who are ill, sick, or suffering, and to offer them a cure, is so deeply entrenched in the way health services work that it would be hard to imagine it otherwise. But imagine it otherwise we must, or else the more problematic aspects of the approach remain hidden. Firstly, we should remember that normalisation is a social construct. What this means is that there is no object that you can point to to say “that is normalisation right there”. It is an idea; an invention, based on a set of principles that … [Read more...] about Critique of the biomedical model #4 – Standard Deviation