Health, Medicine and Agency
| Created: | 2018-12-03 08:55 |
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| Institution: | Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities |
| Editors' group: | Editors group for "Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities". |
| Description: | In what ways do individuals influence the kinds of medical treatment options widely available? The “Health, medicine and agency” research network posits that patient agency has been a central factor in shaping processes of medicalisation and biomedicalisation across a broad range of geographical and cultural contexts. In recent history, patient 'expertise' has been the driving force behind a wide range of social movements in the health sphere, from natural childbirth and euthanasia request to the rejection of compulsory vaccinations and unregulated use of antibiotics. The associated risks to health, fiercely polarized public opinion, and emergent subjectivities that have accompanied such social movements invite critical exploration. “Heath, medicine and agency” brings into focus the growing importance of, and controversies surrounding, individual and patient agency by adopting an interdisciplinary perspective, thereby engaging work in the humanities, social and medical sciences, and creative arts.
Themes Michaelmas Term 2018: Patient Needs Lent Term 2019: Patient experience |
| Website: | http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/programmes/health-medicine-and-agency |
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Health Medicine Agency Research Network
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An introduction to the Health Medicine Agency Research Network at CRASSH, 2018 – 2021
http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/programmes/health-medicine-and-agency
Collection: Health, Medicine and Agency
Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
Created: Mon 7 Sep 2020
Health, Medicine and Agency - 13 May 2019 - Patients, Health Experiences and Collective Action
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Roundtable
Dr Tracey Loughran (Reader in History, University of Essex)
Dr Kate Mahoney (Research Associate in History, University of Essex)
Dr Robert Pralat (Research...
Collection: Health, Medicine and Agency
Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
Created: Tue 14 May 2019
Health, Medicine and Agency - 17 November 2020 - Dr Jessica Borge on the Fall of the British-Made Condom
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Dr Jessica Borge’s presentation: 'It should have been a Bonanza': AIDS, Photo Processing, and the Fall of the British-Made Condom. Given at Heath, Medicine and Agency’s Roundtable...
Collection: Health, Medicine and Agency
Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
Created: Mon 23 Nov 2020
Health, Medicine and Agency - 19 January 2021 - 'Telemedicine Is a Struggle Every Week': Invisible Practices of Machine...
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Fernando Valenzuela
'Telemedicine Is a Struggle Every Week': Invisible Practices of Machine Work in a Telemedicine Unit in Chile
In processes of implementation of...
Collection: Health, Medicine and Agency
Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
Created: Tue 26 Jan 2021
Health, Medicine and Agency - 19 January 2021 - Digital Diagnostic Technologies | Covid, Cognition and the Spaces of...
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Richard Milne and Alessia Costa (Wellcome Genome Campus)
Covid, Cognition and the Spaces of Digital Health
In this paper we present the findings from a study of ethics in...
Collection: Health, Medicine and Agency
Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
Created: Tue 26 Jan 2021
Health, Medicine and Agency - 19 November 2018 - Patient Needs: Medical Technologies, (In)Equalities and New Imaginary...
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Round table
Dr Cathy Herbrand (Reader in Medical Sociology,Centre for Reproduction Research, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, De Montfort University)
Dr Manuela Perrotta ...
Collection: Health, Medicine and Agency
Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
Created: Mon 3 Dec 2018
Health, Medicine and Agency - 2 June 2020 - The Relationship Between Health and Stigma
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Dr Brigit McWade (Lancaster University)
Stop ‘Sucking off the Stigma’: Refusing Mental Health Anti-Stigma Campaigns
This paper examines the cultural and political economy of...
Collection: Health, Medicine and Agency
Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
Created: Fri 5 Jun 2020
Health, Medicine and Agency - 6 October 2020 - Roundtable: Mental Health and Agency in Clinical Encounters
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This is an online event hosted via Zoom. To attend please register on Eventbrite or click the button REGISTER ONLINE. If you have any questions, please email Isabelle Le...
Collection: Health, Medicine and Agency
Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
Created: Mon 19 Oct 2020
Health, Medicine and Agency - 8 June 2021 - Race and Sexual and Reproductive Health
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Maud Bracke
Whose choice? Family planning, reproductive agency, demography and race in 1950s-70s France
The paper analyses debates on family planning, demography, and gender...
Collection: Health, Medicine and Agency
Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
Created: Thu 24 Jun 2021