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Report: Forme di vita emergenti tra potenziamento e medicalizzazione (Università di Salerno, 29 marzo 2017) [PDF]

S&F_scienzaefilosofia.it, 2017
Emergent Life Forms between Enhancement and Medicalization The connection between biotechnologies and subjectivation processes has become a central topic in biopolitical and bioethical debates. The March 29, 2017, at the University of Salerno, there was
MEOLA, LORELLA
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Ambiguous Bodies, Biopower and the Ideologies of Science Fiction [PDF]

, 2016
Contemporary Hollywood film narrates the fear of monstrous science; attending to the modulations of medicine, capital and the body. The filmic body is employed to illustrate the power of the new biotechnologies to create and sustain life and the new ...
Flynn, Susan
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Adherence to Protocol Recommendations for Children With Wilms Tumour in Two Consecutive Studies in the United Kingdom and Ireland—Does Variation Matter?

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background and Aims Wilms tumour (WT) has excellent event‐free and overall survival (OS). However, small differences exist between countries participating in the same international study. This led us to examine variation in adherence to protocol recommendations as a potential contributing factor.
Suzanne Tugnait, R. Al‐Saadi, A. Lopez‐Cortes, K. Dzhuma, M. Oostveen, J. Brok, S. Irtan, M. Weeks, J. Bate, S. Baker, R. Williams, M. Powis, D. Saunders, O. Olsen, T. Watson, S. Shelmerdine, S. Vaidya, L. Howell, C. Duncan, G. M. Vujanic, C. Stiller, G. P. Balchin, T. Chowdhury, K. Pritchard‐Jones   +23 more
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Competing Models of Disability: Medicalization’s Ambivalent Effects on the Paralympic Movement

Socius
Disability is predominantly understood as a medical problem. Since the 1980s, disability scholars have critiqued the medicalization of disability to illuminate disability’s social and political dimensions.
Evan T. Baughman
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The new holism: P4 systems medicine and the medicalization of health and life itself

Medicine, Health care and Philosophy, 2016
The emerging concept of systems medicine (or ‘P4 medicine’—predictive, preventive, personalized and participatory) is at the vanguard of the post-genomic movement towards ‘precision medicine’.
Henrik Vogt, B. Hofmann, L. Getz
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Sirolimus for Extracranial Arteriovenous Malformations: A Scoping Review of the Evidence in Syndromic and Non‐Syndromic Cases

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) are rare, high‐flow, vascular anomalies that can occur either sporadically or as part of a genetic syndrome. AVMs can progress with serious morbidity and even mortality if left unchecked. Sirolimus is an mTOR inhibitor that is effective in low‐flow vascular malformations; however, its role in AVMs is unclear.
Will Swansson, Ingrid Winship, Gary Hammerschlag, Laura Scardamaglia   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluating the Utility of Paired Tumor and Germline Targeted DNA Sequencing for Pediatric Oncology Patients: A Single Institution Report

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To evaluate the diagnostic yield and utility of universal paired tumor–normal multigene panel sequencing in newly diagnosed pediatric solid and central nervous system (CNS) tumor patients and to compare the detection of germline pathogenic/likely pathogenic variants (PV/LPVs) against established clinical referral criteria for cancer ...
Natalie Waligorski, Rebecca Ronsley, Shannon M. Stasi, Jeffrey Stevens, Erin R. Rudzinski, Christina M. Lockwood, Sarah E. S. Leary, Bonnie L. Cole, Michelle A. Ting, Vera Paulson   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Psychological, Social, and Clinical Outcomes of Medicalization During Pregnancy and Childbirth: A Scoping Review [PDF]

Journal of Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences
Background and purpose: With the increasing use of medical technologies, questions arise about the benefits and risks of these technologies for mothers and newborns.
Zeinab Hashemi, Mansoureh Hasanzadeh, Zohreh Shahhosseini   +2 more
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A-socio-logy of psychiatric disorder. A study of controversies surrounding etiology, diagnosis and therapy of ADHD [PDF]

Avant, 2013
The aim of this article is to analyze the controversies surrounding ADHD and the process whereby this psychiatric unit was formed and constituted as a social and scientific fact. We focus mainly on the arguments around ADHD in the United States – this is
Michał Wróblewski, Łukasz Afeltowicz
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[Social practices in the medicalization and humanization of prenatal care].

Cadernos de Saúde Pública, 2018
The study's main objective is to analyze how discourses of medicalization and humanization reconnect in primary healthcare and shape prenatal care for pregnant women provided by family health teams.
Cristine Maria Warmling, Ananyr Porto Fajardo, D. Meyer, C. Bedos   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source