To reduce rates of unintended pregnancy, medical and public health associations endorse a
contraceptive counseling model that ranks birth control methods by failure rate. This tiered …

In this opinion piece, I argue that a sociology and anthropology of cure is accelerated by
various features of the scientific and social responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. I illustrate …

It is estimated that up to ten per cent of people with motor neurone disease (MND) have an
inherited form of the disease. Families with a history of inherited MND may face specific …

This chapter focuses on population-based screening and its use as a means of detecting
and preventing disease. The chapter provides an overview of social science research on …

During the 1960s and 1970s, the notion that the uterus is a useless and pathological organ
after a woman has had 'enough'children emerged alongside news reports of excessive …

Attention to how people engage with biomedical research has increased over the past two
decades. A combination of funding mechanisms, activism and policy reports have …

This thesis pursues 3 lines of research: a meta synthesis of the literature on how individuals
adjust to a diagnosis of Parkinson's disease (PD); an interpretive phenomenological …

Complete List of Authors: Wabnitz, Katharina; Ludwig Maximilians University Munich,
Institute for Medical Information Processing, Biometry and Epidemiology (IBE); Drössler …

Par son geste préventif, la médecine ouvre la voix à de nouvelles façons de voir et de faire
sur les questions de santé et de maladie. La médecine le fait au moyen de ses nombreux …