Quiz March 29, OI 77-109
1. What was ambiguous about the vampire metaphor, for Biss?
2. What struck Biss as both magical and mundane?
3. Smallpox is now no longer a disease, but a what?
4. Who were the Polio Pioneers? Where is polio still endemic, and why?
5. What are the profound differences between ethyl and methyl mercury?
6. How did Andrew Wakefield cause a "cascade of panic"?
7. Who accused WHO of collusion in 2009?
8. Why does Susan Sontag say public health is difficult to promote in our society?
9. Why does Arthur Caplan say the marketplace model of healthcare is dangerous?
10. When would Biss consider surgery a conservative option?
11. For what is there no credible evidence, "Dr. Bob" notwithstanding?
12. What's Biss's Dad's argument for preventive medicine?
March 27, OI 40-76
1. "Natural" has popularly come to mean what, in the context of medicine?
2. The most unnatural aspect of vaccination is what?
3. What led to the creation of the EPA?
4. What kind of thinking makes no room for ambiguous identities, and what does it threaten?
5. What "troubling dualisms" characterize the vaccination debate?
6. What practice went on in China and India for hundreds of years, to combat smallpox?
7. What metaphor is implied by "inoculation"?
8. What disappointed Biss about the immuno-semiotics conference?
9. What game metaphor does Biss prefer, to describe our immune systems and viral pathogens?
10. What caused the fatal form of croup that has virtually disappeared in this country since the '30s?
11. What caused the spread of puerpal sepsis ("childbed fever")?
12. What would exceed federal food-safety levels for DDT and PCBs at the grocery store, if sold there?
March 20, Brave New World
1. Define medicalization.
2. What is social iatrogenesis?
3. What is a practical example of social iatrogenesis?
4. Peter Conrad has proposed to consider medicalization in what three respects?
5. What are the engines of medicalization?
6. (T/F) The use of pharmaceuticals and medicalization are the same thing.
7. What aspects of medicalization are not directly connected to the use of drugs?
8. (T/F) There are situations of medicalization which do not include the consumption of pharmaceuticals as their main feature.
9. What situations of medicalization do not include the consumption of pharmaceuticals as their main feature?
10. Define pharmaceuticalization
11. Give an example of pharmaceuticalization
12. What three main causes are proposed to have fostered pharmaceuticalization?
13. (T/F) Causes of mental illness are often described as etiology unknown.
14. What are the main consequences of the latest version of the DSM?
15. Define risks.
16. Define dangers.
17. As related to health, risk may be connected to what?
18. (T/F) It can be easier for political institutions to embrace a clinical and biological definition of a disease instead of addressing the social causes underlying these pathological conditions.
19. What is lacking in the risk factor model?
20. Define human enhancement.
March 22, OI 3-39.
1. The stories of Achilles and the dragon imply what about immunity?
2. "A valuable asset placed in the care of someone to whom it does not ultimately belong" is Biss's definition of what? OR, it captures her understanding of what?
3. Our vaccines are now sterile, so anti-vaccine activists' greatest fear is not of bacterial but ____ contamination.
4. What is Dracula about, besides vampires?
5. Who said love is known "by its fruits"?
6. Contributions to the "banking of immunity" give rise to the principle of ____ immunity.
7. What's the most common way that infants contract hep B?
8. What raises the probability that undervaccinated children will contract a disease?
9. Who or what were microbiologist Graham Rook's "old friends"?
10. "There is never enough evidence to prove that an event _____ happen? (can/can't)
March 15, Medical Paternalism
1. What is “autonomy” drawn from vs. “paternalism” being drawn from the role of the father?
2. According to Childress what makes paternalism morally interesting?
3. In what cases should a physician override one person's autonomy?
4.What does Dworkin call liberty in contradiction to liberty as license?
5. what are the two factors of justification often given for paternalistic interventions?
6.What two matters does the duty to respect autonomy involve?
7. What could a policy that affirms “you should care for yourself” be interpreted as?
March 1, Origin
1. What is evolution?
2. What is entropy?
3. What is the proposed Seventh Kingdom?
4. What happens to humans and technology, according to Edmond Kirsch?
5. What is the price of greatness?
6. Are humans in a symbiotic relationship with technology already?
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ReplyDeleteLab Grown Meat (3/13/18)
ReplyDelete1. How much was the first-ever lab grown meatball by pound?
2. Why do some researchers say that lab grown meat might be better for us?
3. What hormone has been banned in farm animals in Europe but is still legal in America?
4. What does Graham Colditz say about removing heme iron from meats?
5. What will saturated fat be replaced with in lab-grown meat?
6. The products of what reaction gives meat its enticing flavor?
7. What are one of the consequences of removing fat, iron, or adding to much omega-3?
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ReplyDeleteScientific Dishonesty: Creating an Anti-Vaccination movement
By: Vincent Lehman
What should be done to those found guilty of scientific dishonesty? I'm not talking about "adjusting" a little bit of data in your organic chemistry two lab here. I'm talking about grossly, and knowingly skew data and/or make subjective interpretations from data that should be objective.
Ultimately, those in the scientific community maintain some level of credibility today. That is, people believe in science ... for the most part anyway. Now, if many of our scientists, or even a few for that matter, are running amuck skewing data , or making subjective interpretation where they shouldn't be made. The consequences of these actions are a lack of faith in the scientific community. Already the medical community has a bad reputation, lets work to keep the scientific community safe from that.
I wanted to point out how important truth and objectivity is in science, because of the consequences of Andrew Wakefield's so called study. Wakefield was receiving funds from attorneys of autistic parents with a vested interest in his scientific outcome. That is, if there were a link between mmr vaccination and autism found, they stood to potentially profit. Now, the scene is painted for a bit of scientific dishonesty to occur. I don't think anyone could have realized, with what dire consequences.
Fast forward from 1998 to 2018. There is now a movement of people who think that vaccinations are the cause of some disabilities, and diseases. An "anti vaccination" community, hell bent on discrediting medical science, and truly objective data that suggests these things are safe, and very necessary disease prevention measures. This community has become very large, and actually pretty adept at making their misguided conceptions seem legitimate; using social media outlets, radio and television in some cases to spread their propaganda.
Now, as a consequence to this large group buying into this hype, and spreading the word that vaccines are unsafe, an ever-growing number of young parents begin to question...Are vaccines safe? Is this the best thing for my child? Can I really trust the medical community with respect to the health of my family anymore?
What a sad modern consequence to have as the result of an experiment whereby scientific dishonesty occurred.
The saddest part of this anti-vaccination community is that they don't see logic. In my opinion, that is the worst kind of pillar to hold onto, whereby one maintains a belief opposite what is logical, or suggested by evidence. I think its stupid to be honest. Everyone always has an opinion, and often times those without a true understanding can have a strong voice and convince others.
The most damaging part of this "anti-vax" movement is the risk they pose to the masses that ARE vaccinated. For one, unvaccinated children are at risk for getting some of the diseases that the scientific community has worked long and diligently to stamp out. What a travesty in and of itself. Helping sick kids is one thing I feel very strongly about, and sometimes in order to help, I think it takes the vision to see what MIGHT happen, and so take precautionary measures to avoid the circumstance before it happens. When we talk about things like evolution, everyones mind always jumps straight to people from apes and the egg before the chicken type of questions. Here is a good time for evolutionary understanding to inject itself into the situation. Viruses and bacteria evolve at extremely fast rates. There's a reason these things are known to be some of the earliest organisms in existence on our earth. When someone gets infected, with something, within their body, that virus or bacteria becomes unique to that person in many ways, by undergoing mutations.
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What I'm getting at here, is that these high risk, unvaccinated people and their children offer a vessel for a virus/bacteria to evolve into something that our current set of vaccinations WONT work on, and the bigger the community that is unvaccinated, the higher the risk. Remember when disease and infection ravaged our people in the millions? Smallpox, plague and et cetera? Oh...you don't! That's right, because the scientific community killed that stuff. Stamped it out!!! Now, smallpox isn't even something we vaccinate against (unless you're in the military) because it was the first disease declared eradicated...which may not be an ENTIRELY accurate statement.
I hope that the laws that we enact in the future will be grounded in logic, reason, and put some trust into the scientific community. We have to do something in terms of law, because eventually, something nasty is going to mutate in an unvaccinated person, and spread to those who are vaccinated.