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Selective abortion of female fetuses is a widespread, illegal, and profoundly consequential form of family planning in contemporary India. In Gujarat state, public health campaigns against the practice rely on narratives exhibiting the hallmarks of melodrama: good-evil binaries, stock characters, emotional provocations, simplistic diagnoses, and inevitable triumphs. As biopolitical truths, such narratives resonate ethically and emotionally for people.
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Opioid Agonist Therapy (OAT) has initiated extensive discussion regarding its efficacy, cost-effectiveness and best practice delivery. Although this discussion has been dominated by pharmacologists, clinicians, pharmacists and public policy-makers, there is increasing interest in examining OAT consumer experience and voice, particularly regarding consumers' navigation and experience of the social field of their treatment. Concerned with the expression and circulation of power and resistance, Michel Foucault's work offers rich resources for examining OAT consumers' experience and navigation of the social field of their treatment, including the administration of OAT as a harm reduction and social welfare intervention and consumers' efforts to shape their relationships with medical and allied health professionals and other stakeholders.
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Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, 97105-900, Santa Maria/RS, Brazil Universidade Federal de Santa Maria Santa Maria Brazil.
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View Article and Find Full Text PDFIs ageing undesirable? An ethical analysis.
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Department of Philosophy I, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain.
The technical possibilities of biomedicine open up the opportunity to intervene in ageing itself with the aim of mitigating, reducing or eliminating it. However, before undertaking these changes or rejecting them outright, it is necessary to ask ourselves if what would be lost by doing so really has much value. This article will analyse the desirability of ageing from an individual point of view, without circumscribing this question to the desirability or undesirability of death.
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