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This edited collection interrogates how social and cultural representations of individuals with intersex variations impact how they are understood and treated from legal and medical perspectives across the world. Contributors consider how novelists, filmmakers, artists, and medical professionals have represented people with intersex variations, and highlight the importance of ethical representation and autonomy to encourage wider cultural and medical knowledge of intersex variations as a naturally occurring phenomenon. The text also examines the ways in which individuals with intersex variations are represented and viewed in India, Italy, Pakistan and Israel, as well as how this impacts decision making for the individuals, families and medical providers. This book argues that reactions to intersex variations will not change unless they are no longer presented as treatable disorders. It positions representation at the forefront, shifting the emphasis away from a concern for maintaining gender norms to upholding the human rights of intersex people. This volume will be of interest to researchers and scholars in intersex studies as well as policymakers and activists. -- Provided by publisher.

Interdisciplinary and global perspectives on intersex / Megan Walker, editor.

"A critique of 'free will' that draws on neuroscience, philosophy, and religion"--Provided by publisher.

The self beyond itself : an alternative history of ethics, the new brain sciences, and the myth of free will / Heidi M. Ravven.

The first in a three-part series in which Michael Mosley explores the history of experimental psychology. This part focuses on mind control and Mosley looks at how science has been used to try to control our minds and what it is that gives us autonomy. Mosley takes a class A hallucinogenic drug, Psilocybin, the active ingredient of magic mushrooms - his brain is scanned whilst the drug is having an effect. Archival footage of Pavlov's experiments on conditioned reflexes in both humans and dogs is shown. Other more sophisticated methods of mind manipulation were to be developed in the US - Mosley looks at the work of B.F. Skinner and meets his daughter Deborah Buzan. We also hear about the brainwashing activities of William Sargant in the UK; one of his patients, Mary, describes how his treatments affected her mind. The work of Project MKULTRA is described in detail - they used techniques of sensory deprivation and experimented on subjects with hallucinogenic drugs in a bid to affect mind control. US social psychologist Stanley Milgram wanted to work out what was in the minds of, for instance, Germans when they committed atrocities against the Jews; one of his experiments is shown in which he proved that in order to obey authority, ordinary people could be persuaded to perform acts of extreme cruelty. Robert Heath's experiments with brain electrodes to alter behaviour on animals and humans is shown and Mosley talks about how Heath encouraged a gay man to have successful sexual intercourse with a woman after having electrode stimulation. And Mosley meets Gero Miesenbock who is conducting experiments which manipulate the psychological behaviour of flies.

The brain: a secret history. Part 1, Mind control.

Patient-centered care for chronic illness is founded upon the informed and activated patient, but we are not clear what this means. We must understand patients as subjects who know things and as agents who do things. Bioethics has urged us to respect patient autonomy, but it has understood this autonomy narrowly in terms of informed consent for treatment choice. In chronic illness care, the ethical and clinical challenge is to not just respect, but to promote patient autonomy, understood broadly as the patients' overall agency or capacity for action. The primary barrier to patient action in chronic illness is not clinicians dictating treatment choice, but clinicians dictating the nature of the clinical problem. The patient's perspective on clinical problems is now often added to the objective-disease perspective of clinicians as health-related quality of life (HRQL). But HRQL is merely a hybrid transitional concept between disease-focused and health-focused goals for clinical care. Truly patient-centered care requires a sense of patient-centered health that is perceived by the patient and defined in terms of the patient's vital goals. Patient action is an essential means to this patient-centered health, as well as an essential component of this health. This action is not extrinsically motivated adherence, but intrinsically motivated striving for vital goals. Modern pathophysiological medicine has trouble understanding both patient action and health. The self-moving and self-healing capacities of patients can be understood only if we understand their roots in the biological autonomy of organisms. Taking the patient as the primary perceiver and producer of health has the following policy implications: 1] Care will become patient-centered only when the patient is the primary customer of care. 2] Professional health services are not the principal source of population health, and may lead to clinical, social and cultural iatrogenic injury. 3] Social justice demands equity in health capability more than equal access to health services. -- Provided by publisher.

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Interdisciplinary and global perspectives on intersex / Megan Walker, editor.

The self beyond itself : an alternative history of ethics, the new brain sciences, and the myth of free will / Heidi M. Ravven.

The brain: a secret history. Part 1, Mind control.

The patient as agent of health and health care / Mark D. Sullivan.

Practical autonomy and bioethics / James Stacey Taylor.

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Personal Autonomy

Works

Interdisciplinary and global perspectives on intersex / Megan Walker, editor.

The self beyond itself : an alternative history of ethics, the new brain sciences, and the myth of free will / Heidi M. Ravven.

The brain: a secret history. Part 1, Mind control.

The patient as agent of health and health care / Mark D. Sullivan.

Practical autonomy and bioethics / James Stacey Taylor.

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