Collective Intelligence Flashcards
Facilities open to drug users where they can inject IV drugs under the supervision of health care professionals
injections sites
includes assisted death, ending suffering, ending life, and having a choice about one’s own death
euthanasia
Passive euthanasia
involves the options of disconnecting or not connecting patients to life prolonging machinery and allowing them to die naturally
involves a deliberate act that terminates or shortens the life of terminally ill patients who would otherwise live longer
active euthanasia
suicide through the help of professional medical member
physician assisted suicide
What is CRISPR
CRISPR technology is a simple yet powerful tool for editing genomes. It allows researchers to easily alter DNA sequences and modify gene function.
Mass media debate on CRISPR
curing disease vs. designer babies
scientist debate on CRISPR
call for specific regulation vs. pose a general ban on research
bioethics debate on CRISPR
desirability and feasibility of gremlin editing
pharmaceutical companies debate on CRISPR
as a personalized medicine
an illness that is characterized by irregular eating habits and severe distress or concern about body weight or shape
eating disorder
a person who is focused specifically on muscle mass or body size
muscle dysmorphia
muscle dysmorphia is a subtype of
body dysmorphic disorder
meat consumption is not commonly addressed as an issue by…
NGO’s
a chronic brain disorder that affects about one percent of the population, where delusions, hallucinations, trouble with thinking and concentration, and lack of motivation
Schizophrenia
Controversies of schizophrenia
- Lack of recognition of the illness as a spectrum
- Stereotypical framing of schizophrenia supports discourse of some mental illnesses as ‘better or worse’
- Negative affects ability to treat those with both mild and severe psychotic disorders, an even those with mood disorders
nutrient rich foods that are considered more beneficial than normal foods
superfoods
Superfoods are often described as having a
specific super quality such as being highly anti-oxidant or even targeted to curing or preventing a condition or disease
3 aspects of neoliberalism in the legitimacy of superfoods
- Favours free market capitalism
- The superfood ideal constructs products as progressive, but it relies on neoliberal business practices
- contradictory adoption of the “alternative food networks” movement
Harm reduction includes
Policies, programs and practices that aim to reduce the harms associated with drugs in people that are not willing or unable to stop
Harm reduction focuses on
reaching harm rather than preventing drug use itself
Harm reducing in injection sites accepts what notion?
that some people are unable to stop using drugs
What was Bill C-2
an act to amend the controlled drugs and substances act
What does B C-2 allow
neighbourhoods can have a say in whether or not an injection site will open up or continue to stay open
One of the world’s oldest known drugs, used since before the common era for many purposes
opioids
What was marketed to the public in the 19th century to help with addiction to opioids?
morphine
The US Harrison Narcotics Tax Act of 1914 enabled
criminalization of non-prescription use of opioids
Between 1991 and 2013, opioid prescription rose from 76 million to
207 million
how many Americans struggle with an opioid addiction?
2.1 million
the prevalence of obesity has been linked to
lower socioeconomic status
applying public policy to control obesogenic foods can improve the health of individuals who purchase them because
they have no better options due to monetary issues
The constant stigmatization of obese people can reduce
economic advancement and keep these people in povertu
cost of obesity in Canada
up to $7 billion
the oldest record of medicinal marijuana comes from
Chinese texts, 5000 years ago
What drug is mentioned in the hindu sacred text, Atharvaveda?
Cannabis
In what year did India start trading MJ with the British?
1856
When was MJ first banned in Canada
1923
Regulated MJ was legalized in what year
2001
4 aspects of the compass of shame in relation to plastic surgery
- Withdrawal
- Attack Self
- Attack Others
- Avoidance
3 stakeholders against birth control
- Pharma
- Women’s rights groups
- Doctors
Stakeholder against birth control
certain religious groups
3 strategies of those for birth control
- Data focussed
- Lifestyle drug
- Health benefits
3 strategies of those against birth control
- Greater focus on individual narratives
- Common side effects and alternative methods
- freedom of religion
Each year, how many Americans sustain milk traumatic brain injuries with no loss of consciousness with an equal number sustaining injuries sufficient to impair consciousness?
1.5 million
Frames for euthanasia
- Scientific Uncertainty
What does CRISPR stand for
Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats
