PSYC 3110 Lecture 20: PSYC 3110 - Lecture 20
5 Apr 2018
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New treatments and diagnoses for illness new choices (not necessarily. Better") new forms and changes in social relationships (changes existing relationships and creates new ones: implications for individuals . Health behaviours and decision-making: implications for policy (selecting embryos, and technology, select for hair color, sex etc. would that be okay?) Ethics in setting of uncertainty (moral (what do we think as a society) and scientific (informs but cannot deter the answer to those questions) Studying advances in biotechnology (psychological, societal questions: as a social scientist requires focus on the subtleties of ethics and social science methods. Scientist expertise is not everything as they are not clinicians either. They are the ones who give us facts and truths. Experience of patients is a human activity. Anthropological" studies of laboratory scientists science itself. Also requires reasonable understanding of the science involved. Discrimination questions in terms of skin colour and sex, thus opens the door for this opportunity: direct to consumer testing.
