The aim of this module is to provide students with historical context and an up to date working knowledge of the academic publishing sector, including current...

Academic and Journals Publishing (INST0051)

The aim of this module is to provide students with historical context and an up to date working knowledge of the academic publishing sector, including current developments. The opportunities for publishers within this area are varied and exciting, providing exposure to cutting-edge ideas and researchers with an international outlook and global importance. Students will be introduced to the core concepts surrounding scholarly communication and dissemination, key stakeholders and operational and strategic requirements of an academic publisher. Academic publishing, and its supporting services, represents by far the largest and most important area of publishing in terms of revenues and employment. Knowledge sharing continues to expand as research centres in previously closed marketplaces (such as in India, East-Asia and more recently South-America) enter the global market. Books and journals remain the most common forms in which research is disseminated but technological developments are advancing (specifically in the areas of dissemination, metadata and analytics) and where varied types of publisher draw skills, inspiration and business models. It is an area of publishing uniquely drawn into institutional, governmental and international policy-making.

PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS AND SCREENING|GENETIC TESTING

Prenatal Diagnosis and Screening provides an introduction to the concept of prenatal screening and diagnosis of conditions likely to affect the fetus. All...

Prenatal Diagnosis and Screening (IFWH0007)

Disparities in health across geographical space and social groups are well documented. Yet  how and why these arise, and what can and should be done in...

Health, Difference and Inequality (HPSC0156)

Disparities in health across geographical space and social groups are well documented. Yet  how and why these arise, and what can and should be done in response remain challenging and controversial questions. In this module, we will explore how science and technology can reveal and resist, or instead be complicit with – by obscuring, legitimating and enabling – the production of embodied inequalities. We will interrogate biomedical and social ‘ways of knowing’ patterns of risk, sickness and longevity as linked to, or as isolated from, inequalities in access to power, resources, privilege, rights, recognition and wealth. Using tools from science and technology studies as well as from critical race and queer theory, social epidemiology and medical anthropology, we will critically examine how categories such as ‘biology,’ ‘the environment,’ ‘culture,’ ‘the economy’ or ‘society’ have been used to investigate and explain differences in health. We will study examples of how biomedical research, technologies, practices and institutions have both exacerbated and depended on inequality. We will also learn about critical and activist responses. Topics covered might include controversies over the genetic basis of race; environmental (in)justice; medical discrimination and exploitation; feminist, queer and Black health activism; concepts of structural violence, syndemics and local biologies; and critiques of the coloniality of global health.