1st Edition
Anticipation and Medicine A Critical Analysis of the Science, Praxis and Perversion of Evidence Based Healthcare
Introduction
1. The care paradox
2. Science and politics
3. Science and politics - a case history: breast cancer screening
4. Language, harm and overdiagnosis- a case history: the real cancer paradox
5. Politics and consciousness
6. Subjectivity, care-labour and Lacan's structures of discourse
7. Subjectivities of care- a case history: alienating identities
8. The opportunity costs of neoliberal pragmatist anticipatory care- a case history: A molecular genetic 'signature' for cancer risk
9. Two impossibilities: burnout and depersonalisation of care-giving
10. Neoliberal pragmatism incites perversion: the capitalist discourse
11. The Oedipus complex and perverse care-provision: a case history
12. The biopolitics of anticipatory care: Spinoza and the prohibition of health
Conclusion
Biography
Owen Dempsey is a medical doctor specialising in the care of marginalised communities including asylum seekers, refugees, and the homeless. Most recently he has focussed on substance and alcohol addiction in his work. He is also undertaking research into the practice and effects of EBM. He uses a discursive psycho-social approach to critique the effects of anticipatory diagnostic technologies through the relationship between Evidence Based Healthcare and capitalism.
"Dempsey’s approach to the perils of evidence-based medicine is novel, and makes for an interesting read. The majority of the points he makes are valid, and are the same ones many others make, though they may start from a different place philosophically." - Mark K. Huntington, Family Medicine
