The Sociology of Medical Screening: Past, Present and Future

Armstrong, Natalie; Eborall, Helen

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“…De plus, le dépistage organisé consiste, non pas à travailler sur les facteurs permettant d'éviter ou de faire reculer la survenue d'une maladie, mais bien à recruter des personnes qui n'ont pas de symptômes ni de facteurs de risque particuliers pour leur faire réaliser des examens médicaux. Comme cela a été bien montré il y a quelques années dans un numéro de Sociology of Health and Illness, le dépistage constitue un objet sociopolitique tout à fait particulier (Armstrong et Eborall, 2012). Dans le présent article, nous montrons que le DO est un lieu où se révèlent certaines tensions éthiques particulières, mais nous suggérons que ces tensions traversent, probablement, le champ de la santé publique dans son entier.…”

Section: Accompagner Le Dépistage Organisé Du Cancer Colorectalunclassified

Accompagner et prévenir. Tensions éthiques dans le dépistage du cancer colorectal

Lechopier¹,

Hamant²

2017

Sciences Sociales Et Santé

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Cet article présente les résultats d'une enquête concernant l'éthique de la prévention. Elle a été réalisée au sein d'une recherche interventionnelle en santé des populations, mobilisant des médiateurs (navigateurs) pour corriger les inégalités de participation au dépistage organisé du cancer colorectal dans 5 départements français. Quatre tensions éthiques émergent sur le terrain : à propos de l'incertitude du test, de l'organisation des campagnes, de l'intrusion dans la vie privée et de l'universalisme proportionné. Ces tensions sont décrites à partir d'une enquête ancrée dans une approche pragmatiste, attentive aux épreuves que vivent les acteurs de la prévention, intégrant dans un même mouvement l'investigation sur les faits et la réflexion sur les valeurs.

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Accompagner et prévenir. Tensions éthiques dans le dépistage du cancer colorectal

Lechopier¹,

Hamant²

2017

Sciences Sociales Et Santé

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“…In 1988, Australian state and federal governments created the Cervical Cancer Screening Evaluation Steering Committee, which recommended programs that eventually became the National Cervical Screening Program. 63 The screening program follows the classic pattern for a screening system: 'the purposeful application of tests to an asymptomatic population in order to classify people into those who are unlikely to have or develop a disease and those who are likely to have or develop a disease' 64 in a way that will be 56 Armstrong and Eborall (2012), p 5; Armstrong (1995), p 395. 57 Armstrong (1995), p 402. cost-effective or at least 'economically balanced' in relation to possible total medical care expenditure related to the risk identified, 65 to allow those individuals to reduce their risk of disease, undergo further diagnostic testing or be treated for their condition.…”

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Australian Pap Smear Registers and the Creation of Gendered Identities

Stagg-Taylor¹

2013

Griffith Law Review

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Governments in several Australian jurisdictions have enacted legislation that creates cervical cancer registers. Unlike other legislation relating to several other types of health register, cervical cancer register legislation sets up oversight, reminder and information-gathering regimes about all patients who undergo testing for cervical cancer. The government sets up reminder systems and information-gathering from which women must opt out rather than opting in to use the system. This article examines cervical cancer register legislation and compares and contrasts legislative regimes that address comparative health regimes. Using textual analysis and a feminist theoretical model, the article examines how women are treated differently from patient groups comprising mainly men or mixed-gender groups. It then analyses how the legislation creates and reinforces gender identities.

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“…Much like screening (Armstrong and Eborall ), preventive technologies appeal to policymakers, medical professionals and public health authorities, yet they are often received critically by target groups (Hobson‐West , Reich ). The vaccine against Human Papilloma Virus (HPV), which is sexually transmitted and widespread, is a case in point: First, in the early 2000s, medical researchers saw the development of a vaccine against some strains of the carcinogenic virus as a real breakthrough, heralding it as the ‘first vaccine against cancer’ (Gericke , cited in Paul 2016: 193).…”

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Putting public health infrastructures to the test: introducing HPV vaccination in Austria and the Netherlands

Bal

2017

Sociology Health & Illness

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This article presents two cases of policymaking concerning the vaccine against Human Papilloma Virus (HPV), which is sexually transmitted and carcinogenic. Our analysis focuses on its introduction in Austria and the Netherlands. In both contexts, we find prevention and screening to be at once complementary and competing public health logics and we draw on the concept of 'infrastructure' to understand their roles in shaping the reception of the vaccine. We reveal how the HPV vaccine had to be made 'good enough', much like the Pap smear (Casper and Clarke ), by means of diverse tinkering practices that transformed both the technology and the infrastructures in which they emerged. At the same time, it was important that the vaccine would not come to problematise Pap smear-based screening. The article points to the contextually contingent nature of policymaking around new medical technologies, and the skillful care with which public health infrastructures such as immunisation and screening programmes are handled and tinkered with.

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The Sociology of Medical Screening: Past, Present and Future

Cited by 20 publications

References 63 publications

Accompagner et prévenir. Tensions éthiques dans le dépistage du cancer colorectal

Accompagner et prévenir. Tensions éthiques dans le dépistage du cancer colorectal

Australian Pap Smear Registers and the Creation of Gendered Identities

Putting public health infrastructures to the test: introducing HPV vaccination in Austria and the Netherlands

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