Titel: International Summer Course in Bioethics: "Medicalization of Sexuality"
Termin:
10.7.2017
Veranstaltungsort:
Ateneo Pontificio Regina Apostolorum
Via Aldobrandeschi, 190
00163 Rome
Italy
Weitere Informationen:
http://www.upra.org/convegno/medicalization-of-sexuality/
Medicine and medical interventions are becoming increasingly prevalent in our society. This progressive presence has led to extending the concept of health to a “medicalization of life,” where everything—including expectations—is aimed at pursuit of health. It has become a value which legitimizes any types of intervention, be they medical, surgical or in terms of social health policy.
Peter Conrad describes the phenomenon of medicalization as the tendency of posing any problem in medical terms, using a medical language to describe it, and adopting a medical framework for understanding or using a medical intervention to treat it.
Another typical phenomenon of our times is the progressive presence and pervasiveness of sexuality. Some speak of “sexualization” of our culture and our daily lives. Medicalization and sexualization meet to generate a growing but little studied phenomenon: the “Medicalization of Sexuality.”
On the one hand, there is a widespread distortion regarding the human meaning of sexuality, with certain trivialization and manipulation, which leads to its medicalization. On the other hand, the general phenomenon of medicalization contributes to further exploitation and trivialization of sexuality.
The course offers an interdisciplinary study on the phenomenon of medicalization of sexuality to help understand its causes and consequences. Thus, it hopes to offer valid instruments for a correct management of the social problem, both for one’s personal life and for general education, especially for the younger generation.
In view of the objectives, we will first examine the phenomenon of medicalization in general followed by the specific case of medicalization of sexuality. At the same time, the human reality of sexuality, with its meanings and implications, will be studied in-depth. We will analyze in detail the various applications in medicine as part of sexuality and fertility—those that can truly be considered “medical” and those we might call “medicalized.”
Kontakt:
Secretariat of the School of Bioethics
Ateneo Pontificio Regina Apostolorum
Via Aldobrandeschi, 190
00163 Rome
Italy
Tel.:
+39 06 91 68 91
gennaro.casa@upra.org
https://www.upra.org/offerta-formativa/facolta/bioetica/
Veranstalter: School of Bioethics of the Pontifical Ateneo Regina Apostolorum
Wissenschaftliche Leitung: Prof. Gonzalo Miranda, LC