This reading group is dedicated to new and old problems in philosophy of medicine. All are welcome.
Meetings take place on Tuesdays, 1–2pm, in Seminar Room 1.
Conveners: Tim Lewens, Stephen John, Jacob Stegenga, Anna Alexandrova
Lent Term 2020
21 January
- De Block, Andreas & Adriaens, Pieter. 2013. 'Pathologizing Sexual Deviance: A History' Journal of Sex Research 50(3-4): 276–298.
Presenter: TBC
28 January
- Kleinplatz, Peggy. 2018. 'History of the Treatment of Female Sexual Dysfunction(s)' Annual Review of Clinical Psychology 14: 29–54.
Presenter: TBC
4 February
- Bueter, Anke and Jukola, Saana. Forthcoming. 'Sex, Drugs, and How to Deal with Criticism' in Uncertainty in Pharmacology (Osimani and La Caze, Eds.)
Presenter: TBC
11 February
- Taylor, Chloë. 2015. 'Female Sexual Dysfunction, Feminist Sexology, and the Psychiatry of the Normal.' Feminist Studies, 41(2), 259–292.
Presenter: TBC
18 February
- Mamo, Laura and Epstein, Steven. 2014. 'The Pharmaceuticalization of Sexual Risk: Vaccine Development and the New Politics of Cancer Prevention' Social Science and Medicine 101: 155–165.
Presenter: TBC
25 February
- Stegenga, Jacob. 'The Medicalisation of Female Sexual Desire', draft chapter.
Presenter: Anna Alexandrova
3 March
- Lloyd, Elisabeth. 1993. 'Pre-Theoretical Assumptions in Evolutionary Explanations of Female Sexuality' Philosophical Studies 69: 139–153.
- Meynell, Letitia. 'Review of The Case of the Female Orgasm.' Hypatia 22(3): 218–222.
Presenter: Miriam Solomon
10 March
- Tuana, Nancy. 2004. 'Coming to Understand: Orgasm and the Epistemology of Ignorance' Hypatia 19(1): 194–232.
Presenter: TBC