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URL:https://breakingtheframe.org.uk/calendarofevents/mental-health-big-pha
 rma-and-the-new-eugenics-april-14th-2014/
SUMMARY:‘Mental health’\, big pharma and the new eugenics - April 14th 
 2014
DESCRIPTION:Modern medicine is often trumpeted as one of the greatest examp
 les of technological progress.  But technocratic medicine also has a ver
 y dark side.\n\n 	Side effects of drugs are in the top ten causes of prema
 ture deaths\n 	Continuing historic eugenic tendencies under the rubric of 
 reproductive choice\, pre-natal testing prevents the birth of thousands of
  disabled people\n 	The medicalisation of mental distress serves the finan
 cial interest of drug companies but often fails to address the real proble
 ms of highly vulnerable people.\n\nMeanwhile\, as the NHS suffers increasi
 ng privatisation\, the government wants to sell our electronic medical rec
 ords to the pharmaceutical industry. this event will explore how genomics 
 and other high-tec medical trends are detracting from public health approa
 ches and basic human-centered treatment.\nIntroductions from\;\n\n 	Michel
 ine Mason\, a writer and leading advocate of inclusive education will disc
 uss the rights of disabled people and the history of eugenics\n 	Redmond O
 ’Hanlon from the Critical Psychiatry Network will look at the problems o
 f drug-based psychiatry and how this serves the interests of the pharmaceu
 tical industry\n 	Fleur Fisher former head of Medical Ethics at the BMA wi
 ll speak about the campaign against government plans to allow drug compani
 es access to the NHS medical records database\n
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