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Morning theme:
Does the framing of circumcision as another 'prevention technology' mask a number of scientific and ethical questions about the widespread deployment of circumcision? Most crucially it seems to represent a return to large-scale, coercive public health programmes and a refusal to engage with modern ideas about the social determinants of health so important to this epidemic. Will circumcision increase the challenges of achieving a social consensus on the virtues of prevention?
To download a copy of Gary Dowsett's presentation click here
Afternoon theme:
What does sexual health mean and how might it best be realised? Is it about the absence of disease or a way of embracing notions of sexual freedom, empowerment and rights? These competing definitions of sexual health can lead to the call for abstinence and fidelity on the one hand or to calls for greater sexual awareness and empowerment. These ideas will be explored through the context of a framework for sexual health developed recently for the World Health Organisation.
To download a copy of of Peter Aggleton's presentation click here
About the presenters:
Gary Dowsett is the Deputy Director of the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, Victorian Health Promotion Foundation Senior Research Fellow, and an Associate Professor in Clinical Sociomedical Sciences at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, New York.
Peter Aggleton is the Head of the School of Education and Social Work and Professor in Education, Health and Social Care at the University of Sussex. He is also the Editor in Chief of the journal Culture, Health and Sexuality.
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