Consumerism & Medicine: A Cultural Form to Ask and to Question

Mission Statement: Discoveries of the human body are being published in newspapers, journals, and in the global media constantly. These new discoveries of the body occur alongside with and indeed coincide with the technologies that help maintain and enhance our bodies. The United States is a consumerist culture that embraces and in reality assumes that every technological advance is beneficial and good for society and as a result is often blind to the effect that consumerism has on technology and on our definition of the human body and its happiness. This website is intended neither to congratulate nor shun such technological advances and changing definitions what it means to fulfill human happiness. Rather, it is an opportunity for us to step back and question the role medicine and consumerism together play in our lives, and actively participate in the formation of the new interwined generation of medicine and consumer culture with diverse and well-versed ideas.

Click here to give your opinion on some tough ethical questions!

Click here to see a few popular texts that discuss the human body, genetics, technology, and/or the role of capitalism. Get links to websites to learn about interesting groups that have formed online as a result of such topics.

Click here to contact us. This website was created by students enrolled in Biological Determinism and Human Freedom.