Barrett

Barrett, The Honors College at Arizona State University proudly showcases the work of undergraduate honors students by sharing this collection exclusively with the ASU community.

Barrett accepts high performing, academically engaged undergraduate students and works with them in collaboration with all of the other academic units at Arizona State University. All Barrett students complete a thesis or creative project which is an opportunity to explore an intellectual interest and produce an original piece of scholarly research. The thesis or creative project is supervised and defended in front of a faculty committee. Students are able to engage with professors who are nationally recognized in their fields and committed to working with honors students. Completing a Barrett thesis or creative project is an opportunity for undergraduate honors students to contribute to the ASU academic community in a meaningful way.

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Personalized Medicine and the Concept of Empowerment

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With advances in biotechnology, personalized medicine has become an ever-expanding field. Even with so much growth, the critics equally match the proponents of personalized medicine. The source of their disagreement is rooted in the concept of empowerment. This analysis utilizes the personal genomics company 23andMe and their relationship with the…

With advances in biotechnology, personalized medicine has become an ever-expanding field. Even with so much growth, the critics equally match the proponents of personalized medicine. The source of their disagreement is rooted in the concept of empowerment. This analysis utilizes the personal genomics company 23andMe and their relationship with the Federal Food and Drug Administration to illustrate varying views of empowerment. Specifically, the case study focuses on the ability to provide direct-to-consumer health reports to patients independent of physicians. In doing this, larger issues of what is at stake in personalized medicine are uncovered. These include but are not limited to: who determines what individuals get empowered and what information is determined good versus bad.
ContributorsSilverman, Adam Mattern (Author) / Brian, Jennifer (Thesis director) / Hurlbut, Ben (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / School of Life Sciences (Contributor) / Department of Psychology (Contributor)
Created2015-05
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In Defense of Uncertainty: Challenging the “Regret Narrative” of Gender Transition

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Mainstream discussions of trans issues often center around the invocation of transition regret to make overarching claims about its ethicality. In understanding this pervasive specter of regret as an expression of broad uncertainty, I explore the complex history of enduring gender concepts, current best-practices in trans medicine, and detransition narratives.…

Mainstream discussions of trans issues often center around the invocation of transition regret to make overarching claims about its ethicality. In understanding this pervasive specter of regret as an expression of broad uncertainty, I explore the complex history of enduring gender concepts, current best-practices in trans medicine, and detransition narratives. I argue that the uncertainties therein are inherent and explore what it would mean to embrace uncertainty in trans medicine.
ContributorsMills, Raegan (Author) / Brian, Jennifer (Thesis director) / Hurlbut, Ben (Committee member) / Dietz, Liz (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / Watts College of Public Service & Community Solut (Contributor) / School of Life Sciences (Contributor)
Created2022-05