This project takes policies, guidance and healthcare practices about Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) as its focus. It builds on previous research considering the ascendence of claims about the salience of the \u2018precautionary principle\u2019 for providing advice to women about alcohol and pregnancy.<\/p>\n
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This investigation considers the development and effects of what can be termed a \u2018post choice\u2019 context for maternity services, that has emerged as a result. In this context, the consumption of any alcohol at all, at any level, both before and during pregnancy, is assumed to be harmful, and the notion that women have a choice to make regarding this aspect of pregnancy behaviour no longer pertains.<\/p>\n
The activities in the project comprise policy analysis and public dissemination of findings and arguments, to draw attention to the novelty of this form of healthcare policy and practice and raise questions about its rationale and implications.<\/p>\n
The work is a collaboration between CPCS\u2019 Professor Ellie Lee and staff in bpas\u2019 Centre for Reproductive Research and Communication<\/a>.<\/p>\n Lee, E. and Arkell, R. 2022. From self- to other- surveillance: a critical commentary on the English policy framework for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) [<\/strong>Full article: From self- to other- surveillance: a critical commentary on the English policy framework for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) (tandfonline.com)<\/a>]\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Arkell, R. and Lee. E. 2022. ‘Using meconium to establish prenatal alcohol exposure in the UK: ethical, legal and social considerations<\/a>‘<\/strong><\/p>\n Accompanying blog: Alcohol and pregnancy: meconium screening cannot be justified.<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Lee, E. Bristow, J. Arkell, R and Murphy. E 2021. \u2018Beyond \u2018the choice to drink\u2019 in a UK guideline on FASD: the precautionary principle, pregnancy surveillance, and the managed woman<\/a>\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n Arkell, R. Lee, E and Murphy. E. (2021) \u2018Embedding mistrust: An exploration of the emerging UK policy frameworks on alcohol and pregnancy<\/a>.\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n Rachel Arkell writing in the Huffington Post<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n \u2018Single drink in pregnancy will be noted on baby\u2019s file<\/a>\u2019, in The Times<\/em><\/p>\nPublications from the project<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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