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SUMMARY:How medical data infrastructures materialize oppression - Marion B
 oulicault (Trinity Hall\, Cambridge)
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CONTACT:Jacob Stegenga
DESCRIPTION:It's well-known that medical practices can encode and perpetua
 te oppressive ideologies. Drawing on in-depth analyses of medical devices 
 such as the spirometer (Braun 2014) and pulse oximeter (Moran-Thomas 2020)
 \, recent scholars have argued that ideologies are perpetuated not only by
  practices\, but are also materially embedded in instruments and devices. 
 In other words\, medical devices 'materialize oppression' (Liao and Carbon
 ell 2022).\n\nIn this talk\, I pose the following question: _how_ exactly 
 do medical devices materialize oppression? That is\, what are the specific
  mechanisms by which oppression becomes materialized? I offer a preliminar
 y\, non-exhaustive taxonomy of materialization mechanisms. And I do so by 
 focusing on new examples and case studies that illustrate these mechanisms
  at work within medical data infrastructures rather than devices and instr
 uments. I argue that a clearer view of how these mechanisms operate sugges
 ts possibilities for building medical technologies that liberate rather th
 an oppress.\n\nReferences:\n\n* Braun\, Lundy. 2014. _Breathing Race into 
 the Machine: The Surprising Career of the Spirometer from Plantation to Ge
 netics._ 1st edition. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.\n* Liao\
 , Shen-yi\, and Vanessa Carbonell. 2022. "'Materialized Oppression in Medi
 cal Tools and Technologies.'":https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2022.204454
 3 _The American Journal of Bioethics_\, March\, 1–15.\n* Moran-Thomas\, 
 A. 2020. "'How a popular medical device encodes racial bias.'":https://bos
 tonreview.net/science-nature-race/amy-moranthomas-how-popular-medical-devi
 ce-encodes-racial-bias _Boston Review_\, August 5\, 2020.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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