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SUMMARY:The doctor who wasn't there: technology\, history\, and the limits
  of telehealth - Jeremy Greene (Johns Hopkins University)
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CONTACT:Jacob Stegenga
DESCRIPTION:'The doctor who wasn't there' traces the long arc of enthusias
 m for – and skepticism of – electronic media in health and medicine. O
 ver the past century\, a series of new technologies promised to democratiz
 e access to healthcare. From the humble telephone to the connected smartph
 one\, from FM radio to wireless wearables\, from cable television to the '
 electronic brains' of networked mainframe computers: each new platform has
  promised a radical reformation of the healthcare landscape.\n\nWith equal
  attention to the history of technology\, the history of medicine\, and th
 e politics and economies of American healthcare\, physician and historian 
 Jeremy Greene explores the role that electronic media play\, for better an
 d for worse\, in the past\, present\, and future of our health. Today's te
 lehealth devices are far more sophisticated than the hook-and-ringer telep
 hones of the 1920s\, the radios that broadcast health data in the 1940s\, 
 the closed-circuit televisions that enabled telemedicine in the 1950s\, or
  the online systems that created electronic medical records in the 1960s. 
 But the ethical\, economic\, and logistical concerns they raise are prefig
 ured in the past\, as are the gaps between what was promised and what was 
 delivered. Each of these platforms also produced subtle transformations in
  health and healthcare that we have learned to forget\, displaced by promi
 ses of ever newer forms of communication that took their place. Illuminati
 ng the social and technical contexts in which electronic medicine has been
  conceived and put into practice\, Greene's history shows the urgent stake
 s\, then and now\, for those who would seek in new media the means to buil
 d a more equitable future for American healthcare.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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