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Agenda
- Roll Call
- Recap: Salient Social Identities (SSI) and Technology
- Recap: Why are we starting the focus with medical technology?
- Lecture/Discussion Part 2: Medical research and ethical data collection. During this discussion, please add any unfamiliar or interesting keywords to the Keywords document.
- US government sites
- UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- The YouTube Example
- Child Safety on YouTube (August 2019)
- Upcoming Changes to kids content on YouTube (November 2019, enacted January 2020 according to Verge.com)
- AND: HHS.gov’s 1986 video on the Belmont Report, posted on YouTube.
- Additional Videos, from TED
- Notes:
- Using Google services for class
- Using news articles for class
- Discussion: Chapter 3 of Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology.
- Who is perpetuating the bias? What is their salient identity?
- Who is at the receiving end of the bias? What is their salient identity? Could they be considered a vulnerable population in the framework of the Belmont and/or Menlo Reports?
- How is the bias being perpetuated?
- Could the issue of bias have been avoided?
- Is bias an appropriate word for the situations discussed in the chapter?
- Medical Bias Screening
Assignments
- Due Tuesday 2/11:
- Catch up on assignments from Sessions #1, #2, and #3.
- Blog Post. You can keep this as a single post or split it into two:
- Review the multimedia interactive at the bottom of Brooklyn Historical Society’s web page for their exhibit Taking Care of Brooklyn. Please discuss: do you see any medical or research bias implied in any of these artifacts?
- What technology are you most grappling with right now? This could be a technology you’re learning or using for another class or project, a technology that you want to be learning, a ubiquitous technology you see lots of people using, or something else. Explain the technology in as much detail as possible, and discuss the way you are grappling with it.
Extra Credit
- Watch/listen the two TED videos (see links above), OR watch/listen to the HHS.gov video on the Belmont Report. Write a blog post discussing the biases, injustices, and potential pitfalls covered in the video(s) you chose.
- Write a blog post that reflects on this paragraph from Chapter 3 of Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology, page 84:
“American medicine developed under the expansive influence of European scientific racism. As a consequence, early gynecologists demonstrated their medical knowledge through their treatment of and writings about enslaved women as gynecological patients who purportedly felt little or no pain as they underwent invasive surgical procedures. Antebellum-era doctors continued the American tradition of reinforcing prevailing racial stereotypes about “black” women through their writings. These men recognized the importance of medical journals, especially as the field became more legitimized.”