NYU D&T Session #7: Medical Tech 😷 Tuskegee Study

Announcements: Class

Please remind me to press “RECORD” if needed. Thanks in advance.
Tandon’s IT Helpdesk now has loaner laptops available for students.
- 6 MetroTech Center, Rogers Hall, Room 337
- Phone: 646.997.3368, Email: soehelpdesk@nyu.edu
More Announcements at the bottom of the agenda
Extra Credit Opportunities are getting reorganized… soon.
Resource of the day

Student Blog Spot Talk (chosen at random)
Microaggressions: more in the Session 4 folder.
- Slides: Tools for Navigating Microaggressions. Links:
  - Anti-racism defined (ACLRC)
  - Types of Racism (Smithsonian NMAAHC)
- Share back: Jamboard Wrap-up
  - Speak Your Truth, Check Your Privilege
  - Intent v. Impact slides
Medical Tech
- Overview slides
- Discussion of Medical Apartheid, Chapter 7
- Democracy Now: COVID vaccine trials
Coming Up in D&T: Workplace Tech Discussion: Big Blue Button and Jitsi

Due Tuesday 9/29:
- Phase 1, Blog Post #7:
  - Reflect on Chapter 7 of Medical Apartheid (on the Tuskegee Syphilis Study). What was surprising? What technologies and diversity issues were raised?
  - Discuss a piece of fictional pop culture media that you think propagates (or analyzes) the biases that derived from historical medical discrimination. (Hint: Medical dramas, legal dramas, and superhero stories can be a good place to start.) I will ask you to add it to a spreadsheet next week, and we will screen these clips throughout the semester.
- Required Reading: Read or listen to Chapter 8 of Medical Apartheid by medical ethicist Harriet Washington. This chapter takes a deep dive into issues of reproductive control and race.
  - Option 1: Read through Bobst or Course Reserves
  - Option 2: Listen to Chapter 8.1 (chapter starts @ 35:44) and 8.2 (ends around 40 minutes)

Events:
- 9/26: March for Black Women (Online, Donations Welcome)
- 9/24: Colombia in Flux: The Challenges of Peacebuilding in the Midst of Violence and Insecurity by NYU Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Write a post about any of the following:
- Five Years of Tech Diversity Reports—and Little Progress (WIRED)
- Taking a Tandon Makerspace training. The new training protocol is more complex during the pandemic, so I’d be interested to know about your experience.
- Take a deeper dive into the folder of Microaggressions materials.
- Anti-racism defined (Alberta Civil Liberties Research Center)
- Types of Racism (Smithsonian NMAAHC)
- Any events above.