Technology and Misinformation

Question 1

Biological citizenship

Answer 1

• Sense of belonging within a group of individuals w/ a shared biological trait, regardless of geographical location
• Engage in biomed activism (e.g. HIV-positive individuals who advocate for drugs for their condition)

Question 2

Biomedicaliztation

Answer 2

When medicine focuses on ameliorating health risks and optimizing wellbeing

Question 3

Clinical gaze

Answer 3

Focuses on physical aspects of the body, such as limbs, organs and circulatory system

Question 4

Medical gaze

Answer 4

• Describes philosophy of health and illness that focuses on objective physical symptoms instead of patients’ subjective experience
• Created by Michel Foucault
• E.g. creation of the stethoscope

Question 5

Medical technology

Answer 5

Influence what we believe is normal and what is pathological, what constitutes as a healthy an unhealthy body, and how body might be enhanced and optimized

Question 6

Medical-industrial complex

Answer 6

Idea that industry can use technology to gain undue influence in medicine (e.g. pharmaceuticals and gene therapies)

Question 7

Molecular gaze

Answer 7

Observing health at a microscopic, molecular level

Question 8

Social essentialism

Answer 8

• Sociological perspective stating characteristics of an object are determined by social perception and society as a whole
• Humans determine moral value of tech according to how we use it

Question 9

Surveillance gaze

Answer 9

Observing entire population medically to dictate what constitutes normal health and categorizing individuals accordingly

Question 10

Technogovernance

Answer 10

Notion that tech shapes the entirety of a patient-agent relationship

Question 11

Technological determinism

Answer 11

• Sociological perspective
• Views tech as a dominant, independent, uncontrollable force in society, w/ its own free will and logic

Question 12

Technology

Answer 12

Material artifacts used to improve everyday lives/world around us

Question 13

Technology-in-practice

Answer 13

• Sociological perspective
• ARgues that tech’s moral value comes from its content
• E.g. Health care is only one aspect of a broader network in health care system and tech’s value comes in the value of its position in this framework

Question 14

Technomedicine

Answer 14

Practice of medicine that’s heavily dependent on technological devices and advancements

Question 15

Administrative data

Answer 15

Data generated at every encounter w/ health care system

Question 16

Claims data

Answer 16

Diagnoses, procedures or treatments, and length of visit recorded for insurance companies to process claims

Question 17

Trial data

Answer 17

Data from/developed by clinical research

Question 18

Patient/disease registry

Answer 18

Collect uniform data to evaluate specified outcomes for a population defined by a particular disease, condition/exposure