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Healthcare and the 99 Percent
One of the lesser-noted dimensions of the Occupy movement is its health politics and the template the civil rights movement provided for those politics
Racial Categories in Medical Practice: How Useful Are They?
Is it good medical practice for physicians to "eyeball" a patient's race when assessing their medical status or even to ask them to identify their race
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Ten Simple Rules for Responsible Big Data Research
The use of big data research methods has grown tremendously over the past five years in both academia and industry. As the size and complexity of available datasets has grown, so too have the ethical questions raised by big data research. These questions become increasingly urgent as data and research agendas move well beyond those typical of the computational and natural sciences, to more directly address sensitive aspects of human behavior, interaction, and health. The tools of big data research are increasingly woven into our daily lives, including mining digital medical records for scientific and economic insights, mapping relationships via social media, capturing individualsâ speech and action via sensors, tracking movement across space, shaping police and security policy via âpredictive policing,â and much more
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Response to "The Legitimacy of Genetic Ancestry Tests"
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Cuerpos y pråcticas: una década de estudios ctg
Resumen En este trabajo presentamos algunas investigaciones realizadas en el ĂĄrea de estudios sociales de la ciencia bajo el enfoque denominado Ciencia, TecnologĂa y GĂ©nero (CTG). La intersecciĂłn de los estudios sociales de la ciencia con la teorĂa feminista y los estudios de gĂ©nero ha dado lugar a este campo de estudio interdisciplinar. En el Estado español, se han llevado a cabo mĂșltiples trabajos en esta lĂnea, de los que exponemos algunos de los realizados por nuestro grupo de investigaciĂłn al menos en los Ășltimos diez años. Se centran en estudios de caso, que implican diferentes tecnologĂas biomĂ©dicas, y en los que los cuerpos juegan un papel fundamental estableciendo alianzas, resistencias o cuestionando los marcos normativos en los que cuerpos y tecnologĂas se hayan inmersos
Not Just Fun and Games: The Social and Political Significance of âRecreationalâ Genetics
Racial categories in medicine: a failure of evidence-based practice?
Race and ethnicity are imprecise markers of the genotypic and sociocultural determinants of health, argue the authors
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