Course session 12 by Kristina https://padlet.com/kristinagrunenb/5q8xoq3ah3x859zr Which new knowledge may be produced by looking at how technologies and/or people travel for medical purposes? Why is this a relevant focus of anthropological attention? How could we approach this topic analytically? - give examples from the texts. Work in groups, choose a presenter to wrap up and present your work in padlet and in the plenum discussion. You have 20 mins. en-us 2020-04-28 11:01:07 UTC 2020-04-28 14:53:30 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f643.png Group 4 https://padlet.com/kristinagrunenb/5q8xoq3ah3x859zr/wish/536532205 1) Rogvi text - 248. Knowledge about risks and failures of global health technology. Knowledge about different cultures and their way of percieving i.e technology, quality, medicine. Travelling technology also implies a knowledge travel. Looking at travelling technology we also become aware of how the dichotomy between 'the west and the rest'. In the west medicine and technology is seen as something good -> that might not be the case everywhere. 
2) Looking at travelling technologies with anthropological glasses it becomes vlear

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- How the context matters: "as technologies travel between contexts, the comparisons between these contexts may play a role in the way the technology is constitute" (p. 253).  
- Local/global discussions 
- Global asymmetries (powerrelations)
- Analytical perspective: Friction (Tsing)


Song text
- Biotech pilgrimage 
- Medical tourism 
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Rogvi:
  • How context matters 
  • Reveals structural conditions in global health care systems 
  • How purpose change thoughout travel 
  • How technology creates or stress specific needs
     
Song: 
  • Rógvi: Biosociality - how technology creates a new community 
  • Highlights global ethical challenges and disagreements 
 
2)
  • Because its our speciality - looking at power relations, user insights, ethical questions 
  • Context specific 
  • The outside perspective - The anthropologist seeing themes and relations that doctors and patients themselves might not see
3)
- The story of Tim (using the pilgrimage as a analytical concept)
- Focus on travel instead of transfer (the act of travel change and is being changed)
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1) :
Rógvi:
Moving a technology from one geographical (and cultural) setting to another does not only involve the movement of the technology itself but also of implicit imaginaries, knowledges, political hierarchies and cultural norms.
Song: 

2) 
Challenging the idea of technologies as mere instruments. And unfolding the complexities of innovation and implementation of professional knowledge and technological structures


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