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Chair/Presidente: Dr. Elizabeth MacNamara Introduces Dr. Grazia De Michele May20 2021 TITLE: “Prevention Doesn’t Come in a Pill”: North American Breast Cancer Activists’ Struggle Against Chemoprevention. In 1998, the FDA approved the use of tamoxifen for women considered at high risk of developing breast cancer ushering in the era of chemoprevention of the disease. A selective estrogen receptor...

Chair/Presidente: Dr. Liane Feldman introduces Dr. Richard M. Mizelle Jr TITLE: The Night Shift: Race and Technological Citizenship in Early Dialysis. In the late 1940s, Boston emerged as the first place in the United States where the new technology of dialysis was being used, leading to the emergence of nephrology as a specialized field in the 1960s. By the 1960s and 1970s kidney failure had e...

Chair/President: Dr. Elizabeth MacNamara introduces Dr. Sharra Vostral TITLE: Tampons, Technology, & Toxic Shock Syndrome: From Consumer to Patient to Informant. In 1980, the media alerted women to a new and frightening illness associated with menstrual periods and tampon use: toxic shock syndrome (TSS). The illness raised grave concerns because it struck healthy individuals, and 70% of women u...

Chair/Presidente: Dr. Kaberi Dasgupta Introduces Christopher Rudeen, PhD Candidate TITLE: "“Mental health is not Fashion”: Shirts, Stigma, and Consumerism.” In August 2019, The Washington Post ran a story on the cottage industry that has grown around the printing of “Rest in Peace” T-shirts commemorating lost loved ones. “RIP shirts have become a somber material extension of the nation’s social...

Dr. Kaberi Dasgupta introduces Dr. Antoine Lentacker TITLE: How to Report a Side Effect? On the Transformations of Web-based Pharmacovigilance. Drawing on interviews and oral histories, archival and online research, and on the methods of media studies, I compare how three different types of websites-the FDA’s official Adverse Reaction reporting system, open online patient forums (e.g. PatientsL...

Chair Dr. Jennifer Fishman Introduces Dr. Fabiola Creed TITLE: ‘Orange’ or a ‘Rich, Deep and Luxurious Brown’?: The Fake Tan and Sunbed Industry in a War against Skin Cancer in 1990s Britain. In a media-induced war against the sunbed industry and skin cancer, fake tan technologies were often supported by healthcare professionals, government officials, scientists, and NGOs (such as Cancer Resear...

Day 1 May19 202: Chair Dr. Jennifer Fishman Introduces Dr. Vivien Hamilton How has patient perception shaped the design and use of x-ray machines in dental practice in the decades prior to WWII? Using evidence from dentistry textbooks and journals, I track the adoption of x-rays in dentistry, asking how much of the growth in the use of this technology can be attributed to its perceived role in ...

Chair Dr. Samer Faraj introduces Dr. Lawrence Rosenberg Day1 May19 2021 The organization and delivery of healthcare continue to evolve both in terms of its sophistication and its complexity. A major driver of these changes is the digitalization of the systems and processes involved. Accordingly, traditional transactional models need to be reconsidered in order to fully understand what it means ...

Dr. Samer Faraj, Dr. Thomas Schlich & Dr. Rachel Elder, McGill University & JGH Montreal INTRODUCTION to the 5th Impact of Technological Change Workshop: Dr. Schlich opens the ITC5 Workshop. Dr. Faraj introduces the topic then Dr. Elder explains the agenda's section headings, the chairs & the speakers. TITRE : La technologie et le patient consommateur : comprendre le choix et les soins médicaux...

Dr Lawrence Rosenberg presentation 1. 'Disintermediation': There remains little doubt that we are living through one of the most profound disruptions in healthcare ever experienced. This tsunami of change, characterized by decentralization of care, care delivery and decision-making, is the result of two major driving forces- digitalization of everything and deciphering of the genome. Digitaliza...

7. "Diabetic Technologies: Choice, Adaptation, and Rejection.' Since the discovery of insulin in 1921, technologies that allow patients to measure, count, and quantify diabetes have expanded. From urinalysis kits to continuous blood glucose monitoring; from early syringe design to portable electronic food scales; and from daily insulin injections to pump infusion patient interaction with techno...

6. 'The Commercial Market in Non-Invasive Prenatal Screening and the Clinician as an Unstable Intermediary.' The movement in personalized medicine promises to revolutionize health care by using genetic materials to give patients earlier diagnoses, risk assessments and optimal treatments. These complex tests are marketed to consumers with little regulatory oversight, and clinicians have uneven e...

3. Doctors on the Borders: The Case of the Medieval Hospital. Recent research on western medieval hospitals shows that academic (Greco-Arabic) medicine exerted an unexpectedly strong influence on care. Yet the increased presence of medicine did not normally entail the increased visibility of physicians, even when university-trained doctors became more numerous in society at large. To the contra...

5. 'Medicalization, Agency, and History of At-Home Pregnancy Tests.' Modern pregnancy is at once an intensely personal and highly medicalized experience as seen by the now widespread use of at-home ovulation and pregnancy tests, medical technologies intended for use in the most intimate of spaces and moments, evidence of the ongoing medicalization of reproduction, the encroachment of medical au...

Yue Li, PhD - ITC4-2019 - Medicine Without Doctors?

Dr T Schlich & Dr L Rosenberg - ITC4-2019 - Conclusion: Medicine Without Doctors?

Olivia Weisser, PhD - ITC4-2019 - Medicine Without Doctors?

Dr T Schlich & Dr L Rosenberg - ITC4-2019 - Medicine Without Doctors? Introduction & Presentation

Dr. James Evans. Technologie en medicine 2018 Technology in Medicine - HGJ-JGH

Conclusion: Dr. Thomas Schlich. Technologie en médecine 2018 Technology in Medicine HGJ-JGH

Dr. Axel C. Huntelmann. Technologie en médecine 2018 Technology in Medicine HGJ-JGH

Dr. Samer Faraj. Technologie en medicine 2018 Technology in Medicine - JGH

Dr. Miguel Garcia Sancho Sanchez. Technologie en médecine 2018 Technology in Medicine HGJ-JGH

Dr. Jesse Olszynko-Gryn & Meg Crane: Technologie en médecine 2018 Technology in Medicine HGJ-JGH

Dr. Heiner Fangerau. Technologie en médecine 2018 Technology in Medicine HGJ-JGH

Dr. Lawrence Rosenberg. Technologie en médecine 2018 Technology in Medicine HGJ-JGH

Dr. David S. Jones - Jewish General Hospital - McGill University - ITCSP 2016

Dr. Jonathan Kimmelman - Jewish General Hospital - McGill University - ITCSP 2016

Dr. Christopher Crenner: Jewish General Hospital - McGill University - ITCSP 2016