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Department of Sociology |
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I am pursuing three lines of research. (i) In recent times global, transnational, and postcolonial scapes of software and biotechnology development have been increasingly studied. Medical technology development and deployment has somehow remained marginal in such analyses despite the fact that in the last 30 years medical technologies have reordered the structure of medical research and healthcare all over the world. I am conducting a three-nation (US, India, and UK) study of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) in order to put into broad relief transnational and postcolonial aspects of medical technology research, development, and clinical deployment. In particular, I am analyzing the role of transnational flows and the impact of their control and regulation on medical technology development and clinical deployment. (ii) Emergence of computer-assisted medical imaging technologies such as MRI has transformed medical visualization and diagnosis. I have analyzed how the medical gaze produced by MRI operates in radiological laboratories. I am further investigating how the medical gaze has changed with the emergence of computer-assisted medical technologies. I am also analyzing transnational networks of radiological diagnostic procedures (commonly and often pejoratively referred to as outsourcing). (iii) I am also involved in another project with Srirupa Prasad (University of Missouri) to study issues of medical privacy and medical data digitization in the context of medical transcription outsourcing to India. Through our project we are attempting to show that not only there are different institutional and power dynamics in these transnational practices of medicine, but also that these processes assign different kinds of identities and rights to people across as well as within different nation-states. “The (Amorphous)
Anatomy of an Invention: The Case of Magnetic Resonance
Courses Taught Graduate Seminar in Science, Technology, and Society (Soc 8435) Seminar in Sociology Theory I (Soc 9187) |
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312 Middlebush Hall |
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