Facebook Feminism to contest harm: A study to understand a changing landscape of healthcare in the technological era

Facebook 女权主义对抗伤害：一项了解技术时代医疗保健格局变化的研究

• 批准号: 2279899
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Queen's University Belfast
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2279899
• 关键词: Facebook; Feminism; contest; harm; study

The potential harms of medical implants have become the focus of increasing public concern in recent years, in part through innovative use of internet technology by affected individuals. This research project investigates the phenomenon through a case-study of women's responses to the malfunctioning female medical implant Essure. It examines intensified anxieties about potential harms associated with medical technologies. It also examines how these harms are contextualised by those affected and how agents respond in challenging corporate harms. The project uses a mixed methods approach to the women's narratives, situating this within a feminist standpoint methodology. In this way, it provides an exploration of the women's experiences of harm and subsequent online mobilisation through Facebook to challenge the medical-technology discourses they encounter. The narrative analysis is supplemented with survey data and a biographic account of an Essure-focused Facebook group. The key objectives are two-fold: first, to contribute to the study of medical technologies' relationship to health and wellbeing, and in particular to shifting perceptions of risk and harm; and second, to contribute to the study, within a growing digital society, of how and with what effects internet technology is used for health-related activism. The overall aim is to improve health provision in the technological era.

近年来，医疗植入物的潜在危害已成为公众日益关注的焦点，部分原因是受影响的个人创新使用互联网技术。本研究项目通过女性对女性医疗植入物Essure发生故障的反应的案例研究来调查这一现象。它研究了对与医疗技术相关的潜在危害的日益加剧的焦虑。它还研究了这些危害是如何被受影响的人所理解的，以及代理商如何应对挑战企业危害。该项目对妇女的叙述采用了混合方法，将其置于女权主义观点方法的范围内。通过这种方式，它提供了一个探索的妇女的伤害和随后通过Facebook在线动员的经验，以挑战他们遇到的医疗技术话语。叙述性分析补充了调查数据和一个以Essure为中心的Facebook小组的传记。其主要目标有两个方面：第一，促进研究医疗技术与健康和福祉的关系，特别是改变对风险和伤害的看法;第二，在不断发展的数字社会中，促进研究互联网技术如何以及如何影响与健康相关的活动。总体目标是在技术时代改善保健服务。