Facebook Feminism to contest harm: A study to understand a changing landscape of healthcare 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，部分原因是受影响个人对互联网技术的创新使用。本研究计划透过个案研究，探讨女性对故障女性医疗植入物的反应。它调查了人们对医疗技术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那些受影响的人所理解的，以及代理人在挑战企业危害时如何作出反应。该项目采用了一种混合的方法来处理女性的叙事，将其置于女权主义立场的方法论中。通过这种方式，它提供了对妇女遭受伤害的经历的探索，并随后通过Facebook在线动员她们挑战她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专注于essure的Facebook小组的传记。主要目标有两个：第一，促进医疗技术与健康和福祉关系的研究，特别是改变对风险和伤害的看法；其次，在一个不断发展的数字社会中，为研究如何以及如何影响互联网技术用于与健康相关的活动做出贡献。总体目标是改善技术时代的保健服务。

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.