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，部分原因是受影响的个人创新地使用互联网技术。本研究项目通过一个案例研究来调查这一现象--女性对故障的女性医用植入物Esure的反应。它考察了人们对与医疗技术相关的潜在危害的日益加剧的焦虑。它还研究了受影响的人如何将这些伤害与背景联系起来，以及代理人如何应对挑战公司的伤害。该项目使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，它提供了一种对女性遭受伤害的经历的探索，以及随后通过Facebook在线动员来挑战她们遇到的医疗技术话语的经历。叙事分析还补充了调查数据和一个专注于Esure的Facebook小组的传记描述。主要目标有两个：第一，帮助研究医疗技术与健康和福祉的关系，特别是改变人们对风险和伤害的看法；第二，在日益增长的数字社会中，帮助研究互联网技术如何以及以什么效果用于与健康相关的行动。总体目标是在技术时代改善卫生服务。

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.