Strategies for Landing an Oracle DBA Job as a Fresher
Week 8 slides
1. Are you at Risk?
Week 7 Tutorial
Technological Artifacts
IUD technologies
Anni Dugdale
Priscilla Song
Stephanie
Gabbie
Paul
Haikun
Sonja
Samantha
2. Anni Dugdale
SCOT: Social Contructivism of
Technology
Technological Determinism
“The political properties of
technological”!
!
3. Technoscience
• Truths!
• Scientific knowledge is also
subject to social context!
• Different Framing of
Technologies!
• Decentering of the subject
4. Transnational Bioethics
‘Beike’
• Priscilla Song, 2011!
• Song explores the world of
neurodegenerative
treatments and how it has
lead to the phenomena of
‘medical tourism’!
• Differing standards of ethics!
• Capitalization of human
needs
5. Technologies of care
Hype and Hope
The way these companies close these discussions are
implemented through marketing and repackaging of
the product i.e. through new packaging or reframing
of the problem.
Beike, is a company that is using brochures to report
on stem cell research. They capitalise of the hype of
stem cell therapies and the vulnerabilities of patients.
Brochures as a technology omit information to
reframe the issue for the benefit of companies.
Unethical because they do not give accurate
information.
7. Questions
1. Are technologies and scientific knowledge fixed or do they oscillate? What would ‘challenge’ the meanings
and fixity of these things?
2. Do people internalise and bring with them their own beliefs and attitudes when entering a new culture?
3. Does Asia have its own set of ‘bioethics’ which is significantly different from the dominant theories of ethics
coming from Western ethics?
4. What happens to the standards of ethics when marketing/money conflate it? Can ethics and scientific
validation be bought?
5. Is reframing a problem unethical?
6. These practices ultimately problematic the role of ethical regulation in governing transnational regimes of
bioscience. Do we need a trnsanational standard of bioscience and ethics? Or is it enough to reply on the
objective medical practices of other countries? What discrepancies do these gaps in the market create?
