Topic
Mathemes and Medicine
8 items.
29 Jul 2009
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Alternatives? From situated knowledges to standpoint epistemologyThe previous post explored, in detail, responses to science and technology in feminist and gender work in India. The idea was, more than anything else, to present an 'attitude' to technology, whether manifested in dams or obstetric …
20 Jul 2009
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Rewiring Bodies: Methodologies of Critique - Responses to technology in feminist and gender work in IndiaIn this post, part of her CIS-RAW 'Rewiring Bodies' project, Asha Achuthan records the arguments within feminism and gender work that critique the use of technology in the Indian context, and attempts to show continuities between these …
15 Apr 2009
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Postcolonial Hybridity and the ‘Terrors of Technology’ ArgumentIn the last couple of posts, Asha Achuthan has been building towards an understanding of how the anti-technology arguments in India have been posed, in the nationalist and Marxist positions. She goes on, in this sixth post documenting her …
27 Mar 2009
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The (Postcolonial) Marxist Shift in Response to TechnologyIn her previous post, Asha Achuthan discussed, through the Gandhi-Tagore debates, the responses to science and technology that did not follow the dominant Marxist-nationalist positions. Later Marxist-postcolonial approaches to science and …
25 Feb 2009
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Rewiring Bodies: Technology and the Nationalist Moment [2]This is the third in a series of posts on Asha Achuthan's Rewiring Bodies project. In this post, Asha looks at the Tagore-Gandhi debates on technology to throw some light on the question of whether there was a nationalist alternative to the …
17 Feb 2009
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Rewiring Bodies: Technology and the Nationalist Moment [1]This is the second post in a series by Asha Achuthan on her project, Rewiring Bodies. In this blog entry, Asha looks at the trajectory of responses to technology in India to understand the genesis of the assumption that the subjects of …
5 Nov 2008
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of doctors and maps - Snippet twoThis may seem like a careless swipe at the volumes of critique of technology. And yet ... I need to know ...
5 Nov 2008
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of doctors and maps - Snippet oneThe clinic is not what it was. It is highly technologized, flooded with information systems. But what of the relationships it traditionally supported, between patient and doctor?