Are You Suffering?: Clinical Trials and Patient Selection
Prof. Joseph Dumit, Nate Greenslit
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Explores aspects of how clinical trial populations are sought out, and how the participants themselves come to experience themselves in these experimental settings. Clinical trial designers and managers are quite concerned about the "kinds of persons" that are appropriate for drug testing (ranging from concerns about so-called "placebo responders" to issues concerning the linkages between ethnicity, gender, race and epidemiology). This "Pharmaceuticals and Identity" symposium will investigate some of the ways in which assumptions about personhood and illness are built into clinical trials for pharmaceuticals, and how they are made meaningful by the participants themselves. This workshop is part of the Pharmaceuticals and Identity (Rx-ID) working group of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self.
Contact: Nate Greenslit, E51-070, x3-6979, npg@mit.edu
Part 1
Prof. Joseph Dumit, Nate Greenslit
Thu Jan 22, 12-05:00pm, E51-278
Part 2
Prof. Joseph Dumit, Nate Greenslit
Fri Jan 23, 11am-05:00pm, E51-278
Part 3
Prof. Joseph Dumit, Nate Greenslit
Sat Jan 24, 10am-02:00pm, E51-275
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History Anytime, Anywhere, and for Anyone
Rosalind Williams, Eric Heller
Thu Jan 15, 01:30-06:00pm, MIT Museum (N52-200)
No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
Single session event
Imagine being able to go anywhere in the US and access information about the history, geography, or science of the place where you're standing, while you're standing there! The National Heritage Database is a collaborative project based in the MIT Program in Science, Technology, and Society (STS), and includes the MIT Museum and faculty from Harvard. The goal of the Project is to increase people's knowledge of their surroundings by creating a nationwide outdoor museum, where a wide variety of historical information about a location can be accessed by anyone using GPS-enabled portable electronics. The IAP session is aimed at refining the Project's concept with the input of the MIT community.
Contact: Nick Buchanan, E51-070, x3-6979, nscb@mit.edu
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What's in a Map?
Prof. Leon Trilling, Prof. Wesley Harris, Dr. Michael Stiefel
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
This activity is co-sponsored by the Aero/Astro Department and the Program in Science, Technology, and Society.
Contact: Prof. Leon Trilling, E51-093, x3-7481, trilling@mit.edu
Prof. Leon Trilling, Prof. Wesley Harris, Dr. Michael Stiefel
Tue Jan 20, 02-05:00pm, 33-419
What is a Topographic Map?
Prof. Leon Trilling, Prof. Wesley Harris, Dr. Michael Stiefel
Maps have been used for centuries to help people locate themselves on this earth and to help travelers reach their destinations by providing a picture of the surface of the earth. The participants in this IAP Activity will examine how maps are made, what instruments and reference frames are needed, what distortions are inherent in them, and what symbolic languages are designed to describe selected features of the terrain.
Tue Jan 20, 02-05:00pm, 33-419
Prof. Leon Trilling, Prof. Wesley Harris, Dr. Michael Stiefel
Thu Jan 22, 02-05:00pm, 33-419
Can Social Systems Be Mapped Like Geographic Regions?
Prof. Leon Trilling, Prof. Wesley Harris, Dr. Michael Stiefel
Maps describe relationships -- e.g. between places. Can we design similar graphics to explain how social systems function and thus understand how we might achieve a social or personal objective; for example how to navigate our way through four years at MIT to get an education?
Thu Jan 22, 02-05:00pm, 33-419
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