Medicine and Healthcare

The Privatization Of Health-Related Online Data And Its Methodological And Ethical Implications

Whereas the availability and relative ease with which health-related online information can be provided, collected, and re-used have led to important debates regarding the meaning of informed consent in scientific research, less attention has been paid thus far to platform owners’ claims to...Read more

Curating A Digital Platform, Researching The Knowledge Infrastructures Of Public Health

This paper will present a digital platform experiment at the intersection of STS and public health. Originally based on a project that focused on epidemiological risk scores as knowledge translation devices in public health, the platform addresses the formation of "life by the algorithm" more...Read more

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