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Bunun石板石屋

Transitional Bunun slate stone house, it is indoor construction and discrip Bunun house setting and culture.

Fieldnote Feb 21 2023 - 10:55pm

First field note from HSJ

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tamar.rogoszinski

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“Quantification of the Increase in Thyroid Cancer Prevalence in Fukushima after the Nuclear Disaster in 2011—a Potential Overdiagnosis?”

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How was the study funded?

This work was supported by Grants-in-aid for the Cancer Control Policy from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan.

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tamar.rogoszinski

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The Narrative Representation of illness

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What three points, details or references from the text did you follow up on to advance your understanding of the complexities of emergency response?

Seizues - since most of the stories are about patient's suffering from epilepsy.
I looked at healthcare in Turkey, since he discusses people from there.
I looked at where the locations he mentioned in Turkey are located

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tamar.rogoszinski

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Structural Violence and Clinical Medicine

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What were the methods, tools and/or data used to produce the claims or arguments made in the article or report?

Methods used by Farmer, et al include collecting data from the study done in Baltimor in the 1990's. They analyzed the statistics and observations found as main points of their argument. The model used in Haiti and the results from other methods implemented by physicians in those areas are also used as arguments to strengthen the article.

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tamar.rogoszinski

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National Transgender Discrimination Survey Report on health and health care

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What implications does the report have for technical professionals?

This report addresses the issues of bias and discrimination, which is important for technical professionals to know so that they can avoid making these errors in judgement and provide proper standard of care to everyone. This is important because 19% of the respondents were refused treatment at one point, which is absolutely terrible.

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tamar.rogoszinski

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The Problem of Securing Health

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Who are the authors, where do they work, and what are their areas of expertise? How is the author professionally situated in respect to emergency response? Note any other publications/research foci that are of relevance to the DSTS Network.

The authors of this article are Andrew Lakoff and Stephen Collier. Both are anthropologists. Andrew works at USC and Stephen is the Director of Philosophy at The New School. They have both written many articles, several of which were written together.