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  • Medical sociology
  • Philosophy of technology
  • Cognitive science

Background:

  • Racism is embedded in medical institutions and practices.
  • The material artifacts of medicine, including devices, also encode societal biases.
  • Existing research often overlooks how medical devices can actively materialize oppression.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how medical devices materialize oppression beyond simple bias.
  • To provide a theoretical framework for understanding materialized oppression in medical artifacts.
  • To propose solutions for addressing oppressive medical devices.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of medical devices (pulse oximeters, spirometers) as case studies.
  • Application of political philosophy and cognitive science theories.
  • Examination of how devices reflect and perpetuate unjust power relations across race, gender, class, and ability.

Main Results:

  • Medical devices can embody and perpetuate systemic oppression.
  • Artifacts like pulse oximeters and spirometers demonstrate materialized oppression.
  • Oppressive medical devices create a moral aggregation problem requiring systemic solutions.

Conclusions:

  • Medical devices are not neutral tools but can actively materialize oppression.
  • Addressing materialized oppression requires disrupting the interconnected systems of attitudes, practices, and artifacts.
  • Redundantly layered, coordinated solutions are necessary to dismantle oppressive medical technologies.