Technologies and mediation in Cambodian biomedicine

This talk by Jenna Grant is based on ongoing ethnographic and archival research in Cambodia and France, 2009 - 2014.

In her research on biomedical imaging, Cambodians relate to technologies like contemporary social theorists do: technologies are not autonomous, they shape and are shaped by economic and social life, and understandings of the body and disease. In this talk, Dr Grant will focus on some of these relations in regards to ultrasound imaging, a relatively safe and easy to use technology that has become an expected part of medical care in Phnom Penh. She will describe how patients and doctors situate ultrasound technologies within health infrastructures, ethical relations, and multiple entities that affect health and disease. Rather than a focus on how technology mediates something else (bodies, knowledge), these findings contribute to our understanding of how technology itself is mediated in use.

Jenna Grant is an affiliated fellow at IIAS.

Registration is required
Lunch is provided by IIAS. Please register for this lunch lecture using the form below.

About IIAS Lunch Lectures

Every month, one of the IIAS researchers will present his or her work-in-progress in an informal setting to colleagues and other interested attendees. IIAS organises these lunch lectures to give the research community the opportunity to freely discuss ongoing research and exchange thoughts and ideas.