[Themaintainers] Medicine, Public Health and Pandemics

[Alexis De Greiff]

Dear colleagues,

I am planning a chapter for an edited volume on Science, Technology and Society and I am interested in disputing the idea of “innovation” as the only way to “flat the curve”.

One of the issues I would like to discuss about repairing and maintaining sanitary infrastructures like ventilatos. Mexico, for instance is planning to repair 1.657 ventilators.

Does anybody know of similar projects or other of the same sort, not necessarily directly concerned with the current pandemic?

Yours,

ADGA


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Alexis De Greiff A., PhD
Profesor Asociado/Investigador
Departamento de Sociología/Centro de Estudios Sociales <http://www.humanas.unal.edu.co/2017/unidades-academicas/departamentos/sociologia/>

Director
Centro de Pensamiento “Nicanor Restrepo Santamaría”  <http://pensamiento.unal.edu.co/cp-nicanor-restrepo/>
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Sede Bogotá

Books Review Editor
Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society <https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/ttap20>

Academia.edu:
https://unal.academia.edu/AlexisDeGreiffA <http://unal.academia.edu/AlexisDeGreiffA>

> El 27/05/2020, a las 10:32, Jessica Meyerson <jessica at educopia.org> escribió:
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> Dear Fellow Maintainers,
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> Please join us TODAY, Wednesday, May 27 @ 9amPT/10amMT/11amCT/12pm ET for a discussion about the “gig economy” and the ways that maintenance Gig workers (shoppers, drivers, etc) sustain daily life, and as such have been recognized as “essential workers.” This dependence on gig workers raises an important question: what steps do companies, governments, and individuals take to maintain gig workers--or, in other words, to ensure that this form of labor is sustainable? 
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> This discussion will feature two experts on gig economies in the United States and Europe: 
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> Niels van Doorn <https://www.uva.nl/profiel/d/o/n.a.j.m.vandoorn/n.a.j.m.vandoorn.html> is an Assistant Professor in New Media and Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam. He is also the Principal Investigator  of the Platform Labor <https://platformlabor.net/> research project (2018-2023), funded by the European Research Council. His research examines how digital platforms are transforming labor, social reproduction and urban governance in post-welfare societies.
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