[Themaintainers] Medicine, Public Health and Pandemics

[Dave Lukes]

Hi Alexis,
iFixit are crowdsourcing repair information for hospital equipment:
https://www.ifixit.com/News/36354/help-us-crowdsource-repair-information-for-hospital-equipment
to build up this:
https://www.ifixit.com/Device/Medical_Device

Everyone, please help If you can.

They also reference:
http://www.frankshospitalworkshop.com/

There was also a call out in the UK for volunteer engineers to help in 
hospitals:
https://www.raeng.org.uk/policy/engineering-response-covid-19-coronavirus/active-government-calls

There is lots of this sort of activity going on, but, since there are 
copyright & patent issues, it's not as well publicised as it should be.

See some discussion here:
https://talk.restarters.net/t/broken-covid-19-hospital-equipment-a-call-for-information/2658

... which references this article on the flip side of the issue:
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wxekgx/hospitals-need-to-repair-ventilators-manufacturers-are-making-that-impossible

Cheers,
Dave.

On 03/06/2020 16:56, Alexis De Greiff wrote:
> 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
>
>
> —————————————
> 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>
>
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>
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