Science, Technology, and Society Program
"Adapt and Overcome": The Relationship Between Emergency Departments and the Opioid Epidemic
In my thesis, I argue that the opioid epidemic poses challenges but also opportunities for emergency departments to assess and improve their performance under duress for the betterment of future generations and ailments to come. I first delve into the...
"Alternative" childbirth: the complexity of birthing among Latinx folk in the United States
"It's Gotta be the Shoes": A Case Study on Shoes, Distance Running, and Technology in Sport
Over one weekend at the beginning of October 2019, Eliud Kipchoge's sub-two-hour marathon in the INEOS 1:59 Challenge and Brigid Kosgei's world-record-breaking Chicago Marathon win reset the clock in terms of what was believed to be humanly possible in the...
"Kill the pilgrim, save the water:" Ramapough sovereignty and resistance to the proposed Pilgrim Pipelines
"Kill the pilgrim, save the water:" Ramapough sovereignty and resistance to the proposed Pilgrim Pipelines
"No Compunction Whatsoever:" An Examination of the Institutional Norms of Science at the MIT Radiation Laboratory During the Second World War and Implications Beyond
'Female Viagra' and the intersection of medicine, gender, and desire: reinforcing misconceptions of female sexuality in the sexopharmaceutical era
A Collaborative Exploration of Mapuche Medicine as a Form of Resistance against Chilean-Imposed Westernization
The Mapuche are an Indigenous nation who have historically lived in southern Chile and Argentina, where their ancestral territory, Wallmapu, is located. Although the Mapuche largely succeeded in resisting Spanish conquest, the establishment of the Chilean Republic in 1810 and...
A Collaborative Exploration of Mapuche Medicine as a Form of Resistance against Chilean-Imposed Westernization
The Mapuche are an Indigenous nation who have historically lived in southern Chile and Argentina, where their ancestral territory, Wallmapu, is located. Although the Mapuche largely succeeded in resisting Spanish conquest, the establishment of the Chilean Republic in 1810 and...