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SUMMARY:Dr Watson: the impending automation of medical diagnosis and treat
 ment - Bennett Holman (Yonsei University)
DTSTART:20180131T130000Z
DTEND:20180131T143000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Recent advancements in patient-networking and patient advocacy
  are \nbeginning to have dramatic impacts on the regulation of drugs.  Whi
 le \npatient empowerment is typically portrayed positively\, the advent of
  \nonline networking sites such as 'Patients Like Me' have allowed patient
 s \nto coordinate with each other in ways that rarely possible in the past
 .  \nIrrespective of what ones view on this movement\, I will argue that i
 t is \ndescriptive fact that the modern regime of regulating drugs relies 
 on \npassive or at least cooperative study participants.  I will show thro
 ugh \na case study of ALS treatments how patient activists have used onlin
 e \nnetworking sites to unblind themselves of their trial group assignment
  \nand thus undermine the use of double-blind RCTs as a means to establish
  \nefficacy.  However\, new developments on the horizon of medicine offer 
 a \nnew alternative to this (I claim doomed) regime.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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