How can drawing be used by anthropologists as an effective method, mode of analysis and means to present research
method
mode of analysis
means to present research
Drawing
anthropologists
effective
whats happening in the medical feild
What makes something effective?
body movement
diagrams/ visualisation
process 131
medical anthropologists
multidicipinary feild
graphic anthropology, Ingold
sucessful in producing the desired or intended result
walking 140
way of embodying environment 131
inscription
trace of walked movement like the video chapter in ingold
NOT just A to B
technology recording data
what makes it important?
does this hint at a larger trend?
biomedicalization
PROCESS VS. PROCUCT
diagrams as knowlege production
OPIMIZATION VISUALIZATION
trends
shift to computers, data, algorithmems and software
visualisation
optimisation
clarke
technology, video as inscription
charts and diagrams as art
enhancement
what is clarke missing in her study
rich anayslis of trends in medicine, and the social pressures which change the medical institutions
increasing use of pharmaceuticals for prevention and enhancement, the new biomedical focus on risk and risk prevention the commodification of medicine. Through case studies She connects the sociopolitical technical and epsistemuc in
anaylisis of the visual iconography and how important visuals are in shaping medicine
Tufte
she focuses on visuals in pop culture such as direct to consumer advertisements or paintings// or visuals used in knowlege production such as those of MRI XRAY or Ultrasounds. But she does not cover the visuallisation of data, that goes to inform polocy desision and
THE IMPORTANCE OF DATA VISUALS
movement
Gell example
WE NEED TO APPLY THESE CREATIVE UNDERSTANDINGS OF DRAWING TO UNDERSTAND....
joyce pp38
This should be applied to medicine because- the life sciences have transformed society at a local national and global level in a magnitude of social structures from clinic to factory
MP
multimedia
lean methodogy
Spagettii diagrams