Watching the Ethnographers

Patients as ethnographers.

I recently spent 2 weeks as an inpatient on a hospital ward. It was not an experience I would have chosen, but I had several advantages by comparison with many of the other patients. I was ambulant for most of the time. As a doctor, I was able to understand many of the technical details of my condition and its treatment. By a strange coincidence, a colleague and friend of mine was also admitted...

Watching You Watching Me: The Art of Playing the Panopticon

As governments increasingly deliver services over the Internet, the opportunities for monitoring and surveillance of society increase. In public services to support the vulnerable, such as welfare, monitoring and surveillance functionality is often regarded by system designers as important components in defences against fraud and system misuse. However, the responses from the participants in th...

Watching the watchman.

e know that the risk of stroke is increased in patients with trial fibrillation (AF), presumably because stagnant blood ow within the left atrium leads to thrombus formation. mportantly, 90% of thrombi, when seen by echocardiograhy in patients with nonrheumatic AF, are located in the eft atrial appendage (LAA) (1,2). Standard treatment of atients with AF is anticoagulation with warfarin. If war...

[Watching the river flow].

Watching the watchers.

A.J. Balukoff Eric L. Berliner Marilyn Bickle Melinda Blinken Jerry M. Brady Christopher Burke Bethine Church Chase Church Nina Church-Adams Richard Claussen Lily Kepros Collias Kellie Cosho Curtis Eaton Dr. Roy Ellsworth Peter Fenn Rod Gramer Diane Plastino Graves Penny Gross James Grossman The Hon. Orval Hansen Russ Heller Charles Herrington Stanley Johnson Dr. John H. Keiser The Hon. Larry L...