An Ethnography of Everyday Caring for the Living, the Dying, and the Dead
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Technology has become synonymous with medical intervention, particularly in hospital settings in the Western world. Much money is spent on the invention, design, and implementation of biomedical technologies. Yet there is little analysis of how the implementation of these technologies unfolds in an everyday or every night context. This article illustrates how ethnographic practices may be used to study everyday caring for the living, the dying, and the dead for organ donation. The description of the social organization of technological practices includes the first author's stories and field reflections and the stories of participants in interviews and conversations in the field. Using ethnographic practice as a reference point, a biomedical technographic approach to illuminate the human—technology relationship in a world of techno-intervention is described. Emphasis is placed on the urgent need for development of a biomedical technography and for social change to address biomedical dominance.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it