My name is Andrea Wojcik, and I am a newly hired PhD candidate in the Department of Technology and Society Studies. I have specifically been hired as part of Assistant Professor Anna Harris’ ERC project: ‘The birth of the digital doctor? A comparative anthropology of medical techno-perception’. My time at Maastricht University will be primarily consumed by the question: ‘How do technologies affect how doctors in training learn to sense bodies?’
I recently completed my MSc at the University of Amsterdam, where I wrote my thesis on postindustrial metabolism (see Hannah Landecker) in laboratory practices of brown fat. Before moving to the Netherlands, I studied Communication and Gender Studies at the University of Hartford in the USA. My (often but not always scholarly) interests include science studies, technology, health, bodies (and the normalisation thereof), gender, feminism, and food. I otherwise look forward to continuing to learn, beginning to teach, and collaborating with my peers.
Dr. MDF van Eijsden-Besseling
November 27, 2019
For Andrea Wojcik.
I have read your article in the Observant and I am interested in the subject of your PhD project, being a retired rehabilitation doctor in Maastricht who is in the board of a Ghana foundation, supporting a hospital in Ghana.
What is the meaning of: to learn students how to use their senses in making a diagnosis? Do you mean that students have to learn to use their “ pluis/niet-pluisgevoel” in stead of dealing with protocols? Please can you inform me? Thanks in advance!