Seminar: Reflections on Medical Technologies in the Age of AI

Over the past decade. Amy Moran-Thomas has used medical anthropology approaches to explore the need for more equitable design around health technologies.  In this talk, she reflects back on key case studies and discusses their implications for computing and healthcare in the age of AI.

Amy Moran-Thomas’s ethnographic research focuses on how health technologies and ecologies are designed and come to be materially embodied—often inequitably—by people in their ordinary lives. Prof. Moran-Thomas received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from Princeton University in 2012. Her writings have appeared in publications such as New England Journal of Medicine and Wired.  Her first book, Traveling with Sugar: Chronicles of a Global Epidemic, offers an anthropological account of diabetes care technologies in use and the lives they shape in global perspective. she is interested in how social perspectives on design can contribute to producing fairer health technologies.