Undisciplinary

Diagnostic tests, risks & the quest for certainty: talking with Kiran Pienaar

December 02, 2021 Undisciplinary Season 4 Episode 6
Undisciplinary
Diagnostic tests, risks & the quest for certainty: talking with Kiran Pienaar
Show Notes

In this episode we are talking with Kiran Pienaar about the uncertainties and ambivalences produces via medical tests and diagnostics. We discuss some of her recent work with Prof Alan Petersen and the notion of bio-subjectivities. Plus leaf blowers. 

Sources discussed include:

  • Searching for diagnostic certainty, governing risk: Patients' ambivalent experiences of medical testing 
  • Managing risks or generating uncertainties? Ambiguous ontologies of testing in Australian healthcare

Audio

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