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SUMMARY:Expedient Classification: Diagnosis in Lived Experience and Medical Practice
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 Join us for this free webinar from Megh Marathe, 
 PhD, presented as part of the 2022-2023 Bioethics 
 Public Seminar Series. Register: https://bit.ly/bioethics-marathe.\n
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 This 
 talk examines 
 how doctors and patients distinguish between 
 normal and pathological events through 
 the case of epilepsy. Epilepsy is a chronic 
 illness and disability characterized by recurrent 
 and unpredictable seizures. Seizures are 
 transient events during which people lose control 
 over parts of body-mind function. The talk 
 shows that the diagnostic boundary between 
 seizure and non-seizure events is fluid, dynamic, 
 and porous in lived experience and medical 
 practice. Calling an event a seizure has 
 consequences well beyond treatment, also affecting 
 a patient's financial stability, social 
 participation, and life aspirations. Hence, 
 doctors and patients take an expedient approach 
 to classifying seizures, informally modifying 
 the very definition of seizure to postpone 
 or avoid severe consequences. Doing so enables 
 doctors and patients to bend rigid classification 
 schemes to suit the complex realities 
 of people's lives. This work advances scholarship 
 on classification and expertise in information 
 studies, science and technology studies, 
 and disability studies.\n\n
 Price: free\n
 Sponsor: Center for Bioethics and Social Justice\n
 Sponsor's Homepage: http://www.bioethics.msu.edu/\n
 Contact name: Liz McDaniel\n
 Contact email: center@msu.edu\n
 for more info visit the web at:\n 
 https://bioethics.msu.edu/public-seminars/22-23-series\n
LOCATION:Virtual (Zoom webinar)
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