Ethox and WEH Seminar - Archival Ethics from Below: The Case of the Uganda Cancer Institute's Records
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At the Uganda Cancer Institute, lines often blur between past and present, sickness and health, life and death. Founded in 1967 as a small chemotherapy clinical trials facility in Kampala, today the Institute’s 100+ beds serve a population catchment of over 40 million living in the Great Lakes region of Africa. The Institute houses the only continuous collection of patient records documenting cancer treatment and care on the African continent. As this Institute gets torn down and built back up, so too do longstanding practices of cancer research and care. And with all of these changes at the Institute, there are major questions about what to preserve, what to discard, and what to celebrate. And in particular, what should be “done” with the institutional records and patient records at this site? This talk considers the temporal, methodological, and ethical challenges of preserving patient records at the Uganda Cancer Institute.
Date: 13 February 2019, 11:00 (Wednesday, 5th week, Hilary 2019)
Venue: Big Data Institute (NDM), Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar Room 0
Speaker: Dr Marissa Mika (University College London)
Organising department: Ethox Centre
Part of: Ethox Centre Seminars
Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Members of the University only
Editors: Graham Bagley, Hannah Freeman