Event
Esquisses Speaker Series: "I found a photograph from your medical file on google images. Do you care?" by Professor Zack Marshall
Thursday, March 21, 2019 12:30to14:00
Peel 3487
Seminar room, 3487 rue Peel, Montreal, QC, H3A 1W7, CA
When: Thursday March 21st, 12:30-2:00
Where: IGSF Seminar Room, 3487 Peel street
In 2017, I realized that medical photographs of trans people from some of the case reports published in peer-reviewed journals were showing up in google image search results. In collaboration with my team, we conducted a systematic search of 605 medical photographs from 94 case reports published between 2008-2015. Of these, 37% of the studies had at least one photograph freely available on google images. I found these results shocking, but so far this information has garnered little interest. In this presentation, I will explore some of my thinking about the best strategies to draw attention to this situation and to motivate changes in policy and practice.