Access Under Siege: The Impact of Technology on Public Policy and Access to Electronic Records in the United States

2006 ◽  
Vol 1 (6) ◽  
pp. 85-90
Author(s):  
Sandra Chance
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Electronic Records ◽  
Impact Of Technology ◽  
The Impact

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Sarah Esther Lageson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Due Process ◽  
The United States ◽  
Prison Sentence ◽  
Criminal Records ◽  
Valuable Data ◽  
Opt Out ◽  
Data Points ◽  
The Impact

Data-driven criminal justice creates millions of records each year in the United States. Documenting everything from a police stop to a prison sentence, these records take on a digital life of their own as they are collected and posted by police, courts, and prisons, and then re-posted on social media and websites, and bought and sold by data brokers as an increasingly valuable data commodity. The result is “digital punishment,” where mere suspicion or a brush with the law can have lasting consequences. This analysis describes the transformation of criminal records into millions of data points, the commodification of this data into a valuable digital resource, and the impact of this shift on people, society, and public policy. The consequences of digital punishment, as described in hundreds of interviews detailed in this book, lead people to purposefully opt out of society as they cope with privacy and due process violations.

Maximizing Autonomy: Reforming Personal Support Laws in Sweden and the United States

1995 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 213-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stanley S. Herr
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Support Services ◽  
The United States ◽  
Mental Disabilities ◽  
Related Services ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Personal Support ◽  
Personal Assistants ◽  
The Impact

Reforming outmoded systems of guardianship requires that governments assess personal support and related services. U.S. policy-makers and reformers in individual states have begun to question how current guardianship laws may disempower individuals with mental disabilities. This article explores some remarkable legal and public policy innovations in Sweden that replace guardianship with personal support services such as mentors, administrators, “kontakt” persons, and personal assistants. It then examines the impact of Sweden's reforms on the autonomy, independence, and integration of its citizens and discusses possibilities for similar changes worldwide.

scholarly journals Medicalization and Fear: A Midwifery View of the Phenomenon and the Backlash

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-88
Author(s):  
Sydney Comstock
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Norm ◽  
The United States ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Certified Nurse Midwives ◽  
Birth Centers ◽  
Nurse Midwives ◽  
Impact Of Technology ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The U.S

The phenomenon of medicalization in the United States is something that midwives must deal with on a daily basis, and it has far-reaching consequences for women’s health. This article examines the culture of birth in the U.S. and how medicalization has manifested itself as a social norm from the perspectives of working certified nurse midwives in hospitals and birth centers. It explores the philosophy of the medicalized birth, the impact of technology on the perpetuation of medicalization in United States’ culture, and the fear of this phenomenon that midwives are starting to see in practice, which adversely affects their work. This article argues that advances in and dependence on obstetrical technology have enabled medicalization to continue and created a response of fear from women who worry this phenomenon will negatively affect their birthing experience. My research demonstrates that midwives recognize that the dominance of technology in health care has shaped not only how birth has become medicalized, but also how women are responding to this “technocratic birth” and how navigating women’s fears about hyper-medicalization has become a central part of midwives’ practice. Through Michel Foucault’s theory of biopower and Robbie Davis-Floyd’s idea of the “technocratic birth,” this article explains how medicalization depends on technology and why midwives are seeing an adverse reaction from women who fear these trends. 

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