Article ID: CBB165924551

Innovation on the Reservation: Information Technology and Health Systems Research among the Papago Tribe of Arizona, 1965–1980 (2020)

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In May 1973 a new collaboration between NASA, the Indian Health Service, and the Lockheed Missiles and Space Company promised to transform the way members of the Papago (now Tohono O’odham) Tribe of southern Arizona accessed modern medicine. Through a system of state-of-the-art microwave relays, slow-scan television links, and Mobile Health Units, the residents of the third-largest American Indian reservation began to access physicians remotely via telemedical encounters instead of traveling to distant hospitals. Examining the history of the STARPAHC (Space Technology Applied to Rural Papago Advanced Health Care) project from the perspective of NASA and its contractors, from the perspective of the Indian Health Service, and from the perspective of O’odham engineers and health professionals offers a new focus, emphasizing the American Indian reservation as a site of medical research and technological development in the late twentieth century, with specific attention to the promise of information technology to address health disparities and the role of American Indians as actors in the late twentieth-century history of science, technology, and medicine.

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Authors & Contributors
Leckie, Jacqueline
Luedee, Jonathan
Dahdah, Marine Al
Ferguson, Cody
Sugita, Yoneyuki
Sousa, Amandia Braga Lima
Concepts
Public health
Health care
Medicine
Indigenous peoples; indigeneity
Medicine and government
Medicine and society
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
20th century
20th century, early
Places
Canada
Arizona (U.S.)
United States
West Germany
Brazil
Arctic regions
Institutions
European Association against Poliomyelitis
World Health Organization (WHO)
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