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'Gynepunks' DIY Gynecology For Underserved Women
New submitter Alien7 sends an article about a group of bio-hackers who are out to bring DIY gynecological medicine to women who don't have easy access to it.
Under the name GynePunks, they're assembling an arsenal of open-source tools for DIY diagnosis and first-aid care—centrifuges made from old hard drive motors; microscopes from deconstructed webcams; homemade incubators; and 3D printable speculums. ... So far the work is largely focused on diagnosis, and members of the collective are quick to note that what they’re creating is far from a comprehensive solution. It’s limited by some obvious factors—access to materials, a place to put them together, and the time to do it. But where the infrastructure does exist, and people are motivated to do so, it is very possible to establish some useful alternatives for self-care. As an example, Klau pointed to a pilot vinegar test program that’s lowered cervical cancer deaths by some 31 percent among poor women in Mumbai’s slums.
Then you mention mumbai and one can only imaging how rotten that fish will smell.
they're assembling an arsenal of open-source tools for DIY diagnosis and first-aid care—centrifuges made from old hard drive motors; microscopes from deconstructed webcams; homemade incubators; and 3D printable speculums.
So they're getting 3D printable speculums, cool, but what about more basic, affordable tools, like good ol' coat hangers or steep staircases?
lucm, indeed.
Not that long ago we would have an article about using a few lenses from old telescopes and microscopes to make a webcam.
Can anyone tell me why the people living in these slums apparently have no urge at all to try to improve their situations? Why do they relentlessly defecate in the streets wherever they wish, rather than at least digging a pit of some sort and defecating there? Why don't they isolate their garbage to a single location? These aren't the kinds of things that one needs money or even specialized tools in order to do. I mean, to dig a pit for defecation you need a shovel. That's it! Even cats manage to do this on their own, without such tools, and with no money.
It's hard to feel sorry for people who don't put forth even the most minimal level of effort necessary to improve their lives. I'm not expecting them to live in mansions or to have fancy vehicles, for Pete's sake. We're talking about not urinating and defecating where you sleep! That should just come naturally to most people.
We're worried about people being able to afford a speculum (they cost about $0.90 each at retail) so we're ... suggesting they just fire up their handy 3D printer?
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
Health care is not something you really want to DIY.
First aid is fine (go ahead, wash the cut and apply a bandage).
But lab tests, diagnosis, etc. can literally be a matter of life and death.
Certified products and licensed providers are the way to go.
"But isn't something better than nothing?"
Not always. Not if you get a false positive on a problem that doesn't exist, and then start taking steps that make a real problem (that you missed) even worse.
Universal health care for all human beings everywhere on the globe, or bust.
Does it say un-deserved or under-served?
This is like the website address for Expert's exchange.
We spend way too much on women's health care and clearly Planned Parenthood isn't doing much of it anyway.
Let's just outsource it.
PEOPLE make slums. That's why. Because the people of 'Mumbai' (or Bombay, as we used to call it), are generally SCUM.
But I'll take a look
or it didn't happen.
Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.
I was an amateur gynecologist all through college as a part time hobby. I've got a t-shirt that proves it.
It seems so obvious that basic law enforcement, economic develop, and educational reform would fix most of these kinds of problems, that I'm forced to wonder how awfully bad government corruption is that going to these extremes seems a practical choice for the people doing it.
Although Apple Inc.'s Mr. Cook is Gay and his Apple Watch is a bust, he could still theoretically deal his Apple Watch back into the tech game by building a Apple Dildo (Bluetooth) for Apple Watch.
Then he could boost that he has actually been with a woman, sort of, theoretically that is.
Ha ha
There is a large, unservered population of women without access to a gynecologist but do have access to a 3D printer?
Ken
For 7 days and doesn't die.
"I'm not a professional gynecologist but I'll certainly take a look at it for you."
(sometimes said while holding the printed side of a CD to my forehead)
hobbies with observing a real, live vagina (that was consenting to be seen). Guess I learned something new today.
http://www.penisland.net/
No matter what you think it's not a pawn site
Captcha: jackass
3D printed speculums? Well, that's dumb! They don't have access to tools that cost less than 1$ but they have access to 3D printers? Someone needs to rethink this one..
WTF is 'decolonizing the female body'??
Recruit and train 8th grade boys?
They'll do it for free, anytime, any place.
Plus, speaking frankly, the close-up reality of "modes of failure" in that equipment will likely turn them off sex entirely for years, lowering teen pregnancy.
-Styopa
Original song: http://www.guitaretab.com/l/lo...
But now:
My old man's a gynecologist,
He wears thin rubber gloves.
He plays with womens' fleshy parts,
'Coz that's the job he loves.
BTW, this version has hand gestures, too.