The Noise

Senior producer Yesmar Oyurzun sits down with linguistic anthropologist Dr. Beth Semel to talk about how different technological tools are used in biomedicine. In her own work, Dr. Semel studies how data driven diagnostic techniques are used to screen for stages of mental health, which failed to work. Yesmar and Dr. Semel discuss the relationship between medical diagnostic techniques, race, and data to explore the limits of processing social and embodied complexities into useful information. Metastasis is a part of the Medicine Race Democracy Lab. We are sponsored by the Bridge Systemic Racism and Racial Inequity Seed Grant and a product of The Center for Black Brown Queer Studies. Our producers include Alicia Leong, Aysel Rizvi, Bilal Rehman, Eddie Jackson, Emma Cooke, Jason Lee, Julianne Bi, Katherine Wu, Mandy Quan Taylor Phillips, Tian-Tian He, and Yesmar Oyarzun. Danyal Rizvi is our executive producer and Cher Vincent, our Senior Advisor. Our music is by MOIZ. This project is directed by Lan Li. For more of our episodes, check us out at metastasispodcast.com and learn more about the lab mrdlab.org