WilliamsMemo6

Williams Memo 6 Delineating a Project

__**Working Title: Knowledge and technology transfer of surgical technology-practice**__

recognizes that medical technology transfer is not just transferring medical artifacts and techniques, but also involves the translation of culture and values between industrialized and developing societies.
 * Understanding The Political Processes Which Shape And Guide Medical Technology Transfer** including an analysis of the self-sustaining entrepreneurial NGO and its formation of collective identity (Melucci 1996), its participation in transnational activism (Tarrow 1998&2005) and integration into transnational activist networks (Keck and Skikink 1999), and its design of public and private spaces, material artifacts and large socio-technical systems (Bijker, Hughes, and Pinch, ed. 1987)
 * Creating A More General Theoretical Framework For International Medical Technology Transfer** that
 * Adding To The Discourse On Sustainable Economic Development With Examples Of Medical Technology Innovation** by examining the design valences surrounding surgical technology-practice adapted to a country with limited technoscientific resources