Alzheimer’s disease and sociology of expectations

 

 

 

Option 2 AlphaFold for Alzheimer’s disease and sociology of expectations
A representative from an Alzheimer’s disease patient organisation approaches you with a story on a new artificial intelligence tool that is said to predict protein structures and will revolutionise drug discovery. Given that Alzheimer’s disease results from protein mis-folding, it seems that this tool, called AlphaFold, could be a game changer for Alzheimer’s sufferers. The patient representative asks you to look into the promises made, and to give the patient organisation advice on how they should communicate this news with their members, and whether they should start a campaign asking them to invest (financially and by donating biological samples) into a project using AlphaFold to study Alzheimer’s.
Drawing on insights from the sociology of expectations or the political economy of hope, and on content from SOC251, especially weeks 10-11, write a research or policy brief examining discourses about AlphaFold (especially the future-oriented ones) and providing advice to the patient organisation on how they should communicate with their members about this new technology.

 

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Absorption is getting engrossed in recreational activities or getting engaged in every day work. During absorption attention is more focused and stable where as environmental and personal context is impaired. As voluntary control and awareness are the major elements of consciousness , when there is a disruption seen in one or both the process, disassociation is seen to be present. According to some studies there are multiple form of dissociative experience under which Absorption and Imaginative Involvement is one form under which individuals feel that when they are watching T.V or a movie they become very absorbed in the story that are unaware of what other events are happening around them(NielsG. Walller 1996)

Some filmmakers also intentionally seek to induce an altered state of consciousness in their audience, by doing this self-awareness can be reduced and personal concerns thereby dislocated, for some time. Here dissociation may act as a psychological clutch allowing the individual to disengage from aversive or wearisome experience Or they seem to be , flights into escapist behaviours (may) reflect the painfulness of having to be continuously aware of the variety of unfinished businesses in one’s life which cannot be acted upon relatively quickly.(Lisa.D.Butler,2006) According to Buttler and Palesh watching films videos or television are viewed as deliberately engaging in dissociative experiences. Video terminal Dissociation Trance was an attempt to develop knowledge of disorders which are connected to virtual realities this involve having a significant disturbances in the state of consciousness, identity, and memory, the dilution of self-awareness and self-integrity, and the replacement of the customary sense of personal identity by a new virtual identity. There are three factors considered under video terminal dissociative trance which are regression, Addiction and Dissociation, in this dissociation as a defence mechanism allows the people to avoid emotional distress for some time by screening out excessive or over whelming stimulus.( Adraino Schimmentil, 2017).

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