Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Iatrogenocide??

The term “iatrogenocide” is derived from the combination of words “iatrogenesis,” meaning physician induced illness, and “genocide,” defined as the mass killing and/or enslaving of people for economics, politics, and/or ideology by sistematic method such as medical mistakes.

Iatrogenesis = any adverse or physical condition induced in a patient through the effects of treatment by a physician or surgeon.
Causes of iatrogenesis include medical error, blood transfusion, negligence and the adverse effects or interactions of prescription drugs.
[Numbers] : In the United States, 225,000 deaths per year may be iatrogenic, making it the third leading cause of death.

Genocide = the deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group

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Site: Scale of the Built Environment

Scale can be very very small [nano] or very very big [celestial].. It depends on who measure it. Normally, it is a thing that relative to another object.

A same size object is view from different scale from different actor, such as a godzilla or an ant..

In built environment, we have 7 basic scales, which is

1. Object
2. Interior
3. Building
4. Premise
5. Urban
6. Regional
7. Global

Intention: Ideologies, design theories

Action: Scope of work (which is the development procedures)

Product: Design of physical object to physical world

Actors: Starts from Industrial Designer[object] >> Interior Architect[interior] >> Architect[building] >> Landscape Architect[premise] >> Urban Designer[urban] >> Planner[regional] >> "Governor"[global]

Rule: Legal aspects of development

Site: From factories to the internet