Medical Technology and Jody Williams

Nobel Peace Prize Winner

Who is Jody Williams?

• Vermont, 1950
• Early age- hate injustice
• U.S. involvement in a civil war in El Salvador
• led to being coordinator

What jobs does this include?

What has this led to?

• For her work to ban landmines
• 10th woman and 3rd American
• advocate of freedom, self-determination and human/civil rights.
• shared with ICBL

• Ultrasound Technician, Radiologist
• Cardiovascular and Radiology technician
• Pharmacologist, Physicists
• Clinical engineer

• Issues with health costs
• Catching diseases beforehand
• Health of fetus'/pregnancy
• Better treatments

How has it affected today?

Jody Williams

• Longer life expectancy
• More surgery/survival options
• Health Care costs
• Reduced hospital stays

How did it affect the 19th and 20th centuries?

ICBL

• Great effect on health of society
• Improvements in clinical epidemiology
• Immunization, chemotherapy
• birth rate and population

• International Campaign to Ban Landmines
• global civil society coalition
• world without antipersonnel landmines
• humanitarian suffering caused by landmines.

Types of Medical Technology Used

• Hi-Tech Imaging
• Surgery, Artificial Devices
• Medications
• Instruments

What were the first technological advancements?

• thermometer, microscope, stethoscope, electrotherapy
• X- ray technology, radiology technology
• hearing aids, ventilators, pacemakers

Where did the advancements start? Who?

• Early advancements- Europe 1800's
• Rene Laennec
• France

Involvement in Peace

When did medical technology outbreak?

• 1,300 organizations in 95 countries
• UN bodies and the International Committee of the Red Cross
• Nobel Women’s Initiative
• human security, not national security.

• 1800's- basic untensils, minor machines
• 1900's- assistive technologies
• 1950's- added use of computers
• 1954- first successful transplant

Role in ICBL since 1998

• Campaign's chief strategist
• Campaign Ambassador
• oversaw growth
• international treaty banning antipersonnel landmines

Accomplishments since 1997

• chair of Nobel Women's Initiative
• 100 most powerful women
• Sam and Cele Keeper Endowed Professorship in Peace and Social Justice at the Graduate College of Social Work at the University of Houston
• famous memoir

Medical Technology & Jody Williams

by Dominique DeAngels

Her Memoir

Current Jobs/Work

• her journey
• personal life in politics
• Education
• My Name is Jody Williams: A Vermont Girl’s Winding Path to the Nobel Peace Prize

• Still with ICBL
• professor at U of H
• writing books