KNOWLEDGES


 * __Asthma Knowledges __ **

//What person, group or organization is being profiled, and why are they of interest to The Asthma Files? //
 * //Identifying Asthma Knowledges //**

//What have they done – through research, or a particular way of documenting or caring for asthma, for example-- that illustrates how they conceive of the causes, triggers and management of asthma? //

//What timeline of events illustrates how this way of thinking about asthma has developed? //

//What causes, mechanisms, triggers and dynamics of asthma are identified or presumed by this way of thinking about asthma? //
 * //Characterizing Asthma Knowledges //**

//Does this person, group or organization claim to have a new or unique way of thinking about asthma? Does this approach point to or suggest problems with other approaches? //

//What studies have they done to further their understanding of asthma? How were their studies designed? //

//What data (including experiential data) was collected or used to support or explore their way of thinking about asthma? What visualizations of this data have been created? //

//What relationships and types of causation are drawn out in this way of thinking about asthma? //

//What kinds of technology and infrastructure enabled this ways of producing asthma knowledge? //

//What kinds of social collectivity have shaped or enabled this way of thinking about asthma? //

//How does this person, group or organization make use of data and findings generated by others – in other scientific disciplines, in other municipal or national contexts, etc.? //

//Has this person, group or organization devised ways of testing their asthma knowledge, or ways to pursue new asthma knowledge? //

//How can the thought style of this person, group or organization be described? //

//<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">How has this person, group or organization shared their way of thinking about or caring for asthma? What kinds of publications or events were produced? What visualizations were circulated? //
 * //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Sharing and Acting on Asthma Knowledges //**

//<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">How has their way of thinking about and caring for asthma been received or taken up by others? //

//<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">What actions or programs are called for by this way of thinking about asthma? Who would be responsible for these actions or programs? //

//<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">What social ecology does this person, group or organization work within, and how did it shaped their way of conceiving and engaging asthma? //
 * //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Influences on Asthma Knowledges //**

//<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">What events or data seem to have motivated their ways of thinking about and engaging asthma? //

//<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">What funding enables their work and possibly shapes their way of thinking about asthma? //

//<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">What in the history of this person, group or organization likely shaped the way they conceived or and engage asthma? //

//<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">What does this person, group or organization seem to find methodologically challenging or concerning in dealing with asthma? //
 * //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Asthma Knowledge as Cultural Critique //**

//<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">What experience, events or data do they point to exemplify problems with conventional ways of thinking about and dealing with asthma? //

//<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">What assumptions about asthma do they actively try to avoid or displace? //

//<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">What knowledge forms and practices seem to be idealized by this person, group or organization? //

//<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">What kinds of asthma literacy are (implicitly or explicitly) called for by the way this person, group or organization thinks about asthma? //

//<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">What kinds of governance are (implicitly or explicitly) called for in the way they think about asthma? //

//<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">How can The Asthma Files enable or supplement this way of thinking about asthma, and the work of this person, group or organization? //