Jessica Anne Stockdale

Jessica Anne Stockdale
Brighton and Sussex Medical School | BSMS

Doctor of Philosophy
Philosopher and photographer working in medicine, conservation and indigenous philosophical perspectives

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Introduction
Jessica is a philosopher working in medicine, conservation and indigenous philosophical perspectives across epistemology, ethics, and political philosophy. Jessica’s current research concerns the ethical, political and economic dimensions of using real-world health data in research and development; justice-based issues in planetary health; and indigenous philosophical perspectives on the environment and land rights in Papua New Guinea.
Additional affiliations
September 2023 - present
Brighton and Sussex Medical School
Position
  • Lecturer
Description
  • Delivery of undergraduate and postgraduate medical student teaching and supervision in the philosophy of medicine, ethics, academic skills and other topics
January 2017 - September 2023
Brighton and Sussex Medical School
Position
  • Sessional Teaching Instructor
Description
  • Delivery of teaching and supervision in philosophy, research methodology and planetary health to undergraduate and postgraduate students
March 2015 - January 2018
Brighton and Sussex Medical School
Position
  • Research Assistant
Description
  • Independent delivery of a project investigating patient attitudes towards sharing patient health data for research and innovation.
Education
September 2017 - March 2023
University of Sussex
Field of study
  • Philosophy
September 2015 - September 2016
King's College London
Field of study
  • Philosophy
September 2012 - June 2015
University of Sussex
Field of study
  • Philosophy

Publications

Publications (16)
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Background : Use of medical data for secondary purposes such as health research, audit, and service planning is well established in the UK. However, the governance environment, as well as public opinion and understanding about this work, have lagged behind. We aimed to systematically review the literature on UK and Irish public opinions of medical...
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We suggest that the emerging field of the conservation humanities can play a valuable role in biodiversity protection in Papua New Guinea (PNG), where most land remains under collective customary clan ownership. As a first step to mobilising this scholarly field in PNG and to support capacity development for PNG humanities academics, we conducted a...
Article
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Objectives. Determine community needs and perspectives as part of planning health service incorporation into Wanang Conservation Area, in support of locally driven sustainable development. Design. Clinical and rapid anthropological assessment (individual primary care assessments, key informant (KI) interviews, focus groups (FGs), ethnography) with...
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Objectives. Determine community needs and perspectives as part of planning health service incorporation into Wanang Conservation Area. Design. Clinical and rapid anthropological assessment (individual primary care assessments, Key Informant [KI] interviews, Focus Groups [FGs], ethnography) with parallel treatment of urgent cases.Setting. Wanang (po...
Article
Points clés: - Au Canada, les courtiers en données commerciales peuvent actuellement utiliser des données dépersonnalisées sur les patients détenues par les pharmacies, les régimes d’assurance-médicaments privés, le gouvernement fédéral et les cliniques médicales, et ce, sans le consentement des patients. - Même si les sociétés pharmaceutiques sont...
Poster
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Much critical attention has been paid to the use of qualitative research in the medical sciences, with proponents advancing discussions of what it is and how it may be appraised, and critics arguing that it is of exploratory use only. Using philosophical analysis, I argue that such discussions are flawed insofar as they endorse the idea that qualit...
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Background : Use of patients’ medical data for secondary purposes such as health research, audit, and service planning is well established in the UK. However, the governance environment, as well as public understanding about this work, have lagged behind. We aimed to systematically review the literature on UK and Irish public views of patient data...
Conference Paper
This presentation was given as part of the panel "Understanding how to gain public trust in healthcare text analytics". One of the biggest barriers to progressing the field of healthcare text analytics is gaining access to patient free text data from medical records and letters. Data custodians may be wary of allowing this data to be shared for res...
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Objectives Electronic health records (EHRs) contain rich information for understanding health conditions and their treatment. A large proportion of clinical information in EHRs is stored in narrative free text. This text is currently under-utilised due to privacy concerns, as it is harder to remove patient identifiers from text than from structured...

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