There's a lot of debate about whether or not it's better to meet on zoom with mask, then to wait in the office with a ask yes. People have very strong feelings about this. And so that's really where the kota is trying to go at the end. Why ritm it turns out scientifically that it works just fine? But same with zoom, is considered as good as in person. Yet, experience is saying something else for a lot of people.
Hannah Zeavin, lecturer in the department of History and member of the executive committees of both the Center for New Media and the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society at University of California, Berkeley, talks about her book, The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy, with Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel. The book tracks the history of teletherapy, which Zeavin defines as therapeutic interaction over distance, and its metamorphosis from a model of cure to one of contingent help. The book starts with letters sent through the mail and ends in our current coronavirus catastrophe. Zeavin and Vinsel also talk about the complexities and potential harms of going back fully in-person, including how it will negatively affect disabled people.
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