In May 1973 a new collaboration between NASA, the Indian Health Service, and the Lockheed Missiles and Space Company promised to transform the way members of the Papago (now Tohono O’odham) Tribe of southern Arizona accessed modern medicine. Through a system of state-of-the-art microwave relays, slow-scan television links, and Mobile Health Units, the residents of the third-largest American Indian reservation began to access physicians remotely via telemedical encounters instead of traveling to distant hospitals. Examining the history of the STARPAHC (Space Technology Applied to Rural Papago Advanced Health Care) project from the perspective of NASA and its contractors, from the perspective of the Indian Health Service, and from the perspective of O’odham engineers and health professionals offers a new focus, emphasizing the American Indian reservation as a site of medical research and technological development in the late twentieth century, with specific attention to the promise of information technology to address health disparities and the role of American Indians as actors in the late twentieth-century history of science, technology, and medicine.

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保留地创新：亚利桑那州帕帕戈部落的信息技术和卫生系统研究，1965-1980

1973 年 5 月，美国宇航局、印度卫生局和洛克希德导弹和航天公司之间的一项新合作承诺改变亚利桑那州南部 Papago（现在的 Tohono O'odham）部落成员获取现代医学的方式。通过最先进的微波中继系统、慢扫描电视链接和移动医疗机构，美国第三大印第安保留地的居民开始通过远程医疗会诊远程就医，而不是前往遥远的医院。从 NASA 及其承包商的角度、印度卫生服务的角度以及 O'odham 工程师和卫生专业人员的角度审视 STARPAHC（空间技术应用于农村 Papago 高级医疗保健）项目的历史，提供了一个新焦点，