Acting in anaesthesia : ethnographic encounters with patients, practitioners and medical technologies [electronic resource]
- 作者: Goodwin, Dawn.
- 其他題名:
- Learning in doing
- 出版: New York : Cambridge University Press
- 叢書名: Learning in doing : social, cognitive, and computational perspectives.
- 主題: Anesthesiology--Practice , Anesthesiology--organization & administration. , Clinical Competence , Interprofessional Relations , Operating Rooms , Patient Care Team , Electronic books.
- ISBN: 0521882060 (hardback) 、 9780521882064 (hardback) 、 9780511576058
- FIND@SFXID: CGU
- 資料類型: 電子書
- 內容註: Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-183) and index. Understanding anaesthesia : theory and practice -- Refashioning bodies, reshaping agency -- Accounting for incoherent bodies -- Teamwork, participation and boundaries -- Embodied knowledge : coordinating spaces, bodies and tools -- Recognising agency, legitimating participation and acting accountably in anaesthesia.
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- 系統號: 005049659 | 機讀編目格式
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In recent years, evidence-based medicine (EBM), clinical governance and professional accountability have become increasingly significant in shaping the organisation and delivery of healthcare. However, these notions all build upon and exemplify the idea of human-centred, individual action. In this book, Dawn Goodwin suggests that such models of practice exaggerate the extent to which practitioners are able to predict and control the circumstances and contingencies of healthcare. Drawing on ethnographic material, Goodwin explores the way that 'action' unfolds in a series of empirical cases of anaesthetic and intensive care practice. Anaesthesia configures a relationship between humans, machines and devices that transforms and redistributes capacities for action and thereby challenges the figure of a rational, intentional, acting individual. This book elucidates the ways in which various entities (machines, tools, devices and unconscious patients as well as healthcare practitioners) part