Acting in Anaesthesia - Ethnographic Encounters With Patients, Practitioners Medical

Informationen zum Autor Dawn Goodwin is a social science lecturer in medical education and director of problem-based learning and teaches courses on various aspects of science, technology and medicine to both medical and social science students. Her current research interests focus on the development of embodied knowledge, its place in clinical practice and the processes of learning involved. Her doctoral and postdoctoral research centred on the notions of participation and accountability in healthcare practice. Along with colleagues Dr Buscher and Dr Mesman, Dawn Goodwin is currently editing a book of ethnographic studies of diagnostic work drawn from a range of disciplines. Klappentext This book examines anaesthetic practice from the sociological perspective of science and technology studies. Zusammenfassung This book examines anaesthetic practice from the sociological perspective of science and technology studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Understanding anaesthesia: theory and practice; 2. Refashioning bodies, reshaping agency; 3. Accounting for incoherent bodies; 4. Teamwork, participation, and boundaries; 5. Embodied knowledge: coordinating spaces, bodies, and tools; 6. Recognising agency, legitimating participation, and acting accountably in anaesthesia.

Product details

• Authors: Dawn Goodwin, Dawn (Lancaster University) Goodwin
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.02.2009
• EAN: 9780521882064
• ISBN: 978-0-521-88206-4
• No. of pages: 204
• Series: Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives; Learning in Doing: Social, Cog
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous