Technology and Medical Practice: Blood, Guts and Machines

229 Pages·2010·3.364 MB·English

by  Ericka Johnson (ed.), Boel Berner (ed.)

Technology and Medical PracTice
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Technology and Medical Practice
Blood, guts and Machines
edited by
ericKa JohnSon
Division for Science and Technology Studies,
University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Boel Berner
Department of Thematic Studies – Technology and Social Change
Linköping University Sweden
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Technology and medical practice : blood, guts and machines.
-- (Theory, technology and society)
1. Medical innovations--Social aspects. 2. Social
medicine.
i. Series ii. Johnson, ericka, 1973- iii. Berner, Boel.
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Technology and medical practice : blood, guts and machines / [edited] by ericka Johnson
and Boel Berner.
p. cm. -- (Theory, technology and society)
includes bibliographical references and index.
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1. Medical technology--Social aspects. 2. Medical personnel and patient. 3. Social medi-
cine. 4. Feminist theory. i. Johnson, ericka, 1973- ii. Berner, Boel.
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contents
List of Figures vii
Notes on Contributors ix
Acknowledgements xiii
introduction: Technology and Medical Practice: Blood, guts and Machines 1
Ericka Johnson and Boel Berner
PART 1 JUDGING BODIES
1 Defining the Pubescent Body: Three Cases of Biomedicine’s
approach to ‘Pathology’ 13
Celia Roberts
2 learning to Produce, See and Say the (ab)normal: Professional
Vision in Ultrasound Scanning during Pregnancy 29
Kerstin Sandell
3 accounting for incoherent Bodies 51
Dawn Goodwin and Maggie Mort
PART 2 SIMULATING BODIES
4 The anatomy of a Surgical Simulation: The Mutual articulation
of Bodies in and Through the Machine 79
Rachel Prentice
5 Blonde Birth Machines: Medical Simulation, Techno-corporeality
and Posthuman Feminism 97
Jenny Sundén
6 Simulating Medical Patients and Practices: Bodies and
the construction of Valid Medical Simulators 119
Ericka Johnson
vi Technology and Medical Practice
PART 3 LINKING BODIES AND MACHINES
7 emotion Work, abjection and electronic Foetal Monitoring 145
Petra Jonvallen
8 incorporating Machines into laboratory Work: concepts of
humanness and Machineness 161
Corinna Kruse
9 (dis)connecting Bodies: Blood donation and Technical change,
Sweden 1915–1950 179
Boel Berner
epilogue: Moving nature/culture 203
Lucy Suchman
Index 209
list of Figures
1.1 environmental hits 17
6.1 The pelvic simulator 128
9.1 Jeanbrau’s method: blood-letting in 1928 183
9.2 oehlecker’s method 184
9.3 oehlecker’s method, two versions 187
9.4 Blood transfusion with soda water bottle 196
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notes on contributors
Boel Berner is a professor at the department of Thematic Studies — Technology
and Social change, linköping University, Sweden. her research has involved
studies of technical knowledge and expertise in diverse areas, such as engineering
work, household technology, technical education and risk. She has also published
extensively on issues of gender and technology. current work concerns blood
transfusion practices, risk and citizenship. Her publications in English include the
edited volumes Gendered Practices (1997), almqvist and Wiksell international,
Manoeuvring in an Environment of Uncertainty (with Per Trulsson, 2000),
ashgate, and Constructing Risk and Safety in Technological Practice (with Jane
Summerton, 2003), routledge.
Dawn Goodwin is a lecturer in the School of health and Medicine at lancaster
University, UK. her research interests include collaborative work practices and
human-machine/material interactions in healthcare, and the imaging, visualization
and simulation technologies used in medical education. her recent work draws on
STS, ethnomethodology and medical sociology to study the practices of diagnostic
work. This has culminated in the publication of an edited collection, Buscher, M.,
goodwin, d. and Mesman, J. Ethnographies of Diagnostic Work: Dimensions of
transformative practice (in press), Palgrave Macmillan.
Ericka Johnson is a researcher at the division for Science and Technology
Studies, University of gothenburg, Sweden. her research has explored how the
gendered body is constructed in and by medical technologies. She is the author of
Situating Simulators. The integration of simulations in medical practice (2004),
arkiv förlag, and Dreaming of a Mail-Order Husband (2007), duke University
Press.
Petra Jonvallen is assistant professor at the department human Work Sciences
at luleå University of Technology, Sweden. her previous research has analysed
tensions between the pharmaceutical industry and health care services in the
realm of clinical trials, where she highlighted the relationships between the
biomedicalization of body weight and the production of obesity drugs. She
has published Testing Pills, Enacting Obesity. The work of localizing tools in a
clinical trial (2005), linköping University Press, and compliance revisited:
pharmaceutical drug trials in the era of the contract research organization, (2009),
Nursing Inquiry,16(3).