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Medicine is a powerful symbol in human history and societies and it is difficult to distinguish its worldly properties, concerning daily functioning, actual capacities and contradictions, from the public image of expert knowledge to which we collectively delegate responsibility for our individual an...

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description Medicine is a powerful symbol in human history and societies and it is difficult to distinguish its worldly properties, concerning daily functioning, actual capacities and contradictions, from the public image of expert knowledge to which we collectively delegate responsibility for our individual and collective well-being. The book stems from the desire and need to explore what is ""behind the scenes"" of medicine, in that gray area that is daily care practices. What the patient, or the external observer, often sees is the limelight of medicine: the moment in which the therapeutic or diagnostic act takes place, when the clinical intervention becomes defined and tangible. To arrive at that final moment, a vast network of preparation, coordination and maintenance activities took place away from the eyes of the ""public"", a hidden web of processes and practices that make effective care possible. The aim of the volume is to bring to light these processes (often neglected by the scientific literature and the collective representations), through an investigation that refers to the theoretical reflections of some classics of the sociological tradition, such as Erving Goffman and Anselm Strauss, integrating them with more recent developments in the field of organizational and social studies on science and technology. The volume presents and discusses two ethnographic studies carried out in opposite social and health contexts: the hospital Intensive care unit and the Health district grappling with the implementation of social and health integration services. The first case represents the technical nucleus of the medical-health apparatus, in which, through an intricate ensemble of technologies, drugs, clinical devices and organizational and professional choices, medicine shows the greatest effectiveness in domesticating the biological body and human variability. On the contrary, social and health integration services try to contain the uncertainty and instability that accompanies treatment trajectories outside hospital settings. The choice of cases stems from the intention to show how, despite the significant differences in context, the background remains as the space in which medicine is built on a daily basis.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1478502024-11-14T04:28:39Z Dietro le quinte Lusardi, Roberto Invisible work; Medical practice; Back-scene in healthcare; Ethnography; Science and technology studies thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBS Medical sociology thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues Medicine is a powerful symbol in human history and societies and it is difficult to distinguish its worldly properties, concerning daily functioning, actual capacities and contradictions, from the public image of expert knowledge to which we collectively delegate responsibility for our individual and collective well-being. The book stems from the desire and need to explore what is ""behind the scenes"" of medicine, in that gray area that is daily care practices. What the patient, or the external observer, often sees is the limelight of medicine: the moment in which the therapeutic or diagnostic act takes place, when the clinical intervention becomes defined and tangible. To arrive at that final moment, a vast network of preparation, coordination and maintenance activities took place away from the eyes of the ""public"", a hidden web of processes and practices that make effective care possible. The aim of the volume is to bring to light these processes (often neglected by the scientific literature and the collective representations), through an investigation that refers to the theoretical reflections of some classics of the sociological tradition, such as Erving Goffman and Anselm Strauss, integrating them with more recent developments in the field of organizational and social studies on science and technology. The volume presents and discusses two ethnographic studies carried out in opposite social and health contexts: the hospital Intensive care unit and the Health district grappling with the implementation of social and health integration services. The first case represents the technical nucleus of the medical-health apparatus, in which, through an intricate ensemble of technologies, drugs, clinical devices and organizational and professional choices, medicine shows the greatest effectiveness in domesticating the biological body and human variability. On the contrary, social and health integration services try to contain the uncertainty and instability that accompanies treatment trajectories outside hospital settings. The choice of cases stems from the intention to show how, despite the significant differences in context, the background remains as the space in which medicine is built on a daily basis. 2024-11-14T04:28:37Z 2024-11-14T04:28:37Z 2024-11-13T10:06:45Z 2024 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/94567 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/147850 ita Benessere Tecnologia Società open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/94567/1/9788835168652.pdf FrancoAngeli 3b1e4403-b637-4268-a952-2280e4500b8a 153 Milan open access
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Dietro le quinte
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topic Invisible work; Medical practice; Back-scene in healthcare; Ethnography; Science and technology studies
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