Acting in anaesthesia : ethnographic encounters with patients, practitioners and medical technologies / Dawn Goodwin.

Author/Creator:

Goodwin, Dawn.

Publication:

New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Series:

Learning in doing.
Learning in doing : social, cognitive, and computational perspectives

Format/Description:

Book
xi, 187 p. ; 24 cm.

Subjects:

Anesthesiology -- Practice.

Medical subjects:

Anesthesiology -- organization & administration.
Clinical Competence.
Interprofessional Relations.
Operating Rooms.
Patient Care Team.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-183) and index.

Local notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Albert E. Visk, W'28, Memorial Book Fund.

Contributor:

Albert E. Visk, W'28, Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

0521882060
9780521882064 (hardback)

OCLC:

263295083

Publisher Number:

99946307044

Web link:

The Albert E. Visk, W'28, Memorial Book Fund Home Page

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