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Technology and Medical PracTice Theory, Technology and Society Series editor: ross abbinnett, University of Birmingham, UK Theory, Technology and Society presents the latest work in social, cultural and political theory, which considers the impact of new technologies on social, economic and political relationships. central to the series are the elucidation of new theories of the humanity-technology relationship, the ethical implications of techno-scientific innovation, and the identification of unforeseen effects which are emerging from the techno-scientific organization of society. With particular interest in questions of gender relations, the body, virtuality, penality, work, aesthetics, urban space, surveillance, governance and the environment, the series encourages work that seeks to determine the nature of the social consequences that have followed the deployment of new technologies, investigate the increasingly complex relationship between ‘the human’ and ‘the technological’, or addresses the ethical and political questions arising from the constant transformation and manipulation of humanity. Other titles in this series contested categories life Sciences in Society Edited by Susanne Bauer and Ayo Wahlberg iSBn 978 0 7546 7618 8 The genome incorporated constructing Biodigital identity Kate O’Riordan iSBn 978 0 7546 7851 9 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 © ericka Johnson and Boel Berner 2010 all rights reserved. no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher. ericka Johnson and Boel Berner have asserted their right under the copyright, designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the editors of this work. Published by ashgate Publishing limited ashgate Publishing company Wey court east Suite 420 Union road 101 cherry Street Farnham Burlington Surrey, gU9 7PT VT 05401-4405 england USa www.ashgate.com British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data 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. 362.1’042-dc22 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data 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. iSBn 978-0-7546-7836-6 (hbk) -- iSBn 978-0-7546-9652-0 (e-book) 1. Medical technology--Social aspects. 2. Medical personnel and patient. 3. Social medi- cine. 4. Feminist theory. i. Johnson, ericka, 1973- ii. Berner, Boel. r855.3.T565 2009 610.28--dc22 2009033015 iSBn: 978-0-7546-7836-6 (hbk) iSBn: 978-0-7546-9652-0 (ebk) 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 This page has been left blank intentionally 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).
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