Chapter 9 Operating Together: The Collective Achievement of Surgical Action
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| 1. | Title | Title of document | Chapter 9 Operating Together: The Collective Achievement of Surgical Action - Communication in Surgical Practice |
| 2. | Creator | Author's name, affiliation, country | Lorenza Mondada; University of Basel; Switzerland |
| 3. | Subject | Discipline(s) | Communication Studies; Linguistics |
| 4. | Subject | Keyword(s) | Surgery; social interaction; conversation analysis; ethnomethodology; situated practice request; directive; instruction; indexicality; coordination; collaboration; teamwork; praxeological context; visibility; video practice; multimodality; multimodal Gest |
| 5. | Subject | Subject classification | Sociolinguistics (CFB); Medical sociology (MBS); Medical ethics & professional conduct (MBDC) |
| 6. | Description | Abstract | The study of social interactions in medical work has primarily dealt with doctor-patient consultations in which the body is often talked about rather than actually manipulated. In surgery, the body itself is manipulated and radically transformed. By contrast, social interaction and detailed teamwork organization during operative surgery have been understudied. In this chapter, I first show how anatomy, or the surgical field as it is referred to by surgeons, is situated and collectively achieved during an operation, both through the way in which it is locally seen and interpreted, and also through the way the patient’s body is actually cut, dissected, cauterized, and repaired. Second, I show that surgical practice is an exemplary case of collaboration in which a team’s actions are timely, precise and coordinated. This paper deals with surgical practice as it is locally shaped within the course of an operation; it focuses on the way in which surgical action is temporally situated and interactively organized. In order to do that, the analyses are based on a substantial corpus of video recorded surgical operations, using open techniques as well as laparoscopic approaches. On this basis, the paper analyzes the systematic way in which surgeons coordinate their actions – in directives and requests concerning the management of instruments and of micro-actions responsible for the progression of the operation. |
| 7. | Publisher | Organizing agency, location | Equinox Publishing Ltd |
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| 9. | Date | (YYYY-MM-DD) | 15-Mar-2016 |
| 10. | Type | Status & genre | Peer-reviewed Article |
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| 12. | Format | File format | |
| 13. | Identifier | Uniform Resource Identifier | https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/26410 |
| 14. | Identifier | Digital Object Identifier | 10.1558/equinox.26410 |
| 15. | Source | Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) | Equinox eBooks Publishing; Communication in Surgical Practice |
| 16. | Language | English=en | en |
| 18. | Coverage | Geo-spatial location, chronological period, research sample (gender, age, etc.) |
international, contemporary |
| 19. | Rights | Copyright and permissions | Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd |