Bodies in Formation

Prentice, Rachel

doi:10.1215/9780822394907

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“…Her ethnographic material highlights the ambiguities around, and of, the donated body. Olejaz's contribution furthers and refines the arguments made by Prentice (2012) regarding the ontological thing-person duality with which students of medicine must grapple. Continuing the theme of cadaveric donation for medical education, Hallam explores the tangled relationship between body donation, dissection practices, and memorialisation in a British university anatomy department.…”

Section: The Thanatoregistermentioning

confidence: 76%

New immortalities: Death, donation, and dedication in the twenty-first century

Simpson¹,

Douglas-Jones²

2020

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Section: The Thanatoregistermentioning

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New immortalities: Death, donation, and dedication in the twenty-first century

Simpson¹,

Douglas-Jones²

2020

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“…Surgical expertise is difficult to grow quickly because surgical proficiency requires the combination of at least three forms of knowledge in the body of a single practitioner: the handwork skills of operating on particular tissues and structures, deep anatomical knowledge of the area of concern, and technical fluency of particular procedures. Surgical training is largely apprentice based; operating techniques, skills, and modes of apprehension are learned through direct observation and imitation, and through embodied practice in proximity to one's teachers (Prentice ; Schlich ). Complex procedures can be time consuming to learn, and the demand for in‐person learning means that they often spread slowly through networks of embodied expertise (Miller et al.…”

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A Capable Surgeon and a Willing Electrologist: Challenges to the Expansion of Transgender Surgical Care in the United States

Plemons

2019

Med Anthropol Q

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Since 2014, public and private insurance coverage for transgender Americans’ surgical care has increased exponentially. Training clinicians and equipping institutions to meet the surge in demand has not been as rapid. Through ethnographic research at a surgical workshop focused on trans‐ genital reconstruction and in a U.S. hospital working to grow its transgender health program, this article shows that effects of the decades‐long insurance exclusion of trans‐ surgery are not easily remedied through the recent event of its inclusion because patient access is not the only thing that has been restricted by coverage denial. Decades of excluding coverage for trans‐ genital reconstructive surgery have limited the development and circulation of technical skills required to perform these procedures, as well as the administrative processes needed to integrate them into existing clinical workflows. One surgeon estimates that turning expanded access into realized care is “a five or six‐year problem.”

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Surgical Identity Play: The Anatomy Lab Revisited

Vinson

2019

Symbolic Interaction

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The anatomy lab has been studied by sociologists interested in professional socialization since the 1950s. This is because the act of dissecting a cadaver is thought to be foundational for both the student's medical knowledge and the development of the student's professional identity. In this paper, I revisit the anatomy lab both historically and ethnographically. Drawing on theoretical insights from the laboratory ethnography tradition within science and technology studies, I show that students use material artifacts in the lab to support their "surgical identity play." This activity is structured by the laboratory's performative architecture even while it is unsupervised by anatomy faculty. While many analyses of professional socialization focus on how students learn to interact with patients during their training, I show that the anatomy lab experience is an important form of professional socialization because here students learn to employ surgical instruments, language, and dress, and begin to relate to each other as colleagues.

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Bodies in Formation

Cited by 49 publications

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New immortalities: Death, donation, and dedication in the twenty-first century

New immortalities: Death, donation, and dedication in the twenty-first century

A Capable Surgeon and a Willing Electrologist: Challenges to the Expansion of Transgender Surgical Care in the United States

Surgical Identity Play: The Anatomy Lab Revisited

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