Bezemer-etal2019

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Bezemer-etal2019
BibType INCOLLECTION
Key Bezemer-etal2019
Author(s) Jef Bezemer, Ged Murtagh, Alexandra Cope
Title Inspecting objects: visibility manoeuvres in laparoscopic surgery
Editor(s) Elisabeth Reber, Cornelia Gerhardt
Tag(s) EMCA, Visibility, Surgery
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
Year 2019
Language English
City Cham
Month
Journal
Volume
Number
Pages 107–136
URL Link
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-97325-8_4
ISBN 978-3-319-97324-1
Organization
Institution
School
Type
Edition
Series
Howpublished
Book title Embodied Activities in Face-to-Face and Mediated Settings: Social Encounters in Time and Space
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Abstract

In this chapter we explore how surgeons perform inspections inside patients’ bodies prior to making invasive manoeuvres that could damage vital anatomical structures. Drawing on a video corpus of keyhole operations, we show that the inspections are characterised by a distinct set of visibility manoeuvres. We describe these non-invasive operations on anatomical structures as ‘transitive gestures’. Thus the chapter draws attention to the meaning potential of a common, yet hitherto undocumented type of practical-technical surgical action, and demonstrates the relevance of embodied activity as an object of inquiry in (health) communication research.

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