Heath2020

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Heath2020
BibType INCOLLECTION
Key Heath2020
Author(s) Christian Heath, Paul Luff
Title Passing touch: Handing and handling tools and implements during surgical procedures
Editor(s) Asta Cekaite, Lorenza Mondada
Tag(s) EMCA, touch, Social interaction
Publisher Routledge
Year 2020
Language English
City London
Month
Journal
Volume
Number
Pages 249-268
URL Link
DOI 10.4324/9781003026631-11
ISBN
Organization
Institution
School
Type
Edition
Series
Howpublished
Book title Touch in Social Interaction: Touch, Language, and Body
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Abstract

Grasping, holding, and handling objects and implements are important features of many tasks within organisational environments. They enable tools and equipment to be deployed in appropriate and professionally relevant ways and inform how people coordinate their activities with each other. In this chapter, we explore the ways in which the appropriate exchange and handling of implements enables the collaborative accomplishment of specialised activities, namely surgical procedures. We focus on the ways in which tools and equipment are handed, in a timely and situationally relevant way, to the surgeon and how the surgeons are able to grasp implements to enable their immediate and unproblematic application. The analysis, drawing on video recordings and fieldwork, raises issues concerning the sequential organisation of action and interaction and the methodological challenges that arise when we take touch seriously. It also raises issues that resonate with contemporary developments in research on robotics and intelligent agents.

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