Bezemer-etal2019
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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 |
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Pages | 107–136 |
URL | Link |
DOI | 10.1007/978-3-319-97325-8_4 |
ISBN | 978-3-319-97324-1 |
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Book title | Embodied Activities in Face-to-Face and Mediated Settings: Social Encounters in Time and Space |
Chapter | 4 |
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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