Nishizaka2020b
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| BibType | INCOLLECTION |
| Key | Nishizaka2020b |
| Author(s) | Aug Nishizaka |
| Title | Guided touch: The sequential organization of feeling a fetus in Japanese midwifery practices |
| Editor(s) | Asta Cekaite, Lorenza Mondada |
| Tag(s) | EMCA, Touch, Social interaction |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Year | 2020 |
| Language | English |
| City | London |
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| Pages | 224-248 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.4324/9781003026631-10 |
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| Book title | Touch in Social Interaction: Touch, Language, and Body |
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Abstract
In this chapter, I address a distinctive phenomenon observable in Japanese midwifery practices. Midwives sometimes guide a pregnant woman’s hands around her abdomen so that she, the pregnant woman, can feel a fetal body part. This guided touch is organized as specifically accountable and achieved as a process. The process is projectively organized and variously expandable. When the midwife cannot feel the target object via the pregnant woman’s hands that she touches, the current sequence may be expanded before the guided touch is adequately provided. When the midwife can feel the target object via the pregnant woman’s hands, but the pregnant woman may not discriminate it adequately, the sequence may be expanded after the pregnant woman acknowledges the midwife’s pointing out of the object. In conclusion, I discuss some consequences that the foregoing analyses have for interaction studies of perception and women’s medicine.
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