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Learning to produce, see, and say the (ab)normal: professional vision in ultrasound scanning during pregnancy

Författare

  • Kerstin Sandell

Summary, in English

This paper deals with midwives learning to do ultrasound scans in around week 17 of pregnancy and a central aspect of that learning: seeing and communicating the (ab)normal. It is an investigation into acquiring what Charles Goodwin refers to as a “professional vision” (1994) and into what that vision entails in terms of embodied skills. The focus is on “what we learn how to see” (Haraway 1991:190), or the structuring of embodied seeing in a medical practice.

The paper discusses the different parts of professional vision that Godwin points out: highlighting – in ultrasound that is the way in which deviances in the body of the foetus gets noticed by the midwives; coding – the way deviances are named; and material representations where the normal gets almost unrepresented but where there is a scopic focus on and interest in the deviant.

Publiceringsår

2010

Språk

Engelska

Dokumenttyp

Konferensbidrag

Ämne

  • Gender Studies

Nyckelord

  • ultrasound
  • normal
  • pathological
  • practice
  • medicine
  • midwives

Conference name

XVII International Sociological Association (ISA) World Congress of Sociology

Conference date

2010-07-11 - 2010-07-17

Conference place

Gothenburg, Sweden

Status

Published