Learning to produce, see, and say the (ab)normal: professional vision in ultrasound scanning during pregnancy
(2010) XVII International Sociological Association (ISA) World Congress of Sociology- Abstract
- 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... (More) - 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. (Less)
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- Sandell, Kerstin LU
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- 2010
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- Contribution to conference
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- published
- subject
- keywords
- ultrasound, normal, pathological, practice, medicine, midwives
- conference name
- XVII International Sociological Association (ISA) World Congress of Sociology
- conference location
- Gothenburg, Sweden
- conference dates
- 2010-07-11 - 2010-07-17
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- scopus:84900226726
- language
- English
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- yes
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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.}},
author = {{Sandell, Kerstin}},
keywords = {{ultrasound; normal; pathological; practice; medicine; midwives}},
language = {{eng}},
title = {{Learning to produce, see, and say the (ab)normal: professional vision in ultrasound scanning during pregnancy}},
year = {{2010}},
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