Rediscovering radiology: New technologies and remedial action at the worksite
| Autor: | Sara Asplund, Magnus Båth, Jonas Ivarsson, Åse Allansdotter Johnsson, Hans Rystedt |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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Lung Diseases
History medicine.medical_specialty Emerging technologies Computer science General Social Sciences Social studies Tomosynthesis Session (web analytics) Visualization Ethnomethodology History and Philosophy of Science Image Processing Computer-Assisted medicine Medical imaging Imaging technology Humans Radiography Thoracic Radiology Tomography X-Ray Computed |
| Zdroj: | Social Studies of Science. 41:867-891 |
| ISSN: | 1460-3659 0306-3127 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0306312711423433 |
| Popis: | This study contributes to social studies of imaging and visualization practices within scientific and medical settings. The focus is on practices in radiology, which are bound up with visual records known as radiographs. The study addresses work following the introduction of a new imaging technology, tomosynthesis. Since it was a novel technology, there was limited knowledge of how to correctly analyse tomosynthesis images. To address this problem, a collective review session was arranged. The purpose of the present study was to uncover the practical work that took place during that session and to show how, and on what basis, new methods, interpretations and understandings were being generated. The analysis displays how the diagnostic work on patients’ bodies was grounded in two sets of technologically produced renderings. This shows how expertise is not simply a matter of providing correct explanations, but also involves discovery work in which visual renderings are made transparent. Furthermore, the results point to how the disciplinary knowledge is intertwined with timely actions, which in turn, partly rely on established practices of manipulating and comparing images. The embodied and situated reasoning that enabled radiologists to discern objects in the images thus display expertise as inherently practical and domain-specific. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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