Modernizing the flow of blood
Biomedical technicians, working knowledge and the transformation of Swedish blood centre practices
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 11923596 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Boel Berner (0000-0003-3542-4180, Linköping University, autor correspondente), Maria Björkman (0000-0001-9025-0537, Uppsala University) |
| Ano | 2017 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Fascículo | 4 |
| Páginas | 485-510 |
| Data de publicação | 2017-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Sim |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | Social Studies of Science (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0306-3127 • E-ISSN: 1460-3659 |
| Editora | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0306312717693464 |
| PMID | 28791925 |
| OpenAlex | W2593288314 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 4 |
| Referências citadas | 42 |
The early 1980s saw a 'paradigm change' in how donated blood was handled and used by blood centres, hospitals and pharmaceutical companies. In Sweden, a five-year state-financed R&D programme initiated a swift modernization process, an alleged 'revolution' of existing blood centre practices. In this article, we use interviews and archival material to analyse the role of female biomedical technicians in this rapid technical and organizational change. In focus is their working knowledge, or savoir-faire, of blood, instruments and techniques. We give a detailed analysis of technicians' embrained and embodied skills to create safety in blood and its representations, handle contingencies and invent new procedures and techniques. These transformations are analysed as sociomaterial entanglements, where the doing and undoing of gender, sociomaterial practices, hierarchies of authority and expertise, and emotions are intertwined
Embodied cognition · Engineering ethics · Epistemology · Modernization theory · Political science · Sociology · Undoing · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Blood donation and transfusion practices · Engineering · Law · Psychology · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
Bridging Epistemologies
White coats and no trousers
Materiality, Sociomateriality, and Socio-Technical Systems
Sorting Things Out
Rebooting and Rerouting
Towards a Topology of ‘Doing Gender’
The artist’s piece is already in the stone’
Making the Pap Smear into the `Right Tool' for the Job
Lab Hands’ and the ‘Scarlet O’
Standardization in Action
Doing and undoing gender in innovation
Embedded Altruism
Talking about machines
Unsettling care
Matters of care in technoscience
Knowledge, Knowledge Work and Organizations
The Art of Knowing
Working artefacts
The Power and the Pleasure? A Research Agenda for "Making Gender Stick" to Engineers
Missing Links in the History and Practice of Science
Let's Get Organised
The Existential Self in Society
Boundaries, Negotiation, Consciousness
Techniques to Identify Themes
The Context-Dependent Nature of the Gendering of Technical Work
Knowledge work
Working knowledge as performance
Undoing Gender
In the Backrooms of Science
The making of a risk object
| Obras citantes distintas | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citações por ano | 0,67 |
| Intervalo de citações | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Velocidade de citação | recent |
| Altamente citado | Não |
| Tipos de citação | Neutras: 4 |