Self, agency and the surgical collective
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Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2265669 |
|---|---|
| Authors | T Moreira (0000-0002-6950-865X, Newcastle University, corresponding author), Tiago E Moreira |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 32-49 |
| Publication date | 2004-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociology of Health & Illness (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-9889 • E-ISSN: 1467-9566 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-9566.2004.00377.x |
| PMID | 15027989 |
| OpenAlex | W2011504270 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
| References cited | 35 |
In this article, I describe the socio-technical organisation of surgical rehabilitation. After having gone through surgical intervention, patients are implicated within various types of medical work aimed at adjusting their bodies to post-operative social and material environments. My argument is that the process of re-establishment of a 'self' is mediated through a re-disposition of agency in the socio-technical ensemble upon which the patient depends immediately after surgery. Drawing on one year of ethnographic fieldwork in a neurosurgical clinic, and theoretical resources from science and technology studies, this paper is an attempt to describe how, within surgical post-operative practices, the relational dynamics of social and material components endorsed within those practices may re-institute patients' sense of themselves, and re-organise their relationship with the world and other people. In surgery, the outcome of this dynamic process is the reorganisation of forms of agency for the patient. I will refer to this reorganisation as 'detachment'. It is my contention that this research may contribute to the literature on the experience of chronic illness by specifying the socio-technical conditions for the local achievement of self and agency
Agency (philosophy · Argument (complex analysis · Ethnography · Intervention (counseling · Outcome (game theory · Physical therapy · Political science · Process (computing · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Structure and agency · Work (physics · Engineering · Information Systems Theories and Implementation · Medicine · Mental Health and Patient Involvement · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Nursing · Psychology · Rehabilitation
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| Unique citing works | 19 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,9 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2024 (20) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 19 |