Beyond Information

Intimate Relations in Sociotechnical Practice

Bibliographic Data

ID2321885
AuthorsMaggie Mort (0000-0003-0188-324X, Lancaster University, corresponding author), Andrew F Smith (0000-0001-7952-7881, Royal Lancaster Infirmary, corresponding author), Andrew Smith (0000-0001-6541-6187, Royal Lancaster Infirmary), Andrew P Smith (0000-0001-8805-8028, Royal Lancaster Infirmary)
Year2009
Volume43
Issue2
Pages215-231
Publication date2009-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0038-0385 • E-ISSN: 1469-8684
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0038038508101162
OpenAlexW1992018825
LanguageEN
Citations received19
References cited32

More and faster information will transform our experience of healthcare, according to policymakers, while social theorists have argued that medicine has become 'informatized': a new medical paradigm is being shaped. We question both the policy-led conflation of 'information' and 'healthcare' and ideas about the extent of the informatization of medicine, by exploring how these ideas resonate in medical work, revisiting our studies of expertise in two clinical domains where information technologies are central to practice. The projection of new information programmes as creating knowledge which is independent of space and time runs the risk of devaluing the experiential, haptic and affective knowledge of both apprentices and practitioners. Information, we argue, cannot underpin medicine unless it is recognized and defined as generative, dynamic and intimate, rather than storable and deliverable

Conflation · Engineering ethics · Epistemology · Experiential knowledge · Experiential learning · Health care · Information space · Informatization · Knowledge management · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Sociotechnical system · Space (punctuation) · Computer Science · Education, Healthcare and Sociology Research · Information Systems Theories and Implementation

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