Venturing Inside the Body
Transformative Experiences of Pain, Anatomy and Age among Danish Patients Undergoing Awake Arthroscopic Surgery
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4975772 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Simone Grytter (0000-0003-2340-4051, University of Copenhagen, corresponding author), Anja M B Jensen (0000-0002-2405-6012, University of Copenhagen) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 90-104 |
| Publication date | 2023-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Medical Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0145-9740 • E-ISSN: 1545-5882 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01459740.2022.2132390 |
| PMID | 36282947 |
| OpenAlex | W4307336182 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 35 |
When patients who undergo awake arthroscopic surgery follow the surgery on a screen, medical image technologies enable a rare look inside one's own body. Based on ethnographic fieldwork at an orthopedic surgery unit in Denmark, we investigate how patients experience their bodies during surgery. Patients see surgery as proof of their pain, experience an anatomical re-categorization, and contemplate the decay of the aging body. We argue that awake arthroscopic surgery constitutes a liminal setting transforming patients' perceptions of their body and their sufferings. Furthermore, we discuss how awake arthroscopic surgery can be understood as a frame for producing new realities. It constitutes a particular way of seeing and understanding that highlights the seductiveness of the visual as an objective carrier of truth and reminds us to remain critical toward the power of certain frames of knowledge production in medical settings
Danish · Developmental psychology · General surgery · Physical therapy · Transformative learning · Cultural, Psychoanalytic, and Sociopolitical Reflections · Empathy and Medical Education · Innovations in Medical Education · Medicine · Philosophy · Psychology · Surgery
Suffering and Sentiment
Embodiment and experience
The Birth of the Clinic
Haunting Images
Bodies in Formation
Skilled Visions
A cross-cultural theory of relics
The Manufacture of Bodies in Surgery
The Anatomy of a Surgical Simulation
Being Ethnographic
Frames of war
Drilling Surgeons
The power of the visible
Time, space and opportunity in the outpatient consultation
Surgical Teamwork and the Pragmatic Ethics of the Outcome
Surfacing the Body Interior
Organ Transplantation as a Transformative Experience
The Body Multiple
The Ritual Process
Sonography and Sociality
"How's the Baby Doing?" Struggling with Narratives of Progress in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Thematic networks
Operating (for) legitimacy
Plastic Paradise
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |