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The Epistemic Use of the Body in Medical Radiology: Insights from Interactional Video-Ethnography

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In this chapter, we reflect on the specific instructional practices that emerge when newcomers in medical radiology gain access to such technical skills in the conditions of practice, under the guidance of experienced workers endorsing the role of mentors. The chapter aims at understanding how participants may use the patient’s body as resources to navigate complex constraints associated with work procedures and epistemic practices. To do so, we adopt the theoretical perspective of multimodal interaction analysis and we use a collection of audio-video data recorded in a public hospital of the canton Geneva in Switzerland. Video recordings inform naturally occurring work and training practices as they take place during internships in a conventional radiology service.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    This data was collected as part of the research programme entitled “Becoming a medical radiologic technologist”, under the responsibility of Prof. Marc Durand, Germain Poizat and Laurence Seferdjeli, and sponsored by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF).

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    The transcription conventions are listed in the Appendix.

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  1. University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

    Laurent Filliettaz

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    Frédérik Matte

Appendix: Transcription Conventions

Appendix: Transcription Conventions

/ \:

rising and falling intonation

°xxx°°:

decrease in voice volume

+xxx++:

increase in voice volume

[:

overlapping talk

(.):

micro-pause

(2.1):

pauses in seconds

XXX:

inaudible segment

exTRA:

accentuated segment

((pointing)):

non-verbal behaviour

STU >:

direct address to designated recipient

[#1]:

location of the image in the transcript

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Filliettaz, L. (2021). The Epistemic Use of the Body in Medical Radiology: Insights from Interactional Video-Ethnography. In: Grosjean, S., Matte, F. (eds) Organizational Video-Ethnography Revisited. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65551-8_3

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