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Identifying suitable candidates for DBS is a major challenge. For the PMDS clinical team this requires differentiating dystonia from other manifestations of neurological pathology. This chapter illustrates that to do this, the team relies on the body work of physiotherapists, specifically communicative body work and sensorial reflexivity. Such work requires the careful construction of an ensemble involving bodies, objects, and texts, and it is an important part of the innovation process. This chapter argues that the embodied knowledge of the clinician, in which a particular perspectival orientation to the world has been sedimented, is an important element of the PMDS proto-platform and platforms more generally. Such embodied knowledge contributes to the enactment of a broad clinical gaze.
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Gardner, J. (2017). Body Work and Space. In: Rethinking the Clinical Gaze. Health, Technology and Society. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53270-7_5
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