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In Chapter 3, Lindberg and Walter present a study of the introduction and use of a ‘hybrid operating room’ at a major Swedish hospital. Hybrid operating rooms are complex as they are both technology and knowledge intensive, and imply the collaboration of several disciplinary groups with different specializations and multiple understandings. Based on field material from an ethnographically inspired longitudinal study, the authors describe negotiations between the stubborn materiality of the table used in this particular room and the need to perform safe medical procedures, based on previous experiences gained in their separate practices. The table was translated into a multifunctional tool that brought about new types of flexibility, enabling as well as restricting what and how can be done in the hybrid room.
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Lindberg, K., Walter, L. (2018). One Table – Several Practices: Material Controversies in the Hybrid Operating Room. In: Hoholm, T., La Rocca, A., Aanestad, M. (eds) Controversies in Healthcare Innovation. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55780-3_3
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