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TY - JOUR
T1 - Upsetting the order of teamwork: is ‘the same way every time’ a good aspiration?
AU - Goodwin, Dawn
PY - 2007/4
Y1 - 2007/4
N2 - In this article I examine the spatial dimensions of the workplace, the arrangement of material resources, and the development of embodied knowledge. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork of anaesthetic practice, I show how the accomplishment of anaesthetic techniques depends on the precise alignment of practitioners' bodies, tools, and the patient's body. By exploring disruptions to customary configurations of teamwork I explore the utility of these arrangements. I show how practitioners actively contrive 'normal appearances' in order to ensure safe and proficient practice, but I suggest that disruptions function as learning opportunities vital to the development of expertise.
AB - In this article I examine the spatial dimensions of the workplace, the arrangement of material resources, and the development of embodied knowledge. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork of anaesthetic practice, I show how the accomplishment of anaesthetic techniques depends on the precise alignment of practitioners' bodies, tools, and the patient's body. By exploring disruptions to customary configurations of teamwork I explore the utility of these arrangements. I show how practitioners actively contrive 'normal appearances' in order to ensure safe and proficient practice, but I suggest that disruptions function as learning opportunities vital to the development of expertise.
KW - embodied knowledge • spatial configurations • teamwork • techniques • tools and devices
U2 - 10.1177/0038038507074973
DO - 10.1177/0038038507074973
M3 - Journal article
VL - 41
SP - 259
EP - 275
JO - Sociology
JF - Sociology
SN - 1469-8684
IS - 2
ER -