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Title Ethnographies of diagnostic work : dimensions of transformative practice / edited by Monika Büscher, Dawn Goodwin and Jessica Mesman
Published Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 264 pages) : illustrations
Contents Diagnostic Work in Calls to a Technical Support Helpline / A. Firth -- Part III: Interventions -- Digital Material: Diagnostic Work in Software Development and Appropriation / M. Bscher -- Diagnosing and Acting upon Dementia: Marte Meo / I. Moser -- Tending the Interface: Producing Selves through Videoelectroencephalography / A. Choby -- Diagnosis at Work in Collaborative Actions / J. Mesman -- Conclusion / M. Bscher, D, Goodwin, J. Mesman
Summary Ethnographies of Diagnostic Work explores social and material practices of diagnosis in diverse contexts, from healthcare to railway maintenance, contributing novel conceptual and methodological resources to the search for more desirable futures in our 'diagnostic times'. With increasingly pervasive (technologically augmented) diagnostic powers doctors, the police, mechanics, but also public service workers and many others, are able to detect troubles early, along the way introducing burdens of accounting to facilitate bureaucratic diagnosis of performance, difficulties in managing the status and implications of diagnostic knowledge, and in negotiating responsibilities for action. With rich descriptions of real world practices and creative analytical perspectives brought by researchers who are often actively engaged in innovation, this book gives definition to an emergent 'new view of diagnosis' that is relevant to a range of different fields, from medicine to human factors to design and policy, highlighting transformative dimensions of practice and exploring the potential of engaged research to inform innovation
"This book explores ethnographic studies of diagnostic work in diverse settings. Switching attention from product (diagnosis) to process (diagnosing), it reveals the importance of collaborative, socio-material, technologically augmented practices, exploring the potential of the multi-disciplinary studies presented to inform innovation"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Diagnosis -- Cross-cultural studies
Decision making -- Cross-cultural studies
Diagnosis.
Cross-cultural studies.
Decision making.
Diagnosis
Cross-Cultural Comparison
Decision Making
diagnosis.
decision making.
MEDICAL -- Diagnosis.
MEDICAL -- Laboratory Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Nursing -- Assessment & Diagnosis.
Cross-cultural studies
Decision making
Diagnosis
diagnostic -- études diverses.
diagnostic (médecine) -- études diverses.
Genre/Form Cross-cultural studies
Form Electronic book
Author Büscher, Monika, 1964-
Goodwin, Dawn
Mesman, Jessica, 1962-
ISBN 9780230296930
0230296939
9781349308477
1349308471