Will-ful Cyborgs? Producing Selves via VET

Alexandra Choby

Chapter 12 in Ethnographies of Diagnostic Work, 2010, pp 209-226 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract It is morning rounds, and I accompany Dr Willard, the attending, and Dr Baldwin, the epilepsy fellow, to patients’ rooms to talk about yesterday’s progress seen on Videoelectroencephalography (VET). We enter Leilani Henderson’s dimly lit room. The doctors think that a diagnosis of epilepsy is a real possibility, since she experienced a severe head injury during a motor vehicle accident. While driving all night on rural country roads, the patient fell asleep at the wheel and awoke in a ditch, confused, with a gash on her head and several broken bones.

Keywords: Moral Evaluation; Diagnostic Work; Morning Round; Modern Subjectivity; Diagnostic Team (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230296930_12

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