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From: "Stephanie Hazel-Gant" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 4:14 PM
Subject: FW: Ethnographies of Diagnostic Work
>> Ethnographies of diagnostic work
>> Lancaster University, Institute for Advanced Studies, 17-18 April
>> 2007-01-22 Call for Participation
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>>
>> The ability to notice trouble and see scope for remedial action is
>> crucial in many different contexts of work. Doctors, mechanics,
>> help-line operators, firefighters, experimental scientists, the
>> police, teachers, surveyors, computer programmers, and many other
>> professionals do it. Diagnoses are often both difficult to produce and
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>> hard to communicate. Although frequently conceived as a 'moment' of
>> cognition, diagnosis can also be seen as a material, collaborative
>> process involving expert skills, careful sensory and sensitive
>> engagement with human agencies (e.g. in medical consultations,
>> teaching or policing), and non-human agencies (e.g. physiological or
>> material 'actants', 'bugs' in computer code, etc.). Some activities
>> involve rational everyday knowledge, some demand 'scientific'
>> epistemic practices - e.g. measurement, experiment and intervention,
>> representations and calculations, and some also require other,
>> creative, emotional and intuitive ways of knowing. Diagnostic
>> practices are a pervasive and important feature of contemporary life.
>> They matter, not least because it is through diagnosing and diagnoses
>> that different perspectives - e.g. novices and experts, users,
>> developers and designers, patients and healthcare professionals -
>> meet. Diagnostic practices are integral to any move towards change. A
>> deeper and broader understanding of diagnosing practices is highly
>> desirable.
>>
> For more information please go to
> http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/centres/css/events/Ethnographiesworkshop.html
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