Simulating Medical Patients and Practices : Bodies and the Construction of Valid Medical Simulators

• This article looks at how issues of validity and realism are addressed in the construction of medical simulators. In it, Karen Barad’s concepts of intra-action and agential reality are used to interrogate how the patient body is known and represented in medical simulators. This is done through an analysis of medical discussions about simulators and new research on the development of a pelvic simulator. The article shows that the concept of knowledge as constructed in specific medical practices is taken into account when designing, building and testing simulators even though rhetoric about valid simulators tends to suggest a concern for mimicking an ontologically pre-existing anatomy. Medical practice, and not the patient body, is reified in training simulators.

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SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Annan samhällsvetenskap -- Övrig annan samhällsvetenskap (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Other Social Sciences -- Other Social Sciences not elsewhere specified (hsv//eng)

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Annan samhällsvetenskap -- Genusstudier (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Other Social Sciences -- Gender Studies (hsv//eng)

MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP  -- Hälsovetenskap -- Hälso- och sjukvårdsorganisation, hälsopolitik och hälsoekonomi (hsv//swe)

MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES  -- Health Sciences -- Health Care Service and Management, Health Policy and Services and Health Economy (hsv//eng)

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simulators

validity

medical practice

body

intra-action

agential reality

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