From 'human being' to 'social subject': 'unfreezing' ergonomics and the implications for understanding and intervening health-disease process.
Ergonomics has been successful in increasing productivity and comfort in the work arena. It has also contributed to reducing occupational accidents. Despite this, ergonomics is frequently limited to understanding the health-disease process related to human-technology interactions, as this process is...
| Publicado en: | Work Vol. 41; pp. 3101 - 3109 |
|---|---|
| Autores principales: | , , , |
| Formato: | Journal Article |
| Publicado: |
Sage Publications Inc.
2012 Supplement
|
| Acceso en línea: | Ver este registro en EBSCOhost |
| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=104522855&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 104522855 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 10519815 3RC jtl: Work issn: 10519815 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: 2012 Supplement vid: 41 pid: 344 pub: Sage Publications Inc. place: Thousand Oaks, California artinfo: ui: 104522855 2011465551 104522855 ppf: 3101 ppct: 8 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P tig: atl: From 'human being' to 'social subject': 'unfreezing' ergonomics and the implications for understanding and intervening health-disease process. aug: au: Soares, Marcelo M. Jacobs, Karen Morales, Karen Lange García-Acosta, Gabriel affil: MIMAPRO Research Group - School of Industrial Design, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Ciudad Universitaria, Edif. 303 - Of 316, Bogotá, Colombia; Institute of Ergonomics, Darmstadt University of Technology, Petersenstrasse 30, D-64287, Darmstadt, Germany sug: subj: Ergonomics History Work Environment Psychosocial Factors Occupational Diseases Etiology Social Behavior Occupational Health Psychosocial Factors Concept Analysis Reflection Epistemology Productivity Technology Organizational Structure Organizational Culture Empowerment ab: Ergonomics has been successful in increasing productivity and comfort in the work arena. It has also contributed to reducing occupational accidents. Despite this, ergonomics is frequently limited to understanding the health-disease process related to human-technology interactions, as this process is more complex than what can be understood from an ergonomic evaluation. Recognising this limit, this work ontologically and epistemologically contrasts the notions of 'human being' and 'social subject', and concludes that the study object of ergonomics, or human-technology interaction, greatly depends on social aspects that nowadays are not tackled explicitly: route (history), project, structure, agency, motivations and power. It also analyses how participatory ergonomics tacitly includes many of these aspects, including some implications that the change of notion, from 'human being' to 'social subject', brings to the understanding of the health-disease process and the reduction of associated risks during human activities. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
|---|