"You Can Learn Merely by Listening to the Way a Patient Walks through the Door": The Transmission of Sensory Medical Knowledge.

Examining the mechanisms of medical knowledge transfer, this article addresses the ways nonvisual senses are employed within medical training, asking about the role of sound, touch, and movement in transmitting knowledge of the body. Based on a 10-month ethnography in a medical massage training cour...

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Publicado en:Medical Anthropology Quarterly Vol. 32; no. 1; pp. 138 - 155
Autor principal: Hammer, Gili
Formato: journal article
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Mar2018
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