In this chapter, we want to create a “space for place”(Gieryn, 2000) in health care
management by analyzing the role that spatial arrangements, and especially re-placements …

The purpose of the article is to elaborate on the scholarly debate on affect. We consider the
site of affect to be the activities of embodied, socioculturally and spatially situated …

Diagnoses are inherently social realities, linking the individual and the social system, while
also being actors that “configure and reconfigure the lives of real men and …

When faced with anything out of the ordinary, faulty or suspicious, the work of determining
and categorizing the trouble, and scoping for what to do about it (if anything) often go hand …

Digital health occupies an increasingly important role within the context of managing risk
and safety in pregnancy. Women routinely use websites, mobile phone apps and social …

In this article, I propose to take a closer look at the practices of kinning in the context of
adoption in contemporary Poland. I am interested in the social production of this 'unfamiliar …

Diagnostic work is the reflexive work of figuring out what issues are at stake and determining
the scope for action. This work is not generally accommodated by evidence-based …

The present study examines the work of a group of medical scientists as they identify
interpretative 'pitfalls'–recurrent sources of error–in the use of a new radiographic technique …

Major electricity breakdowns like the Northeast Blackout (USA) in 2003 or the blackout in
most parts of Western Europe in 2005, have shown the fundamental role of electricity in our …

Patient safety is an increasing concern for health systems internationally. The majority of
administrative work in UK general practice takes place in the context of organisational …