"The Subway Series" A Joint Colloquium Between Harvard History of Science and MIT Program in Science, Technology, and Society
Cultivating Techniques and Ethics in the Operating Room Rachel Prentice, Cornell University Abstract: Surgery requires the application of violence to patient bodies in the interest of repair or healing. Surgical instructors take great care to ensure that their trainees learn to control their own bodies while practicing so that they do not harm the patient. Training can include direct manipulation of the trainee's hands, verbal instructions, and a flow of instructional stories, all intended to teach the trainee to embody control as a means of preventing harm. Although Hippocratic ethics rarely are discussed explicitly in clinical training, its principles become "techniques of the body" that trainees cultivate in the operating room. This talk examines how surgical trainees come to embody the Hippocratic charge to "do no harm." Monday, November 23, 2009 4pm Located in E51-095 at MIT
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