Watch "Rhetorical Body Work in Health Care: Embodied Communication and Technological Mediation”

The Center for Nursing Philosophy was honored to sponsor a virtual presentation titled “Rhetorical Body Work in Health Care: Embodied Communication and Technological Mediation” on Thursday April 28, 2022.
Lilly Campbell, assistant professor of English at Marquette University, introduced the sociological concept of “body work,” which encompasses physical interaction with patients’ bodies, emotional work, and the effects of physical work on the provider’s body. She drew on two examples from recent ethnographic research-high-fidelity clinical simulations in a baccalaureate nursing program and nurses working in a virtual intensive care unit at an academic medical center- to discuss the following questions:
How does technological mediation of bodily cues change the work of patient care?
In what ways do the gendered and racialized biases associated with body work transform in new technological contexts?
There was a lively Q&A period and participants commented on the significance and applicability of concepts for nursing practice and scholarship.
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Unfortunately, my interest waned on when I heard "You can see a student wiping away a robot's tear in that photo, and he did have real tears". It is erroneous to assert or assume that a simulated body is anything like the body of another person. This is ultimately an ontological issue as the mannequin is and can be made an object. In contrast, one's own body does not take the same ontological shape as a thing. Its object status is quickly lost when we realize that we have knowledge of it from within. The pulse and the tear of the mannequin then, can not be considered real. It's clear that students pick up on this. The voice through the speaker in the mannequin, knowing that there is a body which transcends the otologic on the other side of it, draws us towards it. We must recognize that this is an abstraction from the real situation and this abstraction is what the body is drawn towards, precisely because its isolated abstraction appears most real to the body in the situation. Without a person, the situation is incomplete, and as such it is nonsensical to think that abstractions from it can be considered real or even stimulatory. Henri Bergson wrote a few good books about why this kind of "thinging" is the basis for all comedy. Scientifically speaking, this was an interesting presentation.
Thank you