Evidencing the Experience of Seeing: A Case of Medical Reasoning in Surgical Operations
Evidencing the Experience of Seeing: A Case of Medical Reasoning in Surgical Operations

Summary/Abstract: Considerable attention has been paid to practices involving the visual perception and recognition of objects in both technological and non-technological environments (Coulter, Parsons 1991; Goodwin 1994; 2000a; 2000b; 2003; Goodwin, Goodwin 1996; Koschmann et al. 2011; Lynch 1988; Nishizaka 2011; 2013; 2014). In this paper, I will attempt to describe the ways in which the surgeons publicly see the anatomical object right in front of them in order to engage in medical reasoning (Patel et al. 2012) for all practical purposes (Garfinkel 1967). It has been noted that working in “multiple phenomenal scenes” (Goodwin 2003) surgeons have ways to coordinate their actions with others so as to accomplish multilayered complex activities of working on a human body (Koschmann, Zemel 2014; Koschmann et al. 2011; Koschmann et al. 2007; Mondada 2003; 2011).

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