[Sci-tech-public] Colloquium - November 23 with Rachel Prentice

[Bianca Singletary]

 "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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