Call for Papers aus dem Fachgebiet zur Medical Anthropology Europe Conference 2025!
Wie verändert die Digitalisierung das „Tinkering“ in der medizinischen Versorgung? Welche neuen Rollen übernehmen Patient:innen und Fachkräfte in einem zunehmend technologiegestützten Gesundheitswesen?
Unser Panel “Tinkering Revisited: Digitalization and Agency in the Healthcare Sector of the Future” lädt dazu ein, diese Fragen zu diskutieren! Wir suchen spannende Paper-Beiträge für die Medical Anthropology Europe Conference (16.–19. September in Wien).
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*Tinkering Revisited: Digitalization and Agency in the Healthcare Sector of the Future*
Maren Heibges, Markus A. Feufel, Christine Schmid
The concept of “tinkering”, as introduced by Mol, describes care practices in medical settings where practitioners continuously adjust treatments based on patient responses and evolving conditions. It emphasizes the adaptive nature of healthcare, where practitioners creatively engage with the complexities of bodies and diseases. From the original concept, we understand that tinkering is integral to good care. But how does the increasing digitalization of healthcare reshape these practices?
Our panel will revisit tinkering in the age of digital health, examining the implications that arise when patients and their caregivers become increasingly “humans-in-the-loop,” intertwined with digital innovations in the healthcare process. Whilst doing this, we also want to ponder the potential ambiguities of tinkering. Specifically, we will examine what happens to the improvisational essence of tinkering if care processes become more technologically driven, whether digital technologies “tame” or “proliferate” tinkering, and when these developments might be detrimental or desirable for good care. Moreover, we aim to investigate how traditional roles and responsibilities of nurses, doctors and also patients may change in novel tinkering practices. To do so, we use the concept of tinkering not in strict textual exegesis, but as a flexible framework. By doing so we hope to effectively analyze the situated specificities of healthcare practices in transition with respect to various digital tools and in a diverse array of medical settings.
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