The stethoscope goes digital: Learning through attention, distraction and distortion

Melissa Van Drie, Anna Harris
2020 Gesnerus  
For centuries, those training doctors have been faced with the challenges of standardising subjective experiences and constructing "the universal body" in learning situations. Various technologies have been introduced to address these challenges, with varying degrees of success. In this article we focus on the stethoscope, specifi cally the electrical and digital stethoscope models. Historical and social studies of medicine have already underlined the sociomateriality of learning in medicine. In this article we underscore the per-
doi:10.24894/gesn-en.2020.77005 fatcat:tbsjv53gjfcb7bgkmnljuon2yy