Replacing and representing patients: Professional feelings and plastic body replicas in nursing education |
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| Affiliation: | 1. University of Arizona, P.O. Box 210076, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA;2. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 550 North Park Street, Madison, WI 53706, USA;1. The University of Northampton, Park Campus, Boughton Green Road, Northampton NN2 7AW, United Kingdom;2. The University of East London, Stratford Campus, Water Lane, London E15 4LZ, United Kingdom;1. School of Psychology, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, New Zealand;2. SHORE/Whariki Research Centre, Massey University, P.O. Box 6137, Wellesley Street, Auckland, New Zealand;1. Faculty of Pharmacy, The University of Sydney, NSW, Australia;2. Woolcock Institute of Medical Research, NSW, Australia;3. Faculty of Medicine, The University of Sydney, NSW, Australia;4. Department of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, NSW, Australia |
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| Abstract: | This article examines the intimate profession of nursing and the affective practices that bind bodies together into engagements that appear stable. However, once the bodies of patients are replaced with ‘plastic replicas’ for the purpose of clinical training within an educational setting, new affective relations emerge and underexplored aspects of professional engagements appear. Through theories of affectivity, I propose the notion of touchability as a theoretical device which focuses attention on the body and the sensory, affective and embodied vicissitudes that traverse it, while nonetheless attending to the difference between feeling patients and plastic. Sensuous ethnography is the method used for exploring these professional engagements. By engaging through bodily senses, I actively use bodies as tools of inquiry and sources of knowledge within nursing. I argue that the notion of touchability can illuminate how different bodies come to hold specific meanings and reveal distinct facets of a professional practice. |
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| Keywords: | Ethnography Affect Nursing education Simulation-based training |
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