Dissertation Grant: Medical Technologies and Social Identities

该项目将通过研究外科医生和患者如何使用手术来遵守和重新定义社会规范，来检查专业知识，技术和标准的交叉点。随着医疗技术的进步和身体概念的改变，本研究将记录在社会文化背景下通过选择性医疗程序进行个人身体修改的机制。这项研究将产生切实可行的策略，以改善患者和医生之间的沟通，并探讨市场和医疗保健系统在多元文化背景下的影响。该项目提出了在两个多元文化社区的手术人种学比较。通过系统观察整容手术诊所的临床遭遇以及对外科医生和患者的采访，该研究将调查外科医生和患者如何将特定的身体特征与群体身份联系起来，以及对社区，医疗保健系统和医疗实践的影响。 本研究将扩展（生物）医学分类和重新分类的理论化;医疗技术和社会中身体概念的变化。

This project will examine the intersection of expertise, technology, and standards through a study of how surgeons and patients are using surgery to conform to and to redefine social norms. With advances in medical technologies and changing conceptions of the body, this study will document mechanisms of individual bodily modifications through elective medical procedures within a social-cultural context. This study will yield practical strategies for improving communication between patients and doctors and to explore the effects of markets and healthcare systems in multi-cultural contexts. The project proposes an ethnographic comparison of surgery in two multicultural communities. Through systematic observations of clinical encounters in cosmetic surgery clinics and interviews with surgeons and patients, the study will investigate how surgeons and patients are relating specific physical features to group identities and what the implications are for communities, healthcare systems and medical practices. This study will extend theorization on classification and re-classification in (bio)medicine; and medical technologies and changing conceptions of the body in society.