Looking at the Echo: A Post-Phenomenological Investigation into the Lived Experience of the Transthoracic Echocardiogram.

本研究探讨了经胸超声心动图在患者体验和医疗接触中的作用。超声心动图是一种常规用于医疗保健的医学成像技术，2019年4月至5月期间，英国进行了近30万例超声心动图检查(布莱克，2020)，但关于这项技术对患者的生活体验和医疗接触的重要性和后果的研究很少。作为回应，本研究在对经胸超声心动图(TTE)的后现象学调查中，将地理书写与医学人文对话，协调了医学成像学术中两个未被研究的领域：活的和体验的体验，以及技术中介。通过采用一种创新的方法，能够探索三个中心主题-相遇、肉体现实和图像-这一博士学位将表明，TTE提供了一个独特的空间来参与对心灵、肉体现实、数字地理和相遇概念的理解-以及这些之间的关系。对TTE后果的调查将在学术领域对人-技术关系和患者体验产生影响，并在外部产生影响，在NHS心脏病部门和慈善机构内部。

This research investigates the role of the transthoracic echocardiogram in patient experience and the medical encounter. The echocardiogram is a medical imaging technology routinely used in healthcare, with nearly 300,000 performed in England between April and May 2019 (Blake, 2020), and yet there has been little research into the importance and consequence of this technology for the patient's lived experience and the medical encounter. Inresponse, this study brings geographical writing into conversation with the medical humanities in a post phenomenological investigation into the transthoracic echocardiogram (TTE), reconciling two under-examined areas in medical imaging scholarship: the lived and embodied experience, and technological mediation. By adopting an innovative methodological approach that enables an exploration of three central themes - encounter, corporeality and image - this PhD will show that the TTE offers a unique space to engage with understandings of the heart, corporeality, digital geographies and the concept of encounter - and the relations between these. This investigation into the consequences of the TTE will create impact in academic spheres on human-technology relations and patient experience, and externally, within NHS cardiology departments and charities.