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Rescaling the Patient: The Diagnosis of Sleep-Related Problems in the Sleep Laboratory
Den Patienten reskalieren: Zur Diagnose schlafbezogener Probleme im Schlaflabor
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Abstract The sleep laboratory has become the key site for the study and clinical diagnosis of sleep disorders, with polysomnography (PSG) being the analytical procedure of choice. In this article we argue that, first, during the overall process of being diagnosed at the sleep laboratory, a constant "doing pa... mehr
The sleep laboratory has become the key site for the study and clinical diagnosis of sleep disorders, with polysomnography (PSG) being the analytical procedure of choice. In this article we argue that, first, during the overall process of being diagnosed at the sleep laboratory, a constant "doing patient" takes place. Second, we show how a constant "re-scaling" of the patient is performed. The patient shifts on a scale between personhood and a physical body, but without ever fully achieving either of these states. The art of successfully performing and creating the patient role collaboratively is precisely one of carefully navigating between these poles and rescaling the patient. With this in mind, we claim that the "body" and the "person" are not just constitutive and predefined entities, but processual units of construction through ongoing interactions. The rescaling of the patient is bound temporally to the (mini-)phases of the overall process of being diagnosed at the sleep laboratory and spatially to various settings within it. This rescaling also differs socially regarding interaction with the complementary roles of the hospital personnel. Even in situations that appear to reduce patients to bodily objects, there are strategies used that maintain the ascription of personhood, shield them against the impact of the loss of being a person, and facilitate the re-transformation of bodies into persons.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Labor; Diagnose; Schlaf; Körper; Patient
Klassifikation
Wissenschaftstheorie, Wissenschaftsphilosophie, Wissenschaftslogik, Ethik der Sozialwissenschaften
Wissenssoziologie
Freie Schlagwörter
sleep laboratory; polysomnography; PSG; obstructive sleep apnea; OSA; doing patient; bodification; person; rescaling
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2023
Seitenangabe
S. 41-62
Zeitschriftentitel
Historical Social Research, 48 (2023) 2
Heftthema
Sleep, Knowledge, Technology: Studies of the Sleep Lab, Sleep Tracking and Beyond
ISSN
0172-6404
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)