Del Fabbro, Olivier and Muller, Xavier (2021) Skills, Scalpels and Robots: The Surgeon as Technician. Philosophy of Medicine, 2 (1). pp. 1-12. ISSN 2692-3963
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Abstract
According to Aristotle, medical practice relies on practical knowledge to care for individual patients. This is especially true for surgery, where the surgeon directly acts on a patient using not only technical skills but also acquired experience. We first describe the surgeon’s technical activity, which is directly linked to surgical tools and their historical evolution. Second, given that surgical activity aims at treating patients, we analyze which techniques and concurrent knowledge the surgeon must rely on to perform successful surgical operations. These characteristics are analyzed by using concepts from philosophy of technologies by André Leroi-Gourhan, Gilbert Simondon and John Dewey.
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| Keywords: | Medicine & Surgery Surgical & Technical Activity Surgical & Technical Invention Surgical & Technical Knowledge Evolution of Surgical Objects Surgical Skills | |||||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Medicine | |||||||||
| Depositing User: | Professor Alex Broadbent | |||||||||
| Date Deposited: | 06 Sep 2022 14:09 | |||||||||
| Last Modified: | 06 Sep 2022 14:09 | |||||||||
| Item ID: | 21131 | |||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Philosophy of Medicine | |||||||||
| Publisher: | University Library System, University of Pittsburgh | |||||||||
| Official URL: | https://philmed.pitt.edu/philmed/article/view/21 | |||||||||
| DOI or Unique Handle: | 10.5195/pom.2021.21 | |||||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Medicine | |||||||||
| Date: | 10 March 2021 | |||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 1-12 | |||||||||
| Volume: | 2 | |||||||||
| Number: | 1 | |||||||||
| ISSN: | 2692-3963 | |||||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/21131 |
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