"幻觉":医院生态在COVID的系统性不稳定中
Scott Stonington1, Roi Livne2, Zoe Boudart2
1University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA. sdstony@umich.edu.
Culture, medicine and psychiatry
|September 28, 2023
概括
在COVID-19大流行期间,由恐惧和社交媒体驱动的不稳定的医学知识导致了快速的实践变化. 这导致了病毒颗粒的"幻觉",突出了医疗保健环境的不稳定性.
科学领域:
- 医学人类学 医学人类学
- 科学社会学科学社会学
- 医学史 医学史 的历史
背景情况:
- 生物医学传统上被视为一个现代主义的项目,专注于积累稳定的知识.
- 随着COVID-19的流行,美国医院的既定结构受到严重破坏.
- 临床医生因新型疾病和信息过载而面临前所未有的不稳定.
研究的目的:
- 分析COVID-19大流行期间生物医学知识结构的崩.
- 描述在极端不稳定的条件下出现的新型知识和医疗实践.
- 探索这种不稳定的影响,以了解医疗保健环境.
主要方法:
- 历史和民族学数据的定性分析.
- 检查临床医生的经验和信息搜索行为.
- 将新兴的知识实践概念化为"幻觉".
主要成果:
- 生物医学知识结构在流行病压力下崩.
- 临床医生依靠来自社交媒体的快速变化的,矛盾的信息.
- 病毒颗粒的"幻觉"出现,其特点是超现实性和不稳定性.
- 医疗实践以不断变化的信息为基础,每分钟都在变化.
结论:
- 疫情暴露了看似稳定的生物医学知识的脆弱性.
- "幻觉"代表了对极端不确定性和信息流动的独特反应.
- 这项研究揭示了不稳定如何重塑关键环境中的知识和实践.
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