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Firefighters and paramedics in Québec acquire a specific visual acuity, an expert practice of seeing. This expert practice is both an effective body technique for perceiving the signs and symptoms of patients and at the same time carrying a world view. Using ethnographic data, this article will focu...
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| Language: | fra |
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Société d'Anthropologie des Connaissances
2020-09-01
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| Series: | Revue d'anthropologie des connaissances |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/rac/10451 |
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| Summary: | Firefighters and paramedics in Québec acquire a specific visual acuity, an expert practice of seeing. This expert practice is both an effective body technique for perceiving the signs and symptoms of patients and at the same time carrying a world view. Using ethnographic data, this article will focus on this expert practice of seeing from two angles. First, we will analyze the acquisition of this body technique and its relevance in intervention, more particularly for the development of diagnostic hypotheses. Second, we will show how sensory perceptions and their memorization can be influenced by emergency contexts as well as by the slowness of non-urgent interventions and waiting periods between calls. We will conclude by taking a reflexive look at the perceptual transformations experienced as an anthropologist in the field. |
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| ISSN: | 1760-5393 |