SOC 2101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Intubation, Criminal Negligence

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2101
• Professor: Louise Chartrand

Document Summary

Between life and death: the anthropology of the ventilator. What comes and inform or give direction to the decision. Trajectory: refer not only to the physiological unfolding of a patient"s disease but to the total organization of work done over that course, plus the impact on those involved with that work and its organization. Can be completely different depending on what is happening and how things unfold. Something that is uncertain unfolds a lot of things. Cycle: parti(cid:272)ular (cid:272)hro(cid:374)ology of e(cid:448)e(cid:374)t that (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t (cid:271)e (cid:272)ha(cid:374)ge a(cid:374)d that is predi(cid:272)ta(cid:271)le. Getting sick, getting treatment, getting better is the cycle. What goes on during the cycle and what leads to the next stage is highly uncertain a(cid:374)d that"s (cid:449)he(cid:374) it (cid:271)e(cid:272)o(cid:373)es a traje(cid:272)tory. Repertoire: a repertoire involves a particular style of reasoning; as such it functions as a guiding principle that orders our ideas about what the world is and how it works.