Gestalt descriptions embodiments and medical image interpretation

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In this paper I will argue that medical specialists interpret and diagnose through technological mediations like X-ray and fMRI images, and by actualizing embodied skills tacitly they are determining the identity of objects in the perceptual field. The initial phase of human interpretation of visual objects takes place during the moments of visual perception before we are consciously aware of the perceived. What facilitate this innate ability to interpret are experiences, learning and training that become humanly embodied skills. These embodied skills are actualized during the moments of visual perception. My argument is that biology, society and instruments constitute unique individual ontologies influencing specialist readings of the technological output, in other words, putting limits on the “truth-to-nature” relation, which is so much sought for in science.
Translated title of the contributionGestalt beskrivelser: legemliggørelser og medicinsk fortolkning
Original languageEnglish
JournalA I & Society
Volume32
Issue number2
Pages (from-to)209–218
Number of pages10
ISSN0951-5666
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - May 2017

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