ABSTRACT

Medical schools are important nodes in the reproduction of medical knowledge, and an often-visited field site for medical anthropologists. To date, the spotlight has been on teachers, students and (simulated) patients. I broaden this focus to look at the practices of medical school secretaries, porters and other staff, investigating the embodied effects of their “invisible work.” Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork in a Dutch medical school, I mobilize the more multisensory term “shadow work” to understand how such practices become part of medical students’ future clinical practices through highlighting, isolating, and exaggerating, necessary elements of their medical education.

摘要

医学院是医学知识再生产的重要节点，也是医学人类学家经常到访的田野场所。迄今为止，焦点一直集中在教师、学生和（模拟）患者身上。我将这一焦点扩大到了医学院秘书、搬运工和其他工作人员的做法，调查了他们“隐形工作”的具体影响。借鉴荷兰医学院的民族志实地调查，我运用了更具多感官性的术语“影子工作”来理解这些实践如何通过强调、分离和夸大医学教育的必要要素，成为医学生未来临床实践的一部分。