Dissecting Surgery: Forms of Life Depersonalized

摘要: When surgeons drape human bodies in green or blue cloths, when they erect a barrier between their eyes and the patient's face, narrow gaze to that small portion of body into which scalpel is penetrate, surround activities with antiseptic walls, what are doing? Are `objectifying' `depersonalizing' body? How might one tell? What method use find out? such claim mean? This paper explores these methodological philosophical issues, comparing surgery other assaults on variety contexts. The conclusion existing treatments problem fail understand surgeon's world as routine. Much drama ritual analysts read operating theatre results from transference naive observer's viewpoint surgeon.