1st Edition

Moments of Rupture: The Importance of Affect in Medical Education and Surgical Training Perspectives from Professional Learning and Philosophy

By A. O. Mahendran Copyright 2020
182 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

182 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

182 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Surgery is a craft specialty: ‘doing’ in response to what is seen, felt and anticipated.  The potent odours and the raw images of flesh, elicit strong sensations and responses in the here-and-now or ‘thisness’ (haecceities) of practice. These experiences, trigger a world of affects and senses that can disturb or rupture familiar or established ways of thinking and knowing. This book attempts... Read more

Part 1 Context and Theory  1. Introduction:  How are Events of Clinical Practice Encountered?  2. The Nature of Affect:  A Philosophical Approach  3. Exploring Experiences of Learning and Practice: Pedagogies of Encounter  Part 2 Representations of Clinical Practice: Ideologies, Complexities and Candour  4. Conceptions of Care and Caring: Complicated Procedures versus Complex Experiences  5. Negotiating and Coping with Complex Events of Practice and Difficult Conversations  Part 3 The Affective Conditions of Pedagogy and Practice  6. Beyond Pedagogical Aims: The Role of Subjectivity and Affect in Shaping the Reality of Surgical Training  7. Learner Identities: How is the Surgical Trainee Characterised and Regulated within Clinical Training Materials?  8. How Does the Structurisation of Medical Practice Enable and Control the Ways in which Practice is Lived and Realised?  Part 4 Encountering the Reality of Clinical Practice: Coping and Learning in Contingent Environments  9. Making Sense of ‘Messy’ Practice: Affective Dispositions, the Obligations of Practice and Processes of Mattering

Biography



A.O. Mahendran is senior lecturer and consultant transplant surgeon at Queen Mary University/Barts and the Royal London Medical School, where she is also programme director for the MSc. in Physician Associate Studies. She undertook her specialist surgical training in London and New York and completed a PhD in Education at Goldsmiths’, University of London. She was the 2018 Winner of the (BERA) British Educational Research Association Doctoral Thesis Award.