TY - JOUR
T1 - Cultivating doctors’ gut feeling
T2 - Experience, temporality and politics of gut-feelings in family medicine
AU - Kristensen, Benedikte Møller
AU - Andersen, Rikke Sand
AU - Nicholson, Brian
AU - Ziebland, Sue
AU - Smith, Claire Friedemann
PY - 2022/6
Y1 - 2022/6
N2 - For the past decade, within family medicine there has been a focus on cultivating doctors gut feelings as ‘a way of knowing’ in cancer diagnostics. In this paper, building on interviews with family doctors in Oxford shire, UK we explore the embodied and temporal dimensions of clinical reasoning and how the cultivation of doctors’ gut feelings is related to hierarchies of medical knowledge, professional training, and doctors’ fears of litigation. Also, we suggest that the introduction of gut feeling in clinical practice is an attempt to develop a theory of clinical reasoning that fits the biopolitics of our contemporary. The turn towards predictive medicine and the values introduced by accelerated diagnostic regimes, we conclude, introduce a need for situated and embodied modes of reading bodies. We contribute theoretically by framing our analysis within a sensorial anthropology approach.
AB - For the past decade, within family medicine there has been a focus on cultivating doctors gut feelings as ‘a way of knowing’ in cancer diagnostics. In this paper, building on interviews with family doctors in Oxford shire, UK we explore the embodied and temporal dimensions of clinical reasoning and how the cultivation of doctors’ gut feelings is related to hierarchies of medical knowledge, professional training, and doctors’ fears of litigation. Also, we suggest that the introduction of gut feeling in clinical practice is an attempt to develop a theory of clinical reasoning that fits the biopolitics of our contemporary. The turn towards predictive medicine and the values introduced by accelerated diagnostic regimes, we conclude, introduce a need for situated and embodied modes of reading bodies. We contribute theoretically by framing our analysis within a sensorial anthropology approach.
KW - Clinical reasoning
KW - Gut feeling
KW - Place
KW - Politics
KW - Temporality
U2 - 10.1007/s11013-021-09736-3
DO - 10.1007/s11013-021-09736-3
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 34564779
VL - 46
SP - 564
EP - 581
JO - Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry
JF - Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry
SN - 0165-005X
IS - 2
ER -