Fischer, Michael and McGivern, Gerry (2016) Affective overflows in clinical riskwork. In: Power, Michael, (ed.) Riskwork. Oxford : Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198753223

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Abstract

The terms ‘clinical’ and ‘risk management’ are commonly associated with rational detachment and cold, objective calculation, emotionally removed from the subjective experience of dealing with sickness, injury and death. In contrast, we suggest that emotion and affect are integral to the work of managing clinical risk, often involving the intimate handling of human subjects and their embodied subjectivities. Dominant ideals of clinical risk management obscure these emotional-affective dimensions and what we describe below as ‘affective overflows’ in the ‘heat’ of day-to-day risk management (Dolan & Doyle, 2000; Godin, 2004; Hirschhorn, 1999). In day-to-day clinical practices emotions are materially entangled with the micro-technologies and devices of risk management, in its routine practices, habits and scripts (Fischer & Ferlie, 2013; Power, 2011). Indeed, these practices reveal an informal and more ‘indigenous’ practice of clinical ‘risk work’, in which risk technologies and devices are tactically deployed, refashioned or undermined (Fischer, 2012; McGivern & Ferlie, 2007; McGivern & Fischer, 2010; 2012; Nicolini et al., 2011; Waring, 2005).

Item Type:	Book Item
Subjects:	R Medicine > R Medicine (General)
Divisions:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Medical protocols, Medicine -- Risk management, Emotions, Affect (Psychology)
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:	Oxford
ISBN:	9780198753223
Book Title:	Riskwork
Editor:	Power, Michael
Official Date:	15 September 2016
Dates:	Date Event 15 September 2016 Published
Status:	Not Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Date of first compliant deposit:	7 November 2016
Date of first compliant Open Access:	15 September 2018
Related URLs:	Other

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