Illuminating Bodily Presence in Midwifery Practice
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Illuminating Bodily Presence in Midwifery Practice. / Nielsen, Stine Maria Louring; Bille, Mikkel; Barfoed, Anne Berlin.
In: Emotion, Space and Society, Vol. 37, 100720, 11.2020, p. 1-9.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Illuminating Bodily Presence in Midwifery Practice
AU - Nielsen, Stine Maria Louring
AU - Bille, Mikkel
AU - Barfoed, Anne Berlin
PY - 2020/11
Y1 - 2020/11
N2 - The article highlights the introduction of new coloured illumination technology in healthcare environments. Through sensory ethnographic fieldwork, the article showcases the cohesion and clashes between human bodies, hospital spaces and new sensory technologies, exemplified by a case of delivery rooms in Denmark. By addressing how midwives experience and practice lighting during the process of labour, we show how lighting technologies act as atmospheric elements and affect notions of intimacy and ‘being present’ in midwifery practice. The analysis points out a nuanced midwifery sensory awareness of how light not only shapes atmospheres in the delivery room, but also how these atmospheres attune the practices and gestures of human bodies. Through Hermann Schmitz's notion of ‘bodily gripping powers’, we thereby argue for a general attentiveness in healthcare design to how technologies and design affect bodily practices and employees' understanding of their profession. While health science has long showed the effects of lighting on the human body, now increasingly employed in healthcare design practices, the article argues for a broader attention to the interstices of technology and practices of professionals and patients in organizing how spaces are felt and bodies attuned.
AB - The article highlights the introduction of new coloured illumination technology in healthcare environments. Through sensory ethnographic fieldwork, the article showcases the cohesion and clashes between human bodies, hospital spaces and new sensory technologies, exemplified by a case of delivery rooms in Denmark. By addressing how midwives experience and practice lighting during the process of labour, we show how lighting technologies act as atmospheric elements and affect notions of intimacy and ‘being present’ in midwifery practice. The analysis points out a nuanced midwifery sensory awareness of how light not only shapes atmospheres in the delivery room, but also how these atmospheres attune the practices and gestures of human bodies. Through Hermann Schmitz's notion of ‘bodily gripping powers’, we thereby argue for a general attentiveness in healthcare design to how technologies and design affect bodily practices and employees' understanding of their profession. While health science has long showed the effects of lighting on the human body, now increasingly employed in healthcare design practices, the article argues for a broader attention to the interstices of technology and practices of professionals and patients in organizing how spaces are felt and bodies attuned.
U2 - 10.1016/j.emospa.2020.100720
DO - 10.1016/j.emospa.2020.100720
M3 - Journal article
VL - 37
SP - 1
EP - 9
JO - Emotion, Space and Society
JF - Emotion, Space and Society
SN - 1755-4586
M1 - 100720
ER -
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