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:: Christa B. Teston, Rowan University | 19 March 2010 ::
[ From Artifact to Action ] The Role of Medical Images in Cancer Care
Deliberations
[ Q’s ]How is risk
communicated?
How is evidence displayed?
How are decisions made?
[ Tufte (1992) :: Cholera ]
[ Tufte (1992) :: Challenger ]
[ Sauer (2003) :: Coal Mining ]
[ Herndl, Fennel, Miller (1991) :: Nuclear Power ]
[ site ]multidisciplinary medical workplace
Tumor Board meeting
[ methods ]Glaser & Strauss (1967)
Grounded Theory
Observational Heuristics
[ Q ]How is medical decision-making shaped by visual renderings of disease?
[ Fig. 1 ]
[ example ]1 tumor board deliberative
trace
5 10 15 20 25 30
Past Personal
Experience
Typical Practice
Standard of Care
Studies & Statistics
Path. & Rad.
Information
Background
Information
Passage of Time (minutes)
Kin
ds
of
Refe
ren
ces
? ?
“Seeing those images will
change minds.”:: Dr. Thomas | TB participant, oncologist ::
[ Fig. 2 ]
[ medical images ]materially rendered,
argumentatively deployed,
facilitate future action
[ visual rhetoric ]more than mere illustration,
epistemic in an ontological sense---
(Enos & Lauer, 1992; Scott, 1967; McNely & Teston, 2010)
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