Moments of Rupture: The Importance of Affect in Medical Education and Surgical Training

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 to art...