Article outline

• 1.The biomedical model in emergency medicine: Cultural challenges and values
• 2.Case I: The social touch
  • 2.1The soothing effect of touch and emotional alignment: Patient-initiated touch
  • 2.2Emotions in a biomedical perspective
• 3.Case II: Re-enacting role hierarchies
  • 3.1Phase I: Making medical procedures meaningful
  • 3.2Phase II: Embodiment as an affordance for meaning
  • 3.3Phase III: Emergent changes in perspectives
  • 3.4Phase IV: Cultural dynamics in situated meaning-making
  • 3.5Phase V: The doctor and the nurse swop position
  • 3.6Phase VI-VII: Functionality and dysfunctionality in the dialogical system
  • 3.7Epilogue: On the poverty of phenomenal reports
• 4.Breaking down traditions
• Notes