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    Patient-generated data as intervention into doctor-patient relationships?
    Health data generated by apps and devices are becoming increasingly popular and are expected to affect various aspects of doctor-patient relationships. No longer confined to medically authorised and certified health technologies, a range of biomedical data – from heart rate to blood pressure or oxygen saturation – are captured and processed by consumer health devices. In this article, we compare the practices of physicians and chronically ill patients of integrating, resisting, or neglecting data from popular consumer devices in clinical situations and consider how the data may challenge or reify a doctor’s medical authority. Our study is based on semi-structured interviews with doctors and chronically ill patients in Germany between 2021 and 2023. By contrasting cases from general practice, diabetology, sleep disorder, cardiology, and obesity, we explore when, how, and for what reasons different medical specialists and patients with different chronic illnesses consider patient-generated data (PGD) from consumer devices in clinical situations. While some resist PGD that seem to compete with their diagnostic activities, others incorporate the data more readily into their diagnostic practices. This suggests nuanced strategies for navigating the demarcation between expert and lay knowledge, whereby consumer data can either be ascribed health-relevant meaning or not.
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    Practice as a collective and knowledgeable doing
    This paper explores the relationship between knowledge and practice, knowledgeable practices, knowing in practice and knowledge as a situated activity. It traces a tradition of sociological thought in practice theories that derives from studies of scientifc knowledge and that challenges the conventional understanding of the ‘social’ as human-centred. The understanding of practice is grounded in an actor-network approach and in feminist Science and Technology Studies. In fact, the precursors of the empirical study of knowing in situ were the so-called laboratory studies, and section 1 presents their contributions to the study of knowledge practices. Later, section 2 proposes a post- humanist practice theory that joins other post-epistemologies in the project of decentring the human subject as the main source of action and moving from a formulation of practice theory as ‘humans and their practices’ to a vision of practice as the entanglement of humans, materialities, discourses, knowledges and any other relevant element in the situated activities. The aim of the paper is to interpret practice as an empirical phenomenon; therefore, sections 3, 4 and 5 illustrate the core assumptions: i) the sensory and elusive knowledges embedded in knowing in practice; ii) realities as enacted in practices; and iii) interdependent practices as woven in a texture of practices.
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    Vom Feld zum Labor und zurück
    Mitglieder des Siegener DFG-Graduiertenkollegs Locating Media betrachten das Verhältnis "Labor" und "Feld" aus der Sicht ihrer jeweiligen Dissertations- bzw. Habilitationsprojekte auf je verschiedene Weise: manchmal eng angelehnt an konkrete Feld- und Laborforschung, manchmal durch metaphorische Wendung der Grundfrage "Vom Feld zum Labor und zurück".
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