Ontological Futurgical
Ontological choreography is not only sociological and psychological, but also situational. Medical students and surgeons practice the ontological choreography bases on their social environment that medical students usually prepare themselves through the laboratory, and surgeons prepare themselves through the operating room. Medical students and surgeons need to be able to shift from objectification to cadavers or patients’ personhood, or from personhood to objectification; those shifting is psychological. Also, medical students and surgeons are able to shifting from objectification and personhood base on the situation. Dr. Anna Wilson described a hand surgery she had before, that the patient insisted to use local anesthetic instead of general
anesthetic, and the patient wiggled his arm with conscious that makes the surgery difficult to be continued; by this situation, Dr. Anna used language “borrow his arm” to objectifying patients’ arm and alienated from patients’ body, also she made patient felt he has ownership with the arm (as cited in Prentice, 2013, “Person and Thing in the Operating Room”, para. 2).
anesthetic, and the patient wiggled his arm with conscious that makes the surgery difficult to be continued; by this situation, Dr. Anna used language “borrow his arm” to objectifying patients’ arm and alienated from patients’ body, also she made patient felt he has ownership with the arm (as cited in Prentice, 2013, “Person and Thing in the Operating Room”, para. 2).