We proposed to reflect on care and management practices within healthcare, by taking these to be well-dated social practices. Through placing ourselves at the intersection between the fields of education and healthcare, and, within these, in the field of studies on the body, we showed that healthcare practices comprise cultural pedagogies from which certain meanings and behaviors are prescribed, but also through which meanings and new practices that shift, bifurcate and question these prescriptions are constructed. In other words, here we take the field of healthcare to be a territory both for teaching (pedagogical-bodily formatting) and for learning (experimentation of singular ways of doing and saying things regarding healthcare); and we take care and management within healthcare to be an assembly (bodily) of conflicting parts between some forms of subjection and experimentation forces, from which healthcare practices are woven.
Continuing education; Cultural pedagogy; Healthcare work processes; Healthcare practices; Body