Dieticians’ Understanding of Coeliac Disease: An Empirical Investigation of Interactional Expertise. Robert Evans 1 , and Helen Boyce 2 1 Centre for the Study of Knowledge, Expertise and Science (KES), Cardiff School of Social Sciences http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/socsi/expertise 2 Health Services Research Unit, Dept. Of Public Health, University of Oxford
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Dieticians’ Understanding of Coeliac Disease:An Empirical Investigation of Interactional Expertise.
Robert Evans1, and Helen Boyce2
1 Centre for the Study of Knowledge, Expertise and Science (KES), Cardiff School of Social Scienceshttp://www.cardiff.ac.uk/socsi/expertise
2 Health Services Research Unit, Dept. Of Public Health, University of Oxford
Overview
The Imitation Game Key Ideas Software and data
Imitation Games with Coeliacs Hypotheses Aggregate Results Successes, Failures and Interactional
Expertise Conclusions
What next?
Imitation Game
Two Kinds of Expertise
Contributory expertise: enables those who have acquired it to contribute linguistically and practically to the community through the expertise is sustained. The most common usage of the word ‘expert’.
Interactional Expertise: expertise in the language of a specialism in the absence of expertise in its practice. Like contributory expertise, it requires the tacit-knowledge acquired by immersion in a form-of-life (i.e. socialisation). It enables individuals to talk as if they had contributory expertise even though they lack practical or craft skills.
Eating Out All dietitians demonstrated some interactional
expertise e.g. difficulties at social events, need to plan ahead, bring ‘emergency supplies’
Could be common knowledge? Emotional aspects
Only dietitians with higher levels of interactional expertise were explicitly acknowledged as getting this right e.g. stress caused by being seen as ‘fussy eater’
Dietitians Knowledge -- Mistakes
Dietitians’ Knowledge
Dietitians Identified by Mistakes – not careful enough to avoid cross-
contamination, reading labels, not an allergy Limited identification – bringing own food does not
always make you feel part of the crowd, gluten-free baking is not easy!
Wrong discourse – Coeliac disease is not a ‘problem’ Stylistic factors – use of examples often persuasive;
clinical or advisory style often a giveaway Repair work
Some really bad answers ‘excused’ by judges who think dietitian is ‘newly diagnosed’ patient
Conclusions
Overall outcome is chance condition Dietitians have interactional expertise Level of interactional expertise varies
Caveats Need control group of lay persons
Imitation Game as comparative method with different health professionals with different illness or health issues with different training / education
Imitation Game References
Collins, Harry and Robert Evans (2002) ‘The Third Wave of Science Studies: Studies of Expertise and Experience’, Social Studies of Sciences, 32 (2): 235-96.
Collins, Harry and Robert Evans (2007) Rethinking Expertise, Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press.
Collins, Harry, Robert Evans, Rodrigo Ribeiro and Martin Hall (2006), ‘Experiments with Interactional Expertise, Studies In History and Philosophy of Science, Volume 37, No. 4 (Dec 2006), pp. 656-674.
Evans, Robert and Harry Collins (forthcoming, 2010) ‘Interactional Expertise and the Imitation Game’ in Michael Gorman (ed) Trading Zones and Interactional Expertise: Creating New Kinds of Collaboration, Chicago, IL: MIT Press