The growing abundance of medical technologies has led to laments over doctors’ sensory de-skilling, technologies viewed as replacing diagnosis based on sensory acumen. The technique of percussion has become emblematic of the kinds of skills considered lost. While disappearing from wards, percussion is still taught in medical schools. By ethnographically following how percussion is taught to and learned by students, this article considers the kinds of bodies configured through this multisensory practice. I suggest that three kinds of bodies arise: skilled bodies; affected bodies; and resonating bodies. As these bodies are crafted, I argue that boundaries between bodies of novices and bodies they learn from blur. Attending to an overlooked dimension of bodily configurations in medicine, self-perception, I show that learning percussion functions not only to perpetuate diagnostic craft skills but also as a way of knowing of, and through, the resource always at hand; one’s own living breathing body.

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听触、影响和通过打击乐制作医疗机构

日益丰富的医疗技术导致人们对医生的感官去技能感到遗憾，这些技术被视为取代基于感官敏锐度的诊断。打击乐技术已成为被认为已失传的各种技能的象征。虽然从病房消失，但医学院仍在教授打击乐。通过从民族志上追踪学生如何教授和学习打击乐，本文考虑了通过这种多感官练习配置的身体类型。我建议出现三种身体：熟练的身体；受影响的身体；和共振体。由于这些身体是精心制作的，我认为新手的身体和他们从模糊中学习的身体之间的界限。关注医学中被忽视的身体结构维度、自我感知、我表明学习​​打击乐不仅可以使诊断工艺技能永久化，而且还可以作为了解和通过手头资源的一种方式；自己活生生的呼吸身体。