Abstract Professional work such as nursing has traditionally been examined as being localized in the individual’s body where professional know-how and skills are residing in the cognitive faculties and in embodied action. Contrary to such a view, the concept of agencement, recently used in the social study of finance, underlines that agency is in the contemporary technoscientifically determined times of necessity distributed and includes a variety of tempospatially distributed resources. Reporting a study nursing work in a leukemia ward in a Swedish regional hospital, it is demonstrated that the conventional view of nursing as primarily being bedside care is only accommodating a subset of the totality of the nurses’ work. In addition to face-to-face care and patient interaction, nursing work is the mobilization of a great number of actors with different domains of expertise to safeguard the health care status of the patient. Speaking of nursing work as agencement is opening up for alternative and more accurate understandings of nursing work in an increasingly technologically determined health care system.

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护理、床边护理和专家知识的组织：作为代理的专业工作

摘要 护理等专业工作传统上被视为局限于个人身体，而专业知识和技能则存在于认知能力和具体行动中。与这种观点相反，最近在金融社会研究中使用的代理概念强调代理处于当代技术科学确定的必需分布式时代，并且包括各种时空分布的资源。报告在瑞典地区医院白血病病房进行的研究护理工作表明，护理主要是床边护理的传统观点仅适用于全部护士工作的一个子集。除了面对面的护理和患者互动，护理工作是动员大量具有不同专业知识领域的参与者来维护患者的医疗保健状况。将护理工作称为代理，这为在日益技术化的医疗保健系统中对护理工作的替代性和更准确的理解开辟了道路。