Abstract The article highlights the introduction of new coloured illumination technology in healthcare environments. Through sensory ethnographic fieldwork, the article showcases the cohesion and clashes between human bodies, hospital spaces and new sensory technologies, exemplified by a case of delivery rooms in Denmark. By addressing how midwives experience and practice lighting during the process of labour, we show how lighting technologies act as atmospheric elements and affect notions of intimacy and ‘being present’ in midwifery practice. The analysis points out a nuanced midwifery sensory awareness of how light not only shapes atmospheres in the delivery room, but also how these atmospheres attune the practices and gestures of human bodies. Through Hermann Schmitz's notion of ‘bodily gripping powers’, we thereby argue for a general attentiveness in healthcare design to how technologies and design affect bodily practices and employees' understanding of their profession. While health science has long showed the effects of lighting on the human body, now increasingly employed in healthcare design practices, the article argues for a broader attention to the interstices of technology and practices of professionals and patients in organizing how spaces are felt and bodies attuned.

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在助产实践中照亮身体存在

摘要 本文重点介绍了在医疗保健环境中引入新的彩色照明技术。通过感官民族志田野调查，文章展示了人体、医院空间和新感官技术之间的凝聚力和冲突，以丹麦产房为例。通过解决助产士在分娩过程中如何体验和实践照明，我们展示了照明技术如何作为大气元素并影响助产实践中的亲密感和“在场”的概念。分析指出了一种微妙的助产士感官意识，即光线不仅会影响产房的气氛，而且还会影响这些气氛如何调整人体的行为和姿势。通过赫尔曼施密茨的“身体抓握力”的概念，因此，我们主张在医疗保健设计中普遍关注技术和设计如何影响身体实践和员工对其职业的理解。虽然健康科学长期以来一直显示照明对人体的影响，现在越来越多地用于医疗保健设计实践，但本文主张更广泛地关注技术和专业人员和患者在组织空间感受和身体协调方式的实践之间的空隙。 .