Bodywork: Social Somatic Interventions in the Operating Theatres of Invasive Radiology

In this chapter the mutual connectedness of bodies and imaging technologies is discussed in the biomedical context of interventional radiology – a process that renders the blood flow visible, thus enabling diagnosis and therapeutic treatment. During the course of my fieldwork in the radiology department at the Medical University Vienna (MUV), I spoke to fifteen radiologists and fifteen or so medical technical assistants about their professional backgrounds, their work, their daily routines, and their experiences with patients. I was primarily interested in how radiological personnel perceive and define ‘contact’ as it relates to their interaction with patients. Do they consider that