Cultures of Reading: On Professional Vision and the Lived Work of Mammography

The relevant unit for the analysis of the intersubjectivity at issue here is thus not these individuals as isolated entities but … a profession, a community of competent practitioners, most of whom have never met each other but nonetheless expect each other to be able to see and categorize the world in ways that are relevant to the work, tools, and artefacts that constitute their profession (Goodwin, 1994: 615).