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SCS-20019-XF173 Culture and Society
Minnie L. Thompson-Jordan
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Culture and Society
Artifacts are cultural objects created by humans (Queen, 2017). An organization's or team's culture can
be revealed through artifacts. A team's culture can be determined by its cultural artifacts (McGarr, 2018).
Healthcare cultural artifacts are human-made objects that reflect both professional and workplace
characteristics.
In the workplace, artifacts play a crucial role in understanding culture. This reflects the company's values,
goals, and operations. In the workplace, it is most recognizable in artifacts. We can learn from analyzing
artifacts that they provide valuable information not available through interviews or observational data
and serve to enrich a study. (Norum, n.d).
The following are examples of how material culture has been used (or not used) to reflect the values of
its members:
1.
According to women in academia, workplace artifacts have symbolic meanings. These symbolic
meanings lead them to identify themselves as outsiders in the workplace. Auto-ethnography
involves the authors exploring symbolic meanings from artifacts in their working environment as
researchers and participants. In terms of the symbolic meaning of artifacts for women in
academia, three themes emerged. Women felt uncomfortable in their surroundings due to the
theme of effect, invisible due to the theme of representation, and under surveillance. In this
study, generalizability was limited to one university. This study should be replicated in other
institutions of higher education (Kemp, Angell, & McLoughlin, 2015).
2.
The placement of artwork in corporate offices is another example. It appears that artworks are
now a standard part of executive offices. According to a quantitative study, about 6% of
executive magazine portraits showed the subjects in front of an artwork. Besides its decorative
function, art surrounding office executives have other functions. As reported in the literature,
corporate art communicates an organization's or person's identity. This interpretation is
contrasted with art as a means for executives to present themselves and promote their social
status; art is a form of conspicuous consumption. Depending on the executive's organization
industry it operates in, and to a lesser extent depending on the type of organization, the artwork
has both an identity and a status function(Schnugg & Lehner, 2016).
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The artifacts of healthcare work include objects, processes, technologies, and the environments created
by healthcare workers (Kaminski, n.d.). Stethoscopes and medicine bottles are examples of healthcare
artifacts.
Rene Laennec invented the stethoscope at Necker-Enfants Malades Hospital in
Paris in 1816. This original instrument greatly influenced the design of our
stethoscope. The ear is placed at one end of the model, and the other end is
placed on the patient's chest. In 1851, the binaural stethoscope was invented,
but
it didn't replace the simpler monaural stethoscope until the late 19th or early
20th century (Campbell, 2020). As early as the early 1900s, stethoscopes were a staple in doctors' bags;
they represented science-based medicine, sterilized instruments, and efficiency in diagnosis (University
of Minnesota, 2020). Medical doctors routinely use it, and it has become a status symbol. Nurses also
use it to monitor blood pressure and heart rate. It is introduced to medical students during medical
training. Patients perceive the stethoscope as an important symbol of the medical profession (David &
Dumitrascu, 2017). By investigating the sounds made by the heart and lungs with this instrument, the
creator could determine that the observations made during the patient exam supported his diagnosis
(David & Dumitrascu, 2017).
There are many meanings associated with a medicine bottle in modern
society. Especially in medical contexts, it has so many purposes (Penn State,
2015). Medicine bottles contain medicines that treat illnesses like colds.
Additionally, it holds medications for lifesaving medicine, sanity, weakness, or
even poison (Penn State, 2015). Pharmacy glass bottles date back to at least the
1600s and became more common in the mid-to-late 1700s (Guffey, 2018). Empty bottles can mean the
end of treatment, indicate that someone may be addicted, or just can be regarded as trash. Mass
production, or perhaps the sale of pills on the underground/black market, could be implied by many
bottles. It could signify a society's wastefulness if bottles are empty. Artifacts are viewed differently
depending on their context. Many medical breakthroughs have occurred over the past 100 years,
resulting in cures for hundreds of diseases. Prescription medication bottles are used by patients, non-
patients who purchase over-the-counter medication, and even pets who take prescription medication.
Properly storing your medicines can help them work as they should and prevent poisoning (Medicine
Plus, n.d.).
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(Roussy, 2016)
(Penn State, 2015)
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