caa a22 4500 463161106 CHVBK 20180406164748.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20070901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10746-007-9059-4 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10746-007-9059-4 Nishizaka Aug Department of Sociology, Meiji Gakuin University, 108-8636, Minato-Ku, Tokyo, Japan aut Hand Touching Hand: Referential Practice at a Japanese Midwife House [Elektronische Daten] [Aug Nishizaka] This article focuses on referential practices at a Japanese midwife house, where at prenatal examinations, a midwife palpates a pregnant woman's abdomen with her hands, without any assistance from an ultrasound scanner. The midwife often refers to spots on the abdomen in palpation with locative demonstrative expressions. I demonstrate that ways in which references to spots on the pregnant woman's abdomen are accomplished are subtly different, depending on the action sequence in which they are embedded. The description of referential practices in which the touching plays an important role has consequences for the re-conceptualization of human interaction in general, and interaction between medical professionals and their clients in modern medical settings in particular. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2007 Action sequencing nationallicence Conversation analysis nationallicence Midwife house nationallicence Multi-sensory accomplishment of reference nationallicence Normative structure of the body nationallicence Palpation nationallicence Referential practice nationallicence Human Studies Springer Netherlands 30/3(2007-09-01), 199-217 0163-8548 30:3<199 2007 30 10746 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10746-007-9059-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10746-007-9059-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Nishizaka Aug Department of Sociology, Meiji Gakuin University, 108-8636, Minato-Ku, Tokyo, Japan aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Human Studies Springer Netherlands 30/3(2007-09-01), 199-217 0163-8548 30:3<199 2007 30 10746 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer