Making Measuring Bodies

Medicine is often criticized in science and technology studies (STS) for its dominating measuring practices. To date, the focus has been on two areas of “metric work”: health-care workers metric infrastructures. In this article, I step back into training clinicians, which important understanding more about how practices measurement are developed. draw ethnographic fieldwork a Dutch medical school to look at ubiquitous mundane tool––measuring tapes––is embodied by students as they learn coordinate their sensory knowledge. doing so, create own bodies standard or measure things. Unpacking educational concerning object, suggest that tracing making offers new insights work. This also speaks growing interest STS science, where body fashioned instrument. Specifically, interrelated contributions build deepen scholarship: first, article shows learning an process inner-scaffold making; second, it suggests numerical objectification knowing not calibration “objectivity machines” but rather oscillations between objects involve sensory-numerical