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The chapter explores how the clinical team manages the expectations of patients and supporting family members, many of whom arrive at the service with unrealistic expectations about DBS. Team members use a goal-setting session with patients and supporting family members structured around a specific patient-centred tool adopted from occupational therapy. The tool delegates particular roles to team members, the patient, and family members, and in doing this, it encodes power relations. Importantly, the chapter argues, such tools encourage patients and families to adopt future-orientated dispositions that are conducive to technological innovation projects. These future-orientated tools, and future-management work more generally, are powerful components of the PMDS proto-platform and indeed biomedical platforms more generally. Within the PMDS, they participate in perpetuating the broad clinical gaze.
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Gardner, J. (2017). Managing Expectations, Aligning Futures. In: Rethinking the Clinical Gaze. Health, Technology and Society. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53270-7_6
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