Methodological Intervention: Attuning Cultural Humility to the social-material contingencies of the clinical encounter:
The complexity of knowing demanded by the emergence of a technologies driven and supported, distributed, and information fueled health decision making system requires a renewed sensibility towards cultural humility. The methodological framework for cultural humility that we propose below to address these challenges repurposes the methodology of ”diffraction” introduced by feminist, neo-materialist scholar Karen Barad. We also draw insights from education, science and technology and social science researchers who have adapted a diffractive analysis to expand understandings of their own research and educational contexts25,26,27. We suggest that a neo-materialist diffractive approach re-orients the practices of cultural humility away from reflexive modalities of evaluation and assessment towards a more relational and implicated way of engaging the material and cultural (discursive) contingencies of contemporary clinical care.