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This chapter develops an ethnomethodologically-informed view regarding the sociality of objects, building upon Garfinkel's various descriptions of object constitution. We examine a particular case of diagnostic reasoning produced in the course of carrying out a surgical procedure at a teaching hospital. Our interest is in the methods employed by the surgeons in resolving certain incongruities in the case as it presents itself. Through an occasioned process of inquiry, the case at hand comes to be seen in a new light. This revised clinical picture is the oriented object under consideration here

Communication models. --- Semiotics. --- Gesture. --- Nonverbal communication. --- Social interaction. --- Symbolic interactionism. --- Interaction, Symbolic --- Interactionism, Symbolic --- Symbolic interaction --- Symbolic-interactionist theory --- Qualitative research --- Social psychology --- Human interaction --- Interaction, Social --- Exchange theory (Sociology) --- Psychology --- Semeiotics --- Semiology (Linguistics) --- Semantics --- Signs and symbols --- Structuralism (Literary analysis) --- Non-verbal communication --- Communication --- Expression --- Models, Communication --- Information theory --- Mudra --- Acting --- Body language --- Elocution --- Movement (Acting) --- Oratory --- Sign language --- Methodology