Breathing Life into a Standard

Standardisation is commonly thought of as leading to uniformity and order while practices are regarded as dynamic. They evolve and change through repeated enactments. This study explores the meeting of these two apparently conflicting phenomena by inquiring into how a specific piece of standardised information, namely the standard for bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), is configured in the practices of lifesaving and bystander CPR-training. In pursuits of making the standard an inter