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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Medical Gaze"”.
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We know where you belong at: Institutions and Marginalized Bodies in the Literature of Charles Chesnutt, William Faulkner, and Eudora Welty
… The Marrow of Tradition, Dr. Miller uses his “medical gaze” to diagnose problems within the black community while also elevating himself above his community. In Faulkner’s novella “Old Man,” the Tall Convict desperately desires to return to Parchman Prison because he has absorbed the effects of …
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Perceiving Hysteria: Representations of the Liminal Position of Fibromyalgia in Unconventional Women’s Narratives
… between life writing and the stream of the medical humanities concerned with disability, this dissertation critically analyses representations of what I frame as the liminal position of Fibromyalgia Syndrome (FMS) in women’s unconventional literature. Engagement with the literary, in its …
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Influences on the continuity of care for patients with Mycobacterium tuberculosis referred from tertiary and district hospitals
… patient-centred care, Foucault’s concept of the 'medical gaze’ and social determinants of health. My study built upon previous and ongoing research on the topic of continuity of care for TB in Cape Town. I argued that problems in the provision of TB services to hospital patients could be …
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DISABILITY, DEPENDENCY, AND THE MIND: REPRESENTATIONS OF CARE-GIVING AND RECEIVING
… disability. In my fourth chapter, “The Medical Gothic: The Medical Gaze and Monstrous Care,” I show how after the war, the consolidation and assertion of medical authority produced a medical gaze defined by empiricism and scientific objectivity, a gaze that was critiqued by several late …
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Virtual Bodies: Probing Fake Flesh
… employing disruptive erotics to challenge the medical and male gaze and their objectifying tendencies.</p> <p>The work presented aims to provoke thought about the mutable nature of identity in the digital age and to foster a deeper understanding of how art interacts with and reshapes our …