Narrative Matters: Understanding The Virgin Suicides – myth, memory and the medical gaze

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 189-191
Author(s):  
Clare Hayes‐Brady ◽  
Elizabeth Barrett
Keyword(s):  
Medical Gaze

scholarly journals Detecting the Diagnosis: Parasitology, Crime Fiction, and the British Medical Gaze

2021 ◽  
pp. 131-173
Author(s):  
Emilie Taylor-Pirie
Keyword(s):  
Crime Fiction ◽  
Frame Of Reference ◽  
Tropical Medicine ◽  
Cultural Encounters ◽  
Popular Imagination ◽  
Medical Gaze ◽  
Cultural Currency ◽  
Arthur Conan Doyle ◽  
Colonial Encounter ◽  
Microscopic World

AbstractIn this chapter, Taylor-Pirie traces the cultural encounters between the parasitologist and the scientific detective in the medico-popular imagination, revealing how such meetings helped to embed the figure of the doctor-detective in public understandings of science. Parasitologists like Ronald Ross and David Bruce were routinely reported in newspapers using detective fiction’s most famous archetype: Sherlock Holmes, a frame of reference that blurred the boundaries between romance and reality. Recognising the continued cultural currency of Holmesian detection in clinical and diagnostic medicine, she re-immerses the ‘great detective’ and his creator, Arthur Conan Doyle, in the literary-historical contexts of the fin de siècle, demonstrating how material and rhetorical entanglements between criminality, tropical medicine, and empire constructed the microscopic world as new kind of colonial encounter.

scholarly journals El binomio discapacidad-enfermedad: un análisis crítico / The Disability-Disease Pairing: A Critical Analysis

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco Guzmán Castillo
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Chronically Ill ◽  
Medical Rehabilitation ◽  
Legal Documents ◽  
Medical Gaze ◽  
The Social ◽  
Long Time ◽  
As If

ABSTRACTDisease and disability are two concepts closely linked for a long time, so that the second seems to be merely a consequence of the first. Even today both realities are treated as if they were the same thing in many public contexts and legal documents. However, this link between disease and disability is not as unavoidable as is often implied. According to the approach outlined in this paper it comes to different realities that are interpreted as part of the same thing under the code of the medical gaze. This paper presents and critically analyzes the archaeological origin of the interpretation of the person with disabilities and chronically ill in the discourse called «medical rehabilitation». Under this paradigm is imposed on the person with disabilities the social mandate to rehabilitate and/or cure to, so, be reintegrated and contribute to society. Otherwise, will be doomed to exclusion.RESUMENEnfermedad y discapacidad son dos conceptos estrechamente vinculados entre sí desde hace mucho tiempo, de manera que la segunda no parece más que una consecuencia de la primera. Aún hoy se tratan ambas realidades como si fueran la misma cosa en multitud de contextos públicos y documentos jurídicos. Sin embargo, este vínculo entre enfermedad y discapacidad no es tan ineludible como a menudo se da a entender. Según el planteamiento expuesto en este trabajo, se trata de realidades distintas que son interpretadas como parte de una misma cosa bajo el código de la mirada médica. Este trabajo presenta y analiza de forma crítica el origen arqueológico de la interpretación de la persona con discapacidad como un enfermo crónico dentro del discurso que se denomina «médico-rehabilitador». Bajo este paradigma se impone a la persona con discapacidad el mandato social de que se rehabilite y/o se cure para, de esta manera, poder reinsertarse y aportar a la sociedad. De lo contrario, quedará condenado a la exclusión.

I mutevoli confini della medicalizzazione: prospettive e dilemmi del miglioramento umano

2009 ◽  
pp. 17-35
Author(s):  
Antonio Maturo
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Normal Individual ◽  
Human Enhancement ◽  
Ethical Perspective ◽  
Medical Gaze ◽  
Health Care Practices ◽  
Care Practices ◽  
Biomedical Interventions

- While medicalization is the process of extending the medical gaze on human conditions through the mechanism of pathologization, human enhancement actions are implemented towards normal conditions. In this sense, human enhancement can not be considered either health care or health promotion because its aim is optimization, not healing nor prevention. As the borders between normality and pathology are blurred, biomedical interventions aiming at improving a normal individual today could be conceived as health care practices directed towards a sick person tomorrow. Therefore, human enhancement actions should be analyzed through the lenses of the medicalization-theory proposed by Conrad - but on a long-term scale. Under an ethical perspective, human enhancement interventions - being very heterogeneous - should be analyzed case-by-case.Keywords: medicalization, human enhancement, medicine, normality, health promotion, disease.Parole chiave: medicalizzazione, miglioramento umano, medicina, normalitÀ, promozione della salute, malattia.

Relational spirituality after the medical gaze.

2020 ◽  
pp. 15-30
Author(s):  
Steven J. Sandage ◽  
David Rupert ◽  
George Stavros ◽  
Nancy G. Devor
Keyword(s):  
Relational Spirituality ◽  
Medical Gaze

scholarly journals Presentation of the clothed self on the hospital ward: an ethnographic account of perceptual attention and implications for the personhood of people living with dementia

2020 ◽  
pp. medhum-2019-011757
Author(s):  
Paula Boddington ◽  
Katie Featherstone ◽  
Andy Northcott
Keyword(s):  
Medical Condition ◽  
Subsequent Treatment ◽  
Self Perception ◽  
Staff Perceptions ◽  
Acute Setting ◽  
Delivery Of Care ◽  
Medical Gaze ◽  
Outcomes Of Care ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Hospital Wards

This study contributes to our understanding of the ‘medical gaze’ and its impact on the ways in which people living with dementia experience care during a hospital admission. Visual perception has a powerful effect on our emotional and moral reactions to others. One aspect of how we perceive and respond to others is through clothing, which relates strongly to class and social position. Our focus is on exploring the ways in which patient clothing may affect the perceptions and response of others, and self-perception and resulting behaviour. We draw on ethnographic research within acute hospital wards in five hospitals across England and Wales, examining the everyday organisation and delivery of care to people living with dementia. People living with dementia are a significant population who have poor experiences and outcomes of care within the acute setting. Our data suggest that the twin aspects of clothing and appearance—of self-perception, and of perception by others—may be especially important in the fast-paced context of an acute ward environment, where patients living with dementia may be struggling with the impacts of an additional acute medical condition within in a highly timetabled, regimented, and unfamiliar environment of the ward, and where staff perceptions of them may feed into clinical assessments of their condition and subsequent treatment and discharge pathways.

Turning the medical gaze in upon itself: Root cause analysis and the investigation of clinical error

2006 ◽  
Vol 62 (7) ◽  
pp. 1605-1615 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roderick Aren Michael Iedema ◽  
Christine Jorm ◽  
Debbi Long ◽  
Jeffrey Braithwaite ◽  
Jo Travaglia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Root Cause Analysis ◽  
Cause Analysis ◽  
Root Cause ◽  
Medical Gaze ◽  
Clinical Error

Lumen in obscuris: The Winding Road of Modern Endoscopy

Nuncius ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudio Pogliano
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Alimentary Canal ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Historical Process ◽  
Medical Practitioners ◽  
Medical Gaze

AbstractThe historical process leading to the recent invention of endoscopic capsules that are swallowed and travel through the alimentary canal, or to virtual voyages inside the human body one of the last amazing digital technologies has been long and winding. This essay seeks to retrace some steps of that process, since the second half of the 18th century. Numerous medical practitioners, technicians, and instrument makers aimed to explore inner body parts and interspaces by means of the sense of sight. In the mid-19th century Endoscope was called the instrument that would allow to bring light into unknown recesses and visualize them; urethra and bladder were the organs at first investigated, but soon the medical gaze proceeded to penetrate the esophagus and the stomach, not without several obstacles to be overcome.

The Case for an Independent Licensing Board for Psychology

1992 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 228-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor Nell
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Professional Development ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Human Service ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
Human Welfare ◽  
Information Giving ◽  
Medical Gaze ◽  
Mental Health Settings

Medicine and psychology are constrained to collaborate with one another in their common human service enterprise, but are methodologically separated by psychology's loquacity, its dependence on words, and the silence of the medical gaze, its wordlessness. If psychology is co-opted by the politically more powerful medical profession, it cannot attain its full human welfare potential. Its professional development is stunted, it is subordinated to psychiatry in mental health settings, and prevented from communicating effectively with its clients by the imposition of information giving constraints appropriate to medicine but alien to psychology. In this paper the author argues that in South Africa there cannot be a liberatory psychology until there is an autonomous psychology, governed by a statutorily independent licensing board.

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