Sick Body Research Articles

늙음을 탄식하는 이를 향한 공감과 위로의 소통 방식 : 내방가사 와 에 대한 고찰

This study focuses on a feminine verse written by Mrs. Lee Ho of the Jinseong Lee clan that has not yet been studied in the academic world, despite the fact that its specific details were previously revealed through a collection of verses titled ‘Bugae-gasa’. In particular, by synthetically examining ‘Notanga’(semantically the verse of lamentation for aging), which is included in the collection, and its answer verse, ‘Notandabgok’(semantically, an answer song to a lamentation for aging) by Mrs. Choi of the Jeonju Choi clan, this study identified characteristics of the two writings as well as, different aspects and cultural meanings of feminine verses shared within a clan.BR ‘Notanga’, where the rhetoric of self-lamentation for aging is found, has a prominent feature, that she focused on her sick body and portrayed the symptoms and changes in various manners. Mrs. Choi, who read ‘Notanga’, noted that ‘the style is fascinating’. In particular, the lamentation of women in ‘Notanga’ is portrayed very differently compared to other writings dealing with the aging of women in the masculine viewpoint of the late Joseon period. This study found that in ‘Notanga’, an elderly woman focused on her own body and tried to portray the aspects of suffering and change in a realistic manner. It shows the subjective anguish and expressive power in a woman’s viewpoint, not from an external or other person’s viewpoint.BR It seems that Mrs. Choi, who wrote ‘Notandapgok’, also expressed her desire to tell of a repressed life by a feminine verse after she read ‘Notanga’. At that time, she was enduring hard life circumstances as the eldest daughter-in-law of, a head family. When Mrs. Choi read ‘Notanga’ and found psychological support, her foundation for expression grew, and she learned to express the difficulty of ‘a woman’s married life’ through the words in a feminine verse. She revealed her desires and true voice by composing ‘Notandapgok’ with a more active mind. Paradoxically, the real aspect of suffering and lamentation portrayed by Mrs. Choi acted as a mechanism of consolation to Mrs. Lee Ho, who lamented aging.BR In this way, it is necessary to pay attention to the examples of dialogue and communication on a family basis among the ways in which feminine verses were distributed in the Yeongnam area in the late Joseon period. A feminine verse is a communication method based on not only the self-esteem of amember of the prestigious family, but also provides a sense of solidarity withthose around them and their circumstances.

Overriding Immanence: Normativity and the Sick Body

Overriding Immanence: Normativity and the Sick Body

The disconsolation of philosophy: May Sinclair, modernism, and disability

ABSTRACTThis article presents a new comparison of modernist literature and early twentieth-century philosophy as historically contemporaneous and mutually citational practices. Both offer a critique of the universality of Western reason and the supposed positivity of the natural sciences by reinterpreting the pathological types and identities these sciences provide, allowing subjects who fit such identities to construct new theories that rationalise and adapt to their vulnerability to biopolitical power-knowledge. Hence, philosophy, as a modern elegiac mode, rehabilitates ‘disconsolation’, rather than offering a recuperative ‘consolation’, as it might have in pre-modern times. This article illustrates this point through the archive of the British modernist author May Sinclair. Sinclair's practice as a philosopher, often deemed ancillary to her fiction and essays, sheds new light on her critical illegibility, if we understand how it is motivated by Sinclair's bodily experience of genetic illness. Philosophy allows Sinclair's fiction to transform concepts of agency and biopolitical determinism to make her vulnerability to scientific laws a pleasurable virtue. Translating these ideas to the level of form as well, Sinclair's novels represent a modernist reaction against the clinical narratorial gaze of literary naturalism, rewriting its experimental protocols from the perspective of the sick body itself.

SIGNIFICADOS DAS EXPERIÊNCIAS CORPORAIS DE PESSOAS COM TUBERCULOSE PULMONAR: A CONSTRUÇÃO DE UMA NOVA IDENTIDADE

RESUMO Objetivo: compreender os significados das experiências corporais de pessoas em tratamento para tuberculose pulmonar. Método: pesquisa qualitativa, realizada no município de Pelotas, Estado do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil. Utilizou-se o referencial teórico da Antropologia em Saúde de Byron Good. Foram realizadas entrevistas semiestruturadas com dez pessoas na segunda fase de tratamento para a tuberculose, em seus domicílios, entre abril e maio de 2015. Para a análise dos dados empregou-se a técnica de Análise de Conteúdo Temática. Resultados: apreenderam-se duas categorias: O corpo sinalizador da doença que se revela na presença de sintomas (febre, emagrecimento, fraqueza) e O corpo doente que manifesta sofrimento, temor, estigma e afastamento. Conclusão: a presença da tuberculose no corpo é capaz de gerar apreensão, rompimento das atividades de lazer e trabalho, afastamento do convívio familiar e social. É essencial desenvolver um olhar para o cuidado, compreender as necessidades singulares de quem vive o adoecimento, valorizar a sua história de vida e a sua subjetividade.

Nahema Hanafi, Le frisson et le baume: Expériences féminines du corps au Siècle des lumières

Nahema Hanafi’s study of women and corporeality in the French Enlightenment focuses on first-person accounts of the sick female body in relation to the increasing power of medical professionals to dictate diagnoses and treatments over the course of the eighteenth century. While she analyses private journals and letters, Hanafi is far more interested in the genre of epistolary consultations, and most notably in exchanges by both men and women with the famous Swiss doctor and medical theorist, Samuel-Auguste Tissot. The organising principle of this study is Thomas Laqueur’s ‘two-sex’ model: that during the eighteenth century, men and women’s bodies came to be seen as radically different, with the biological inferiority of women used as a justification for their continued social subordination to men. However, in Part 1, Hanafi argues that the noble and wealthy bourgeois patients treated by doctors such as Tissot did not in fact adhere to one of the principal conclusions attached to this model: that the French urban elite was becoming increasingly weak and effeminate. She reports that male patients were as likely as women to complain of the vapors and to emphasize their high degree of ‘sensibility’, but saw themselves as no less virile for possessing these characteristics. The treatises in which the effeminacy argument was promoted demonstrate to Hanafi above all the class divide between the doctors and their patients.

The caregiver's relationship with the sick body

The patient-caregiver relationship is also a 'body-to-body' relationship. It brings into play sensory perceptions generating a cognitive and emotional interpretation. Maintaining the proper distance enables caregivers to remain professional while controlling the risk of 'symbolic contamination' and emotional overflow.

Language, Body, Nature: Tackling the Representation of the Kyshtym Disaster in Kate Brown’s Plutopia

The article examines ways of representing nuclear catastrophe in Kate Brown's Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters. In 1957 an explosion in the Mayak works - a plutonium production site - led to massive contamination of the surrounding areas. The event remained a closely kept secret till 1992, absent from the public sphere and cultural texts, despite the fact that the scale of contamination was as big as the Chernobyl explosion. One of the reasons for this was the difficulty of representing nuclear radiation. The author focuses on three contexts of this impossibility: in relation to the cognitive theory of the metaphor, the figure of the sick body as bearer of memory, and the invisibility of the nuclear landscape.

Psihosomatika vrline u doba senzibiliteta

Nakon kratkog osvrta na razdoblje druge polovine 18. stoljeća i elemente prema kojima se kaonjegova ključna karakteristika izdvajaju ekstenzivne analize fenomena senzibiliteta, rad skiciradva prevalentna pravca istraživanja: prvi, situiran unutar medicinskog diskursa 18. stoljeća kojisenzibilitet imenuje uzročnikom "živčanih bolesti" te drugi, onaj filozofijski, koji senzibilitet vidikao instrument za postizanje vrline. Stapanje medicinsko-filozofijskih dijagnoza oprimjeruje seosvrtom na Rousseauovu naslovnu junakinju iz Julije ili Nove Heloize. Time se zaključno stvarajupretpostavke za tematiziranje oboljeloga tijela, koje upravo vizualno neugodnim znakovimasvoje bolesti svjedoči o moralno ugodnim, dapače i visoko poželjnim, karakteristikama osobe.

The Phenomenological Study on the Health and Life of Low-income Seniors who live in Poverty Area in Metropolitan City

Objectives : The elderly in South Korea are the poorest among OECD countries in 2015. The aim of this study was to explore the health and life of the low-income elderly living in vulnerable areas in a metropolitancity. Methods : Data were collected through in-depth individual interviews with 7 participants from October to November 2015 and analyzed through Colaizzi’s phenomenological methodology. The participants were interviewed for over 60 minutes in each person. Results : 7 categories were identified from 17 subcategories: “My life history: sick body,” “Living with a sick body,” “My poor but precious life,” “A sense of distance from the hospital,” “Narrowed area of my life,” “Thankful for help,” and “The village where I have lived my destiny.” There is a lack of medical accessibility, mobility, and economic independence for low-income seniors. In addition, full-fledged redevelopment comes to them as violence. Conclusions : The health and life of the low-income elderly in vulnerable areas are products of many social factors, reaffirming the importance of social health.

Behavioral and neural correlates to multisensory detection of sick humans

Throughout human evolution, infectious diseases have been a primary cause of death. Detection of subtle cues indicating sickness and avoidance of sick conspecifics would therefore be an adaptive way of coping with an environment fraught with pathogens. This study determines how humans perceive and integrate early cues of sickness in conspecifics sampled just hours after the induction of immune system activation, and the underlying neural mechanisms for this detection. In a double-blind placebo-controlled crossover design, the immune system in 22 sample donors was transiently activated with an endotoxin injection [lipopolysaccharide (LPS)]. Facial photographs and body odor samples were taken from the same donors when "sick" (LPS-injected) and when "healthy" (saline-injected) and subsequently were presented to a separate group of participants (n = 30) who rated their liking of the presented person during fMRI scanning. Faces were less socially desirable when sick, and sick body odors tended to lower liking of the faces. Sickness status presented by odor and facial photograph resulted in increased neural activation of odor- and face-perception networks, respectively. A superadditive effect of olfactory-visual integration of sickness cues was found in the intraparietal sulcus, which was functionally connected to core areas of multisensory integration in the superior temporal sulcus and orbitofrontal cortex. Taken together, the results outline a disease-avoidance model in which neural mechanisms involved in the detection of disease cues and multisensory integration are vital parts.

Finding joy in poor health: The leisure-scapes of chronic illness

Globally, increasing numbers of people face the challenge of enjoying life while living with long-term illness. Little research addresses leisure participation for people with chronic illness despite its links with mental and physical health and self-rated quality of life. I use a space-time geographical approach to explore experiences with leisure in everyday life for 26 individuals with chronic kidney disease (CKD) in Australia. I examine ways in which the spatial and temporal characteristics of illness management and symptoms shape where, when, and how participants can enjoy leisure, focusing on: 1) logistical conflicts between illness and leisure; 2) rhythmic interferences with the force of habit in skilful leisure performance; and 3) absorbing experiences of encounter with self and place through leisure. Data were collected from 2013 to 2014. Participants kept diaries over two sample days and then participated in semi-structured interviews. Findings show that the voluntary nature of leisure offered participants important benefits in coping with and managing illness over the long-term, including opportunities to experience greater sense of control, an alternative experience of one's body to the ‘sick body’, and knowledge creation that supports adaptation to the uncertainties of illness trajectories. The ability to engage in meaningful leisure was constrained by the shaping forces of illness symptoms and management on participants' leisure-scapes. Illness treatment regimens should therefore be adapted to better accommodate leisure participation for chronically ill patients, and leisure should be explicitly incorporated into illness management plans negotiated between patients and health practitioners. Finally, greater understanding of the transformative capacity of habit in activities of experimentation and play may have wider-reaching implications for leisure's potential applications in public health. Leisure should be taken seriously as a vehicle for enhancing wellbeing and adaptation to life with long-term illness.

On the Infinitude of Life Stories: Still Puzzling Queer Tales After All These Years

Research Article| February 01 2017 On the Infinitude of Life Stories: Still Puzzling Queer Tales After All These Years Ken Plummer Ken Plummer Ken Plummer is emeritus professor in the Sociology Department at the University of Essex, where he taught between 1975 and 2005. He was the founding editor of the journal Sexualities and has researched and published widely in the fields of Critical Humanism, Narrative and Critical Sexualities Studies. His most recent works include: Cosmopolitan Sexualities (2015, Polity Press); Sociology: The Basics, 2nd ed. (2016, Routledge); “Afterword: Liberating Generations: Continuities and Change in the Radical Queer Western Era” in David Paternotte and Manon Tremblay, eds., Ashgate Companion to Lesbian and Gay Activism (2015, Ashgate); “A Manifesto for Social Stories” in Liz Stanley ed. Documents of Life for the 21st Century (2013, Ashgate); “A Manifesto for Critical Humanism in Sociology” in Daniel Nehring, ed., Sociology: A Text and Reader (2013, Routledge); and “My Multiple Sick Bodies: Symbolic Interaction, Auto/ethnography and the Sick Body” in Bryan S. Turner, ed. Routledge Handbook of the Body (2012, Routledge). He is currently writing a book on Narrative Power for Polity Press. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking (2017) 4 (1): 189–197. https://doi.org/10.14321/qed.4.1.0189 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Ken Plummer; On the Infinitude of Life Stories: Still Puzzling Queer Tales After All These Years. QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking 1 February 2017; 4 (1): 189–197. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/qed.4.1.0189 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveMichigan State University PressQED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 2017 Michigan State University2017 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal Issue Section: Forum You do not currently have access to this content.

La enfermedad y la escritura

The topic of the illness reveals at various points in Peruvian-Japanese poetry José Watanabe. Born in 1945 in Laredo, Peru, he died at the age of 62, suffering from throat cancer. It is not strange to find allusions to the degenerative process of the body – derived from the disease – and to the cure in, for example, “Krankenhaus” (hospital, in German), a section of the book El huso de la palabra (1989). In his poetry about disease, Watanabe involves, on the one hand, knowledge derived from medicine and, in addition, knowledge that is outside the frame of writing: advice, family or community stories, what lives and arises –to put it with one of his verses– “en la honda boca de los mayors”. The notion of disease that is poetically devised, links medical knowledge and those that come from the family. The idea of the disease must be incorporated into the way of living it. The sick body to which Watanabe refers is one who feels, perceives and experiences the ailment as a way of living, but also as a way of dying: the agony. His poetry is a way of living dying and dying in living, within the framework of disease that is nothing other than agony. This comparison is significant if we take into account that the process of writing and reading are seen as the life of poetry (in its writing, in its reading) that goes, as it progresses verse by verse, irremediably to death. At the end of reading the poem, it dies; while reading, agonizes. This allows you to venture a path of reading that splices writing, body, disease, life and death.

Tirso de Molina: el dramaturgo en la crisis de la sucesión de 1621

The crisis is the political upheaval that accompanied the ascent of Olivares to power. Its repercussions on the religious and literary career of Fr. Gabriel Tellez/Tirso de Molina are examined. The primary documents analysed include the two passages in Tellez’s Historia de la Orden de la Merced (one from the early 1630s. the other revised towards the end of the decade) containing his hostile criticism of the struggle between the two groups, Lerma’s associates and those of Olivares. This hostility relates to the sentence issued by the Junta de Reformacion (1625) and to be meted out as its response to the notorious case of Fr. Gabriel Tellez oka Tirso de Molina, etc. This connection confirms our seeing Tirso as a notable political victim. Yet in the thirties, Tirso’s position is complex. To offset the clear indications of a major if not terminal disruption to his activity as dramatist, the circumstances attendant on the Parte tercera de las comedias (1634) are examined to show how Fr. Gabriel came to the defence of his creation Tirso de Molina, by ensuring his survival in print. The text of the Junta’s sentence informs us of the reason its judges had to silence the dramatist; it concerns his writing plays which are profane and give bad examples. This information invites us to ask to which plays can the harsh sentence of the Junta refer? The reply to this question forms the main theme of the study. It is argued that La venganza de Tamar is a work seriously involved in the turbulent politics of the succession. This argument is preceded by an essential study on the text as authorized by Tirso and subject to the editorial scrutiny of Lucas de Avila. The nexus of images referring to physical hunger that develops into sexual and political hunger is coordinated with the recurring image of the body, presented in a series of progressively morbid pathological states. The human body receives focus in a spectacular way, as a conspicuous object on stage. The climax to the series is the banquet where Amon’s mutilated corpse is both guest and dish, a scene that evokes the Thyestes of Seneca, the tragic example of how a royal house is destroyed by violence from within. The image of the sick body, punctuating the play, stands for the sickness in the body politic. The dynamic of the play consists in moving the audience to see in Tirso’s reconfiguration of the biblical story the pathological condition of the State.

El imperio de la mirada: “Ptosis” de Guadalupe Nettel

En este artículo me propongo demostrar cómo la implicación del cuerpo enfermo proyecta uno de los principios artísticos que rigen la escritura de Guadalupe Nettel: el revelamiento de la anormalidad como una categoría estética. Para efecto de mi análisis, me centraré en el cuento “Ptosis” porque considero que la búsqueda del narrador y las reflexiones que subyacen en el texto sobre la fotografía perfilan la sensibilidad artística de la autora.

Memory, history, illness: The female body and the body politic in Ana Maria Machado's Tropical sol da liberdade

ABSTRACTThis article discusses Ana Maria Machado's 1988 novel Tropical sol da liberdade in order to examine the dialects of remembering and forgetting trauma, and the female body as the symbolic site where such dialectics takes place. The trauma in question is both personal and political, and it is a result of events that occurred during the military dictatorship in Brazil: the protagonist's indirect involvement in the fight against the dictatorship, imprisonment, exile, and loss of friends and family members. The protagonist's sick body is a symptom of the psychological trauma she incurred, and the healing process necessitates resolving the dialects of remembering and forgetting the traumatic political and personal events of the past.

O Trabalho Informal na Cidade Fortaleza: Entre o Saneamento Urbano, Políticas Públicas e a Filosofia (1880-1910)

Busca-se com este artigo analisar as maneiras pelas quais os trabalhadores das ruas, tais como carregadores, vendedores e pedintes, articulavam seus dias na cidade de Fortaleza, no final do século XIX, em meio as articulações políticas e normativas da província cearense. Apesar das diversas tentativas da elite política, médica e intelectual estabelecerem discursos e práticas contra a presença maciça, o trabalho desarticulado e o corpo doente dos populares, estes, cada vez mais, se faziam presentes por meio dos trabalhos realizados, seja em tempos de seca, seja no período da belle époque fortalezense. Por meio da análise das fontes, problematiza-se a tipificação dos trabalhadores pobres e informais, no momento em que a elite econômica fortalezense desejava instaurar a modernidade comercial na capital cearense. Para o desenvolvimento do artigo foi realizada pesquisa bibliográfica, além do levantamento de dados da época, como fontes primárias (Relatório do Secretario Interino dos Negócios do Interior da Província do Ceará, Atas de Correspondência da Intendência Municipal da cidade de Fortaleza, Atas de Correspondência do Paço Municipal da cidade de Fortaleza); fontes secundárias (Código de Posturas da Cidade de Fortaleza); e livros de crônicas e memórias da cidade de Fortaleza.

Flesh-eaters: Notes toward a Zombie Methodology

This article reflects upon Martin O’Brien’s 2015 commission Taste of Flesh/Bite Me I’m Yours as part of Trust Me, I’m an Artist, a Creative Europe-funded project. O’Brien discusses the ethics of witnessing the “sick body” in performance and considers the concept of disease as a mode of spectatorship—a concept employed in order to think through the politics of witnessing difficult performance work by artists with illnesses. The artist particularly reflects upon the nature of participation during his performance, which involved explicit interaction with his body as “sick.” O’Brien concludes by considering the ways in which the nature of this interaction allows for the striving toward agency over one’s own flesh.

On Curating Pain: The Sick Body in Martin O’Brien’s Taste of Flesh/Bite Me I’m Yours

This article discusses the “sick body” in performance art and ethics, specifically in Taste of Flesh/Bite Me I’m Yours (2015) by London-based artist Martin O’Brien, which was commissioned by the Arts Catalyst as part of Trust Me, I’m an Artist, a Creative Europe-funded project exploring ethical issues in art that engages with biotechnology and medicine, such as medical self-experimentation, extreme body art and art practices using living materials and scientific process. It considers the bodily categorization “sick,” particularly in relation to when the markers for such categorization are rendered invisible through illnesses—in this context, cystic fibrosis. Through the performance of this illness, important ethical questions are raised for the performing sick body, including complicity, subjectivity and the situation-behavior dynamics present between a performer and an audience.

Valenza umana della cura (care) dei pazienti in SVP e ruolo dei caregivers

[Human value of care and caregivers' role in the management of permanent vegetative state (SVP) patients] As stated by the Royal College of Physicians, «patients who remain in a vegetative or minimally conscious state following profound brain injury present a complex array of clinical and ethical challenges to those who care for them». Patients in clinical condition of Permanent Vegetative State (SVP) are unaware of self and environment, enable of language comprehension or expression; they are able to survive along provided that we are able to ensure primary care, such as eating and hydration. With regard to this existential landmark, caregiver’s role is not only legally related, as guardian of will of his/her relative but also as “mediator” between the SVP patient and heath care professionals; in fact, the caregiver emphasizes the intentionality of patient behaviors, transforming them into care needing. Moreover, since the disease does not only indicate an impairment of one or more functions of an organ, and then the body, but also covers the mind, then the psyche , the sick body reflects in this way the soul’s suffering and this suffering has an impact on family caregivers.