Sublime

bias in our diagnostic system.

Advisory

A DS reading of prosthetics and other medical modifications in SF must be careful not to idealize the transformative potential of such technologies while neglecting a discussion of the bodies most often targeted for and affected by such interventions.

I still find it hard to reconcile my deep belief in the healing power of the relationship between a doctor and a patient with the reality that we doctors are easily replaced.

sensate

As scientific knowledge and technology advanced in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, what it meant to be a doctor changed. Michel Foucault’s insight about this change is well summarized by psychiatrist and medical historian Abraham Nussbaum: Foucault described the moment when physicians combined dissection with clinical practice as

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