Imagining A Paradoxical Patient: The Rhetoric of Victorian Obstetrics - Sarah Roth
When:
Thursday, February 25, 2016
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM CT
Where: Robert H Lurie Medical Research Center, Searle Seminar Room, 303 E. Superior, Chicago, IL 60611 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Bryan Morrison
(312) 503-1927
Group: Medical Humanities & Bioethics Lunchtime Montgomery Lectures
Category: Lectures & Meetings
Description:
Sarah Roth
Doctoral Student, English Department
Graduate Affiliate, MH&B Program
Northwestern University
Imagining A Paradoxical Patient: The Rhetoric of Victorian Obstetrics
This lecture will discuss the audiences we imagine when we set down clinical advice in writing. Using nineteenth-century obstetric manuals -- the Victorian versions of What to Expect When You're Expecting -- as a case study, we will examine closely how patients are addressed and described in the abstract. By noting the confusing and alienating paradoxes that these particular medical texts set up for their patient-readers, we can consider the potential impact of physicians' diction on their patients.