Definitions 2
Method of analysis that attends to a text’s construction, focusing on interpretation rather than summary/comprehension
Close reading
Rana Awdish’s doctors ultimately discover an undiagnosed tumor in this organ
liver
“I would propose that while the doctor typically approaches pain as a puzzle or challenges, the patient typically experiences pain as a _________________.” (Morris)
mystery
Olivia Banner: “Against the _____________ Hypothesis”
Empathy
“Can you show me where you see that?” (Awdish)
this kind of empathy is defined as "the ability to understand and recognize the thoughts and feelings of others"
cognitive
The patient Ava in A History of Present Illness is continually tested for “death” of this organ
brain
“Where does pain worth ________________begin?” (Biss)
measuring
Bettina Judd: “Betsey Invents the ________________”
Speculum
“I knew birth was painful and bloody, no matter what. But this was something else, something worse.” (Butler)
T'lic egg hosting
Term that describes how the continual effects of mental and physical stress due to racism can result in poorer health outcomes for Black people
weathering
Around the same time she has an abortion, Leslie Jamison has surgery on this organ
heart
“Medicine is invested in ______________________; its practice is inextricable from the practice of future imagining” (Pasco et al)
speculation
Elizabeth Bishop: “In the ___________ Room”
Waiting
“Before they came the air was calm enough” (Plath)
the tulips
“the notion that diseases can and should be thought of as entities existing outside the unique manifestations of illness in particular men and women” (Rosenberg)
disease specificity
The Baby in “People Like That Are the Only People Here” is diagnosed with a cancer of this organ
kidney
“Upon closer inspection, the leaf her 2-year-old was attempting to put in his mouth in the middle of the playground on that lovely fall day was in fact a used __________” (Gyasi)
tampon
Charles Rosenberg: “The ________________ of Diagnosis”
Tyranny
“They offer the bitter humor of irony and the revenges of satire. They offer equipment for surviving illness” (Frank)
the humanities
iatrophobia
Bettina Judd’s “ordeal with medicine” refers to the misdiagnosis and dismissal of a ruptured cyst on this organ
Ovary
“I would say that I want one who is a __________ reader of illness and a good _________ of medicine.” (Broyard)
close; critic
Namwali Serpell: “The ______________of Empathy”
Banality
“People Like That Are the Only People Here” (Moore)
nurses and parents in Peed Onk: "airy, scripted optimism"