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
“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
Olivia Banner: “Against the Empathy ___________”
Hypothesis
“Can you show me where you see that?” (Awdish)
Lack of fetal heartbeat on ultrasound
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
"A disabled body is supposedly a body in ________, and ___________ represents for most people a source of terror and an affront to human dignity." (Siebers)
Pain
Bettina Judd: “Betsey Invents the ________________”
Speculum
"This place has been a miracle land. No one even dies unless we let them." (DeForest)
The hospital
Term that refers to how false theories of biological racial difference are used to justify oppression
scientific racism
Around the same time she has an abortion, Leslie Jamison has surgery on this organ
heart
"The practice of quantifying pain was introduced by the ___________ movement of the 1970s, with the goal of providing better care for patients who did not respond to curative treatment."
Hospice
Elizabeth Bishop: “In the ___________ Room”
Waiting
“Before they came the air was calm enough” (Plath)
the tulips
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
The Baby in “People Like That Are the Only People Here” is diagnosed with a cancer of this organ
kidney
"My chief desire in presenting this book is to impress upon somebody's mind the possibilities of ___________." (Crumpler)
Prevention
David Morris: "Living Pain: _______ or ________?"
Mystery or Puzzle
“They offer equipment for surviving illness” (Frank)
the humanities
term meaning fear of doctors
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)
Peed Onk