Human(ities)
In Never Let Me Go, this is collected from the children at Halisham in an effort to prove that they are not “anything less than fully human.”
What is artwork?
Kathy H.’s job title in Never Let Me Go
What is carer?
In a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Dr. Aylmer becomes obsessed with removing this from his wife
What is a birthmark?
Nina Riggs’s memoir The Bright Hour and Kara Sievewright’s comic “Queer in a Common Country” both deal with the diagnosis of this disease
Short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne indicating someone practices witchcraft
What is The Birthmark of the Devil?
Catherine Belling writes that, “In relation to health care, the humanities are still defined (and largely marginalized) by their difference from" these
What are the sciences?
In a short story by Sherman Alexie, the main character asks this health care provider for a blanket for his father
Who is a nurse?
In December of last year, a Chinese scientist was criticized for ethical violations in using this technology to genetically edit embryos
What is CRISPR?
A Wilms tumor, with which the baby in a short story by Lorrie Moore is diagnosed, is a cancer of this organ
What is the kidney?
Theory by Rita Charon used as strength training exercise equipment
What is Narrative Medicine Ball?
Magazine Elizabeth Bishop’s seven-year-old speaker is looking at when she asks, “What similarities…held us all together / or made us all just one?”
What is The National Geographic?
Character in a short story by Lorrie Moore who says, “You don’t know exactly what it is until it’s in the bucket.”
Who is The Radiologist?
Dorothy Roberts argues that biotech companies that offer genetic selection services often claim to care about ______________ as a way to deflect from the fact that these technologies tend to “reinforce race, gender, and other social inequalities”
What is health?
The disease Susan Sontag is referring to when she describes the “language of political paranoia” and “science-fiction flavor” used to refer to it in popular media in the 1980s
What is AIDS?
Memoir by Nina Riggs used as a device to tell time
What is The Bright Hourglass?
Alternative name that has been proposed for the “medical humanities”
What is the health humanities?
Elizabeth Bishop: “In Worcester, Massachusetts, / I went with Aunt Consuelo / to keep her ___________________ appointment”
What is dentist's?
In Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel Never Let Me Go, human beings are cloned for this purpose
What is organ donation?
This was “the ‘master disease’ of early-twentieth-century reformers and editors,” according to historian Nancy Tomes in “her article “Epidemic Entertainments”
What is tuberculosis?
TV comedy series by Julie Klausner and Billy Eichner telling the story of an encounter in pediatric oncology
What is Difficult People Like That Are the Only People Here?
14th-century Italian poet who argued that the role of the university was to supply students with wisdom and skills for civic leadership
Who is Petrarch?
Sylvia Plath: “I have given my name and my day-clothes up to the nurses / And my history to the anesthetist and my body to” these health professionals
Who are the surgeons?
Susan Sontag argues that this type of illness transmission tends to be “judged more harshly” than others
What is sexual transmission?
In the comic “My Quest for Health” by Michael Sappol and Shelley Wall, Mike’s trouble breathing is initially diagnosed as this
What is a panic attack?
Novel by Kazuo Ishiguro that asks a question from a children’s classic: “Do you like my hat?”
What is Never Let Me Go Dog Go?