Corpses in Clinical Space and the Preposterous Temporality of Pandemic Care
Cult Med Psychiatry. 2023 Apr 8. doi: 10.1007/s11013-023-09817-5. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTArticulations of the chasm between ideal and attainable forms of care surfacing throughout the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic have highlighted the proliferation of unceremonious deaths associated with inequitable conditions. This paper reconsiders the preposterous temporality of pandemic care by following corpses in and out of clinical space. Written from the perspective of a MD/PhD student's encounter with a corpse replacing the patient on the medicine ward prior to pandemic onset, this paper asks how corpses might interrupt n...
Source: Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry - April 8, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Sheyda M Aboii Source Type: research
Corpses in Clinical Space and the Preposterous Temporality of Pandemic Care
Cult Med Psychiatry. 2023 Apr 8. doi: 10.1007/s11013-023-09817-5. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTArticulations of the chasm between ideal and attainable forms of care surfacing throughout the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic have highlighted the proliferation of unceremonious deaths associated with inequitable conditions. This paper reconsiders the preposterous temporality of pandemic care by following corpses in and out of clinical space. Written from the perspective of a MD/PhD student's encounter with a corpse replacing the patient on the medicine ward prior to pandemic onset, this paper asks how corpses might interrupt n...
Source: Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry - April 8, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Sheyda M Aboii Source Type: research
Corpses in Clinical Space and the Preposterous Temporality of Pandemic Care
Cult Med Psychiatry. 2023 Apr 8. doi: 10.1007/s11013-023-09817-5. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTArticulations of the chasm between ideal and attainable forms of care surfacing throughout the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic have highlighted the proliferation of unceremonious deaths associated with inequitable conditions. This paper reconsiders the preposterous temporality of pandemic care by following corpses in and out of clinical space. Written from the perspective of a MD/PhD student's encounter with a corpse replacing the patient on the medicine ward prior to pandemic onset, this paper asks how corpses might interrupt n...
Source: Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry - April 8, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Sheyda M Aboii Source Type: research
Living the Process: Examining the Continuum of Coercion and Care in Tijuana's Community-Based Rehabilitation Centers
Cult Med Psychiatry. 2023 Apr 6. doi: 10.1007/s11013-023-09822-8. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIn Mexico, community-based, non-biomedical treatment models for substance use are legally recognized in national drug policy, monitored by state-level Departments of Health, and in some cases publicly funded. Academic research on centers that utilize these forms of treatment have focused primarily on documenting their rapid spread and describing their institutional practices, particularly human rights abuses and lack of established biomedical efficacy. In Tijuana, these community-based therapeutic models are shaped by conception...
Source: Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry - April 6, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Ellen E Kozelka Source Type: research
The Dreamwork of the Symptom: Reading Structural Racism and Family History in a Drug Addiction
This article contributes to debates over the interpretation of symptoms through a close reading of the case of Leon, an African American man struggling with an addiction to crack cocaine. Leon presented a complex illness narrative in which his addiction was clearly a product of structural racism, but also the result of dynamics within his family. Drawing on critical reevaluations of Freud's concept of the dreamwork, I call attention to the surface elements of Leon's narrative-what I term the surface of the symptom-and to the formal mechanisms by which latent contents (such as the social, the political, and the personal) ar...
Source: Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry - April 6, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Jesse Proudfoot Source Type: research
