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List all of the texts.
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- Autism Screening Questionnaire
- What can a body do?
- Empathy Exam
- “Whats wrong with me?”
- Cancer made me a shallower person
- When breath becomes air
- “The Chart”
- What the body told
- Atlas of the heart
- “Coded Exposure: Is Visibility A Trap?” from Race After Technology
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Autism screening questionnaire
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- poem
- oliver de la paz
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What can a body do?
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- non-fiction, design theory
- sarah hendren
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Empathy exams
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- essays
- Leslie Jamison
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“What’s wrong with me?”
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- personal essay
- megan Orourke
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Cancer Made me a shallower person
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- graphic novel/memoir
- Miriam Engelberg
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When breath becomes air
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- memoir
- Kalanithi
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Rafael Campo
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- The chart - poem
- What the body told “Ten Patients and another”
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Atlas of the Heart
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- Affect theorist
- brene brown
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Ruja Benjamin
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“Coded Exposure: Is Visibility A Trap?” from Race After Technology (Theorist)
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Benefits of dialogue
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allows for a back and forth, mood/tone revealed, reveals tensions
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Autism screening questionnaire (topics)
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- Style paints division between the parent and the physician
- fairly flat interrogative language of the questionnaire serves to highlight the intense intimacy and arresting sensory detail of De la Paz’s own writing
- a look at how every day, people try to deal with the questionnaires our medical system has come to rely on.
- Pushes against the reductionism
- The reductionism is mind-boggling, just as the world the speaker in the poem creates with his answers is worlds away from the yes/no answers the questionnaire demands. So much information is lost.
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What can a body do? (topics)
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- “built” things demand that body meets world
- helps us imagine a future that will better meet the extraordinary range of our collective needs and desires.
- assistance based on the body’s stunning capacity for adaptation—rather than a rigid insistence on “normalcy”
- design is collaborative, designing for one is designing for all
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Benefits of essays
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- Essay – to try
- Sense of trying out, trying with
- Brilliant form for exploring inner dialogue, inner tensions
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Empathy exams (topics)
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- ironic, honest, searching, emotional
- She is searching for how she feels and another method to show others how she feels
- explores the questions of what empathy is, how it can be best expressed, and when is it appropriate to do so.
- The first essay establishes empathy as an active choice on the part of the empathizer that needs to be voiced in order to be most effectively expressed
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“What’s wrong with me?” (topics)
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- helplessness
- loss of a distinct self
- A diagnosis gives you closure, mentally at ease
- Gives you a particular label that allows other people to understand your pain better
- Repetition and change to the photograph and emphasizes memory awakening joy
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Cancer Made me a Shallower Person (topic)
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- a humorous and enlightening counter-narrative to the upbeat, heroic survivorship trope that is so easily accepted in pink ribbon culture.
- Tension between what she is supposed to be feeling and what affect she is allowed to display
- Burden that affect will impact outcome
- smart, funny, and irreverent while the rough lines, basic colors, and messy drawings simultaneously reflect a deeper message of truth, personal struggle, and limited time
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When breath becomes air (topics)
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- uses language to help us experience what he experiences: fear, awe, wonder shame
- search for meaning, path to becoming
- Continual calling to god
- There is a tension between detachment and intimacy highlighted in these words
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Rafael Campo (topics)
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- Failures of empathy
- World in which individuals who are overlooked are struggling and incredible pain
- Values dignity deeply
- Cultural commentary of the causes of disease illness
- Translating their suffering for us
- Paints the scene of how they are living clearly
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Atlas of the heart (topics)
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- From the clinical point of view the groups of emotions may have a diagnostic benefit
- Make it essential to discuss and recognize these emotions
- weaves in research, science, and story together to help the reader understand their own emotions and the emotional lives of others.
- language shapes our experiences
Medical Humanities
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