{"id":120,"date":"2014-02-16T02:20:56","date_gmt":"2014-02-16T11:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi290\/?p=120"},"modified":"2016-12-20T10:23:17","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T19:53:17","slug":"for-wed-feb-19th-virtual-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi290\/for-wed-feb-19th-virtual-class\/","title":{"rendered":"For Wed Feb 19th (virtual class)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week, continue reading in Rutkow&#8217;s book, Chapters 2 and 3, and the printed essay from <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi290\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Foucault.BirthOfClinic.pdf\">The Birth of the Clinic<\/a><\/em> by Michel Foucault.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi290\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/FoucaultInTranslation.pdf\">Click here to download<\/a> my &#8220;Cliff Notes&#8221; (Ok, &#8220;Hangen Notes&#8221;) to the Foucault reading, to help you read your way through it. Also, this movie clip from the 1993 Harrison Ford film <em>The Fugitive<\/em> applies &#8211; I&#8217;ll be talking about it in my notes.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oSOFxh1JDAo\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For Wednesday, we are not meeting in person. Please write a journal entry on Blackboard reflecting on Rutkow&#8217;s chapters and Foucault\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ideas by considering the discussion questions below (in about 500 words total, you don&#8217;t have to answer every question). I already know this is hard to read, so don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t use the journal to complain about its difficulty; rather, look on the positive side and see and celebrate what you CAN gain and learn from it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">How does your own hospital\/clinical settings differ from the late 18th century \u00e2\u20ac\u0153clinics\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Foucault studied and the 19th century medical care that Rutkow describes?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">At what point in your own medical\/nursing training did you learn \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the gaze\u00e2\u20ac\u009d as Foucault describes it? This was probably an entirely unconscious process, and perhaps you have never had a chance to reflect on it. But think back: somewhere along the way, you learned to separate a patient from his\/her disease and to establish, through trained observation (what Foucault calls \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the medical gaze\u00e2\u20ac\u009d), your authority over that disease by learning to recognize and name it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">In your own clinical settings, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s your job to generate an explanation (verbal, or written in a chart using the SOAP formula) to communicate your findings 1) to other medical professionals and 2) also to the patient. How do those explanations and descriptions (what Foucault calls \u00e2\u20ac\u0153discourses\u00e2\u20ac\u009d) differ? How easy do you find it to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153switch\u00e2\u20ac\u009d between discourses?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m curious: do you think electronic medical records (which of course Foucalt had no experience with) are an entirely new system of medical explanation, or are they just a digital version of the modern explanatory systems we already have?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">On that same note, do you find that today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s technological interface that comes between you and the patient (electronic monitors, thermometers, even gloves) helps or hinders your trained ability to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153discover\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the disease? What are some ways that 21st century clinical technologies are an advantage and\/or a disadvantage in diagnosing and treating patients? In other words, how has technology altered \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the gaze\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (and therefore, medical thought\/discourse itself)?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, continue reading in Rutkow&#8217;s book, Chapters 2 and 3, and the printed essay from The Birth of the Clinic by Michel Foucault.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virtual-class","tag-spr14"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi290\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi290\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi290\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi290\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi290\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi290\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi290\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi290\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi290\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}