1-20 of 42 Search Results for

surgery

Follow your search
Access your saved searches in your account

Would you like to receive an alert when new items match your search?
Close Modal
Sort by
Journal Article
Social Text (2014) 32 (3 (120)): 69–86.
Published: 01 September 2014
...Harris Solomon This article addresses the phenomenon of metabolic surgery in urban India, an intervention designed to address the metabolic diseases of obesity and diabetes. While consumptive willpower grounds prescriptions for changes in lifestyle, such as diet and exercise, metabolic surgery...
Journal Article
Social Text (2011) 29 (1 (106)): 43–69.
Published: 01 March 2011
... animal experimentation inevitably precedes human surgeries and, further, because many founding figures within Social Text 106 • Vol. 29, No. 1 • Spring 2011 DOI 10.1215/016424721210265  © 2011 Duke University Press 4 3...
Journal Article
Social Text (2001) 19 (3 (68)): 115–129.
Published: 01 September 2001
... medical rationality. For the diagnostic penetration of the medical spectator is meant to be a prelude to prescription and cure. The medical optic is an anticipatory form of plastic surgery that has altered Gioconda’s historical identity. The convergence...
Journal Article
Social Text (2014) 32 (4 (121)): 105–113.
Published: 01 December 2014
... County’s South Coast Repertory, St. Jude is an autobiographical memoir, its title referencing both the Catholic patron saint of desperate causes and the hospital where Alfaro’s eighty-­year-­old father undergoes two surgeries, suffers...
Journal Article
Social Text (2020) 38 (2 (143)): 49–71.
Published: 01 June 2020
... procedure to rejuvenate middle-aged cisgender women, underscoring the links between glandular rejuvenation and early gender-affirmation surgeries. 25 Premarin is no longer recommended for transitioning women due to an increased likelihood of blood clots. The estrogens prescribed today, as well...
Journal Article
Social Text (2014) 32 (3 (120)): 1–10.
Published: 01 September 2014
...), gastric bypass surgery in India (Solomon), charter schools across the United States (Moreton), the factory floors of Indonesia (Rudnyckyj), and nineteenth-­century urinals (Modern). Each article disassembles the will in its sites of constitution...
Journal Article
Social Text (2015) 33 (1 (122)): 49–70.
Published: 01 March 2015
...-­definition perfection and from the way in which Vera’s surface literally erases time — no traces are left of the multiple surgeries that have composed her perfection (fig. 1). Vera’s status is closely related to the real time of the television used...
Journal Article
Social Text (2020) 38 (4 (145)): 125–147.
Published: 01 December 2020
... as a category; synthetic hormones and body modifying surgeries became available to particular, mainly white middle-class populations. But twentieth-century trans medicine itself produced a transgender whiteness we contend with now as a racialized biopolitical sorting of populations into recognizable...
Journal Article
Social Text (2007) 25 (4 (93)): 43–66.
Published: 01 December 2007
... numb as a Lubbock doctor ticked off options,” to them. reads a story reprinted from the Houston Chronicle dealing with a couple deciding about surgery for an infant with a heart defect. The article revolves around the parents’ process of seeking information and making a choice...
Journal Article
Social Text (2017) 35 (2 (131)): 93–118.
Published: 01 June 2017
... . Kubler-Ross Elizabeth . 1970 . On Death and Dying . London : Tavistock . Kuechle J. B. McGrath B. E. Khoury T. Mindell E. R. 2014 . “ A Case of Long Term Survival with Skeletal Only Metastatic Breast Cancer .” International Journal of Surgery Case Reports 6C : 280 – 84...
FIGURES | View All (4)
Journal Article
Social Text (2010) 28 (3 (104)): 39–65.
Published: 01 September 2010
... to the clinic here, then they sent me to the hospital. When I got to the hospital, they told me that I was supposed to have surgery because I was carrying two children; one was good, the other one wasn’t. Then, later on, they told me they had removed both...
Journal Article
Social Text (2021) 39 (3 (148)): 55–77.
Published: 01 September 2021
... have legitimate mental conditions do resources such as hormones, surgeries, and coverage become thinkable (though not always, or often, available). I assert that this double bind derives from two related histories. First, film and television have long represented gender-crossing people as dangerously...
Journal Article
Social Text (2002) 20 (2 (71)): 49–64.
Published: 01 June 2002
... beautiful: A cultural history of aesthetic surgery . Princeton,N.J.: Princeton University Press. Gould, Stephen Jay. 1996 . The mismeasure of man . New York: Norton. Haraway. 1989 . Primate visions: Gender, race,and nature in the world of science . New York: Routledge. Herrnstein, Richard J...
Journal Article
Social Text (2019) 37 (2): 1–28.
Published: 01 June 2019
... through the application of human labor that nature can be legally converted into property. It is within this framework of nature and culture that the law performs what Sheila Jasanoff calls “ontological surgery,” as it “constructs both life and capital and, more specifically, demarcates those aspects...
Journal Article
Social Text (2022) 40 (3 (152)): 17–35.
Published: 01 September 2022
... to her presentation of COVID-like symptoms. Fearon had been induced because she had developed what seemed like preeclampsia, and though she had been scheduled for a cesarean section at Andrews, the team of anesthesiologists “refused to participate in the surgery.” 32 Doctors attempted to transfer...
Journal Article
Social Text (2020) 38 (1 (142)): 67–88.
Published: 01 March 2020
... after I left the penitentiary. I am not ashamed anymore. I am as poor as they come, and it is just me and my daughter.” House arrest as a site of neglect punishes women even more harshly when they are migrants, Indigenous, and/or survivors of abuse. Amalia had come to Argentina from Peru for surgery...
Journal Article
Social Text (2017) 35 (1 (130)): 79–99.
Published: 01 March 2017
... surgeries, one marriage, one separation, one amputation, and two children after being blown up by an improvised explosive device (IED) in Iraq—Jake could be counted as one of roughly 45,500 who had been medevaced out of Iraq, one of 1,200 who had partial or total limb amputations, and one of 7,800 who had...
Journal Article
Social Text (2015) 33 (2 (123)): 1–27.
Published: 01 June 2015
...-­first century might, in fact, look more like the nineteenth century, when the Civil War and industrialization first produced mass maiming of American bodies, than like the twentieth century, which featured instantly fatal forms of warfare, advanced limb-­saving surgery, and widely avail- able...
Journal Article
Social Text (2015) 33 (2 (123)): 29–55.
Published: 01 June 2015
... designed it to work as “wonder drug and death sentence all in one,” inducing an immediate addiction that can only be overcome through death.33 In an effort to treat this addiction, Dr. Axel Bel-­Nan performs experimental cell-­transplant surgery...
Journal Article
Social Text (2020) 38 (2 (143)): 19–47.
Published: 01 June 2020
... Study , 487 . 15 International Committee of the Red Cross, Treatment of Fourteen “High-Value Detainees,” 34 . 16 Ruiz et al., “Letter to the United Nations Committee against Torture,” 3 ; Rosenberg, “ ‘Sodomized’ Guantánamo Captive to Undergo Rectal Surgery.” 17 Guenther...
FIGURES