John Gulledge
John Gulledge
This article discusses relics housed in the Ringling Circus Museum in Sarasota, Florida: photos, works of art, newspaper clippings, performance records, and scrapbooks of mostly 19th- and 20th-century circus performers with varied, often "u...
Jaime Konerman-Sease
Jaime Konerman-Sease
This article examines three debates over the nature of human specimens: anatomical dissection in Victorian Britain, the question of ownership over Henrietta Lacks's cells, and recent debates over how to treat remnants of abortion. These cas...
Koan: Leonard laughing [0.03%]
禅宗公案：莱纳德在大笑
Tracy Fessenden
Tracy Fessenden
Leonard Norman Primiano (1957-2021), esteemed folklorist and ethnographer of religion, relied for 16 years on assistive technology to speak. Described by an anonymous reviewer as "our ever-vanguard of thought, work, and ethics, not to menti...
Yomi Sachiko Young
Yomi Sachiko Young
The author invites us to accompany her from sun up to sun down as she shares the routines that create a sustaining environment for her family. She describes the assistive devices, modifications to her home and vehicle, and the strong care n...
Donning the Imaging Gown: Enchanting the Ill and Pregnant Body in Art [0.03%]
披上影像的长袍：艺术中的疾病与孕妇身体的魅力形象化
Darian Goldin Stahl
Darian Goldin Stahl
The hospital gown is a particularly charged article of clothing. For the chronically ill and disabled, the ritual of donning the gown signals a change of identity from "person" to "patient." This essay chronicles the metamorphosis of a stan...
Anne Finger
Anne Finger
This first-person essay explores wonder in the medical encounter from a patient's point of view, considering times when medical technology has given the author insight into her body and the wonder that has been evoked by these experiences. ...
Julia Watts Belser
Julia Watts Belser
In her landmark volume Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson argues that the Enlightenment heralded a striking change in the way European and American thinkers conceptualized disability-away from...
Brian Brock
Brian Brock
Wonder is a gateway, not a machine. It is not something that can be functionalized for the purposes of education, moral uplift, or humanizing medicine. The things and experiences that evoke wonder today have their own history. Inhabitants o...
Scans and Prints [0.03%]
扫描和打印
Devan Stahl
Devan Stahl
This essay reflects on occasions when images of the author's body stirred wonder and challenged the author's understanding of her relationship to her body. Wonder is not a sentimental or romantic feeling, but an intermingling of both admira...
Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
Rosemarie Garland-Thomson