Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-204) and index.
Contents:
Epilogue: slow time and unprecedence. The desification of the doctor and the ends of medicine -- The doctor, undone: the rise of physician chaplaincy -- Styles of Asian American illness -- Illness as method -- Epilogue: slow time and unprecedence.
Summary:
"Pedagogies of Woundedness wonders what happens when illness betrays fantasies of indefinite progress to those entrusted to live out this role framed by success: Asian Americans"-- Provided by publisher. "The pressures Asian Americans feel to be socially and economically exceptional include an unspoken mandate to always be healthy. Nowhere is this more evident than in the expectation for Asian Americans to enter the field of medicine, principally as providers of care rather than those who require care. Pedagogies of Woundedness explores what happens when those considered model minorities critically engage with illness and medicine whether as patients or physicians. James Kyung-Jin Lee considers how popular culture often positions Asian Americans as medical authorities and what that racial characterization means. Addressing the recent trend of writing about sickness, disability, and death, Lee shows how this investment in Asian American health via the model minority is itself a response to older racial forms that characterize Asian American bodies as diseased. Moreover, he pays attention to what happens when academics get sick and how illness becomes both methodology and an archive for scholars. Pedagogies of Woundedness also explores the limits of biomedical "care," the rise of physician chaplaincy, and the impact of COVID. Throughout his book and these case studies, Lee shows the social, ethical, and political consequences of these common (mis)conceptions that often define Asian Americans in regard to health and illness." -- Publisher's description
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