Title Feeling medicine : how the pelvic exam shapes medical training / Kelly Underman

Published New York : New York University Press, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource (205 pages) Series Biopolitics : medicine, technoscience, and health in the twenty-first century series Biopolitics (New York, N.Y.) Contents Introduction. The quandary of the sacred vagina : medical education in a new era -- The pelvic exam and the politics of care -- From assessing knowledge to assessing performance : GTA programs, medical education research, and technologies of affect -- "This power with my body" : intimate authority in GTA sessions -- Practicing professionalism, performing authenticity -- "What does it mean to relax your hand?" : learning to feel with the body in the pelvic exam -- Not just bones, organs, and science : the new clinical subjects of patient empowerment -- Conclusion. Is the vagina different than the mouth? Affect and the making of physicians Summary The emotional and social components of teaching medical students to be good doctorsThe pelvic exam is considered a fundamental procedure for medical students to learn; it is also often the one of the first times where medical students are required to touch a real human being in a professional manner. In Feeling Medicine, Kelly Underman gives us a look inside these gynecological teaching programs, showing how they embody the tension between scientific thought and human emotion in medical education. Drawing on interviews with medical students, faculty, and the people who use their own bodies to teach this exam, Underman offers the first in-depth examination of this essential, but seldom discussed, aspect of medical education. Through studying, teaching, and learning about the pelvic exam, she contrasts the technical and emotional dimensions of learning to be a physician. Ultimately, Feeling Medicine explores what it means to be a good doctor in the twenty-first century, particularly in an era of corporatized healthcare Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based upon print version of record Subject Gynecology -- Study and teaching -- United States Physicians -- Training of -- United States Pelvis -- Examination -- Social aspects -- United States Human anatomy -- Models -- United States Gynecologist and patient -- United States Gynecology -- education Gynecological Examination SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General. Gynecologist and patient Gynecology -- Study and teaching Human anatomy -- Models Physicians -- Training of SUBJECT United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 Subject United States Form Electronic book ISBN 9781479836338 1479836338 9781479878666 1479878669

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