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Feeling Medicine: How the Pelvic Exam Shapes Medical Training

Feeling Medicine: How the Pelvic Exam Shapes Medical Training

Underman, Kelly

Hardcover

Series: Biopolitics, Book 21

Medical ReferenceAnthropologyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1479897787
ISBN13: 9781479897780
Publisher: New York Univ Pr
Published: Aug 18 2020
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.27
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Honorable Mention, Sociology of the Body and Embodiment Best Publication Award, given by the Body and Embodiment Section of the American Sociological Association

The emotional and social components of teaching medical students to be good doctors

The 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.

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