Entanglements
Journal of Posthumanities

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Dis-ease: The Affective Experience of Being Hospital-adjacent
Authored By — Philippa Nicoll Antipas

Abstract

In this piece of writing-as-analysis (Sharon Murphy Augustine), I seek to make sense of my body’s affective response – the heebie-jeebies – to working at a satellite university campus that is co-located with a hospital. Thinking-with Jane Bennett, Karen Barad, and Donna Haraway, I recount three vignettes – three confrontations – between my body and medical entities that provoke the heebie-jeebies: a feeling of dis-ease. I conclude that staying with the sense of dis-ease may in fact afford the opportunity for doing and being differently in my role as lecturer and education advisor at a medical school.

Keywords

Affect, dis-ease, writing-as-analysis, medical education

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