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- Holm, Marie-Louise
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Fleshing out the self : Reimagining intersexed and trans embodied lives through (auto)biographical accounts of the past
- 2017
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis explores how current ways of imagining possibilities for intersexed and trans embodied lives within medical contexts might be informed by and reimagined through the historical lived experiences of intersexed and trans individuals as they have been articulated in autobiographical accounts.Postmodern, queer, intersex, and trans researchers and activists have criticised existing standards of intersex and trans healthcare for limiting the possibilities for diverse embodied lives by articulating certain forms of embodiment and selfhood as more likely to enable a liveable life than others. This has often been done in a medico-legal context by referring to experiences in the past of the unliveability of corporealities and gendersexed situations that differ from privileged positions. With a point of departure in these critiques, this thesis reopens questions about how intersexed and trans people may be embodied and have relations with others by reflecting upon the period of the first three-quarters of the 20th century, when the present standards of care and diagnostic categories were emerging, but had not yet become established.Drawing upon a unique set of historical source material from the archives of the Danish Ministry of Justice and the Medico-Legal Council, intersexed and trans persons’ life stories are rearticulated from their own and medico-legal experts’ accounts written in relation to applications for change of legal gendersex status and medical transition. In this way, the process is traced through which these life stories have been repeatedly rearticulated in order to become a usable basis for diagnosis and decision-making. At the same time, the stories are unfolded once more in a rearticulation focusing on their complexity and diversity.
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- Mauthner, Oliver, et al.
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Heart transplants: : Identity disruption, bodily integrity and interconnectedness
- 2015
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Ingår i: Health. - : Sage Publications. - 1363-4593. ; 19:6, s. 578-594
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Of heart transplant recipients, 30 per cent report ongoing or episodic emotional issues post-transplant, which are not attributable to medications or pathophysiological changes. To this end, our team theorized that cardiac transplantation introduces pressing new questions about how patients incorporate a transplanted heart into their sense of self and how this impacts their identity. The work of Merleau-Ponty provided the theoretical underpinning for this project as it rationalizes how corporeal changes affect one’s self and offer an innovative framework to access these complex aspects of living with a transplanted heart. We used visual methodology and recorded 25 semi-structured interviews videographically. Both visual and verbal data were analyzed at the same time in an iterative process. The most common theme was that participants expressed a disruption to their own identity and bodily integrity. Additionally, participants reported interconnectedness with the donor, even when the transplanted heart was perceived as an intruder or stranger. Finally, transplant recipients were very vivid in their descriptions and speculation of how they imagined the donor. Receiving an anonymous donor organ from a stranger often leaves the recipient with questions about who they themselves are now. Our study provides a nuanced understanding of heart transplant recipients’ embodied experiences of self and identity. Insights gained are valuable to educate transplant professionals to develop new supportive interventions both pre- and post-transplant, and to improve the process of informed consent. Ultimately, such insights could be used to enable heart transplant recipients to incorporate the graft optimally over time, easing distress and improving recovery.
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- McCormack, Donna, et al.
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Monster Talk : A Virtual Roundtable with Mark Bould, Liv Bugge, Surekha Davies, Margrit Shildrick and Jeffrey
- 2018
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Ingår i: Somatechnics. - : Edinburgh University Press. - 2044-0138 .- 2044-0146. ; 8:2, s. 248-268
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This roundtable brings together scholars and artists working with the monster and the monstrous. It took place between December 2017 and June 2018 via email. Participants responded to an initial email question from me, and then to each other's responses, along with framing questions from me. The ‘temporality, polyvocality, and virtual space of this roundtable’ (Dinshaw et al. 2007: 177) evokes this roundtable's indebtedness to scholars in the fields of queer and critical ethnic studies, as well as bringing to the fore the monstrous in its unstable and individually collective form. I am grateful to the invitees who came to the table and shared their time and thoughts.
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- Poole, Jennifer, et al.
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Grief and loss for patients before and after heart transplant
- 2016
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Ingår i: Heart & Lung. - Philadelphia, PA, USA : Mosby, Inc.. - 0147-9563 .- 1527-3288. ; 45:3, s. 193-198
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- ObjectivesThe purpose of the study was to examine the loss and grief experiences of patients waiting for and living with new hearts.BackgroundThere is much scholarship on loss and grief. Less attention has been paid to these issues in clinical transplantation, and even less on the patient experience.MethodsPart of a qualitative inquiry oriented to the work of Merleau-Ponty, a secondary analysis was carried out on audiovisual data from interviews with thirty participants.ResultsPatients experience loss and three forms of grief. Pre-transplant patients waiting for transplant experience loss and anticipatory grief related to their own death and the future death of their donor. Transplanted patients experience long-lasting complicated grief with respect to the donor and disenfranchised grief which may not be sanctioned.ConclusionsLoss as well as anticipatory, complicated and disenfranchised grief may have been inadvertently disregarded or downplayed. More research and attention is needed.
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- Shildrick, Margrit, 1949-, et al.
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Before the Cut : Rethinking Genital Identity
- 2018
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Ingår i: Body, Migration, Re/constructive Surgeries. - London : Routledge. - 9780815354192 ; , s. 272-287
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The reconstruction of the body in trans and intersex conditions has both a well-established history in the last few decades and a worrying conceptual incoherence. Whilst many of those seeking to cement genital identity may understandably see it as an acceptable and welcome intervention, going under the knife raises all sorts of theoretical and bioethical questions not simply for immediate participants but for the wider socio-psychic understanding of gender. We shall address the troubling dimensions of body modification through the lens of feminist and postmodernist thought, which intrinsically seeks to engage equally with the instability of biological identity and of sociocultural construction. The chapter will outline a broadly Deleuzian approach that posits the body as a dynamic assemblage and draws on recent research into microchimerism that throws further doubt on the problematic of sexual difference.
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- Shildrick, Margrit, 1949-
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Chimerism and immunitas : the emergence of a posthumanist biophilosophy
- 2015
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Ingår i: Resisting Biopolitics<em> </em>. - New York : Routledge. - 9781138789487 ; , s. 95-109
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The chapter draws on biomedical research, including my own around organ transplantation, to look specifically at how the event of (micro)chimerism contests the discourse of the self’s immunity to the other. In the face of a socio-cultural imaginary that insists on the singularity of the human, the authorised discourse remains, nevertheless, largely unchanged, stressing the importance of securing immunity not only in biomedicine - where the search is for a functional explanation of (micro)chimerism that will preserve the status quo - but also in biopolitics. I speculate on the problematic in a way that turns to Esposito's thinking of immunitas and to the Deleuzian concept of assemblage as a better model for organic life, including human life.
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- Shildrick, Margrit, 1949-
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Death, debility and disability
- 2015
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Ingår i: Feminism and Psychology. - : Sage Publications. - 0959-3535 .- 1461-7161. ; 25:1, s. 155-160
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)
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- Shildrick, Margrit, 1949-, et al.
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Estranged Bodies : Shifting paradigms and the biomedical imaginary
- 2015
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Ingår i: Body & Society. - : Sage Publications. - 1357-034X .- 1460-3632. ; 21:3
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This introductory article provides a contextual and theoretical overview to this special issue of Body & Society. The special issue presents five selected case studies – focusing on the contexts of transplantation, psychiatry, amputation and war, and a transvalued media ecology of cancer – to offer meditations on a number of interlinked questions. The first of these is the entanglement of biomedical governance – political/economic as well as self-disciplinary – with the nexus of estrangement, which can denote both the distancing of otherness and self-division. Second is the realm of feeling, of phantasmatic projection and of the ways in which the biopolitical becomes reciprocally, discursively, enmeshed in a wider cultural imaginary. Third is the shifting terrain of gender and feminist politics, a key dimension of which is the necessary reworking of feminist thought in the wake of a radically altered biomedical and biotechnological landscape. Under the rubric of Estranged Bodies, the collection considers themes of dissolution and the fragility of the body/subject read through bodily catastrophe, radical body modification and extreme medical intervention. Also considered is the notion of assemblage – the provisional coming together of disparate parts – which encourages a rethinking of questions of reconstituted, displaced and re-placed bodies.
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- Shildrick, Margrit, 1949-
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Re/membering the Body
- 2018
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Ingår i: A Feminist Companion to the Posthumanities. - Cham : Springer. - 9783319621388 - 9783319621401 ; , s. 165-174
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- My chapter traces the development and implications of re/membering the body, following on from the somatophobia of early 2nd wave feminist scholarship that saw attention to bodily matters as a potential point of hostile ambush. Where the conventional tropes of modernism insist on a conceptual split between mind and body, and recognize only one form of ‘proper’ embodiment, postmodernist thought has supported a reinstatement of the corporeal. The turn away from the rigid binaries of dominant ways of thinking – whether in the humanities or sciences – has mobilised not simply the emergence of a feminist phenomenology of embodiment, but a growing appreciation of the place of the sciences in understanding the materiality of the body. At the same time, the extension of challenging bioscientific technologies directed to the body and its practices indicates that the recovery of fleshiness is not a final step. More radically, contemporary bioscience demands a reconsideration of what it means to be human. My approach relies on the concept of leaky bodies and stresses that instability and fluidity are the catalyst for alternative, more productive ways of thinking about corporeality and embodied subjectivity. As the boundaries of the body and of the human are ever more contested, it becomes clearer why the resulting sense of exposure to otherness in all its forms, and the inherent vulnerability of the contingent self, necessitate a new configuration of bioethics. The encounter with otherness –those unlike myself in terms of morphology or putative origin; prosthetic supplementarity; or the intracorporeality of the microbiome - speak to a corporeal ethics that understands risk and vulnerability as the very possibility of becoming.
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- Shildrick, Margrit, 1949-
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Sex
- 2015
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Ingår i: Key Words for Disability Studies. - New York, USA : New York University Press. - 9781479839520 ; , s. 164-166
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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