E Stephens

Biographic Data

ID15631
NAMEE Stephens
GIVEN NAMESE
FAMILY NAMEStephens
SIGNATURESTEPHENS E
AFFILIATIONSThe University of Queensland
ORCID0000-0002-9109-1598
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS32
TOTAL CITATIONS27
AUTHOR COUNT32
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1996
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX3

  • "Artificial Mothers" on Display

    E StephensARTICLETechnology and Culture2024

    For the first four decades of the twentieth century, premature babies in the United States were primarily treated in infant incubators not in hospitals, but in a public setting-at the Coney Island amusement park. Although incubators are now an indispensable medical device, their origins lie in public exhibitions rather than a professional medical environment. This article uncovers the longer history behind this unusual episode in neonatal care an…

  • Efficiency and the Productive Body

    Open AccessE StephensARTICLEBody & Society2024References: 15

    This article examines the images of working bodies seen in the photographic motion studies of work undertaken by the management consultants Frank and Lillian Gilbreth in the 1910s and 1920s. It contextualises their studies, called chronocyclegraphs, as the product of two key cultural developments: first, new practices of measuring and assessing productivity in the context of workplace management and second, the use of new technologies for visuali…

  • How Hospitalized Older Adults and Physicians Negotiate Plan-of-Care Decisions during Daily Rounds

    Kristen E Pecanac, Emily LeSage et al.ARTICLEHealth Communication2023

    The purpose of this study is to explore how older adults and physicians negotiate the plan of care during daily rounds in the hospital setting. We audio-recorded 40 physician-patient interactions during daily rounds in a small teaching hospital. We analyzed the data using conversation analysis, a qualitative method that examines the turns-of-talk during interactions. We focused the analysis on how physicians introduced the plan of care and how th…

  • Celebrating 30 years of the CSAA

    E Stephens, Baden Offord et al.ARTICLEContinuum2023

  • After the normal

    Open AccessE StephensARTICLEHistory of the Human Sciences2021Cited by: 1References: 5

  • Normality

    Open AccessPeter Cryle, E StephensARTICLEHistory of the Human Sciences2021

    This article introduces a collection of articles written in response to a recently published intellectual and cultural history of normality by Peter Cryle and Elizabeth Stephens. It points to the fact that this special issue considerably extends and enriches the topical range of the book. The articles that follow discuss, in order, schooling in France at the time of the Revolution, phrenology in Europe and the US from 1840 to 1940, relations betw…

  • Precarious futures

    E Stephens, Karin Sellberg et al.ARTICLEContinuum2020References: 1

    This article introduces the special issue of Continuum on ‘Precarious Futures: Cultural Studies in Pandemic Times’. The issue arises out of the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia conference ‘Cultural Transformation’ held in December 2019, in Meanjin (Brisbane), on the land of the Jagera and Turrbal peoples. The articles in this special issue originate from this conference, and have thus been written and revised in the unusually difficult…

  • Medical humanities research showcase

    Karin Sellberg, E Stephens et al.ARTICLEContinuum2020References: 5

    This brief showcase of the medical humanities research networks and collaborations emerging at the University of Queensland explores the role this interdisciplinary field may play in post-pandemic Australasia. Suggesting that cultural, social and historical negotiations with medicine will become increasingly important as our societies recover from the COVID-19 crisis, the showcase presents case studies and perspectives from medical educators and …

  • Speculative biology

    E StephensARTICLEContinuum2020References: 2

    This paper examines a series of experimental art-science projects that attempt to resurrect dead or endangered forms of life. Focusing on works by Marguerite Humeau, Diemut Strebe, Pinar Yoldas and Svenja Kratz, each of which was developed in close collaboration with scientists, often in laboratory environments, the paper approaches art-science collaborations of this sort as a flourishing field of emerging and experimental art. It takes as its ce…

  • Post-normal

    Open AccessE StephensARTICLEMedia International Australia2020Cited by: 1References: 4

    This article examines the ubiquity of discussion about the normal in media commentary on the coronavirus pandemic. Almost all media commentary on the pandemic references a hope that things will soon, or at least eventually, 'return to normal'. Yet what is meant by the normal is rarely the subject of explicit description; rather, its meaning is almost always taken for granted. This article examines the centrality of the concept of the normal to me…

  • Notnormal

    Open AccessE StephensARTICLECultural Studies Review2019Cited by: 1

  • Eugenics and the normal body

    E Stephens, Peter CryleARTICLEContinuum2017Cited by: 1References: 3

    This article examines how the emergence of a statistical concept of the normal at the end of the nineteenth century led to the development of a theory of eugenics, and examines the cultural pathways by which this theory came to shape both the public perception and institutional treatment of people now understood as disabled. The statistical idea of the normal and the theory of eugenics were developed simultaneously in the work of one man: Francis…

  • Family Caregiver Communication in the ICU

    Amanda Young, E Stephens et al.ARTICLEJournal of Family Communication2016Cited by: 1References: 5

    ABSRACTWe interviewed 18 family caregivers about their communication experiences in the ICUs at an urban hospital. Analysis of their narratives suggests health literacy is important in family caregiver/healthcare provider communication, especially as complicated illnesses move the caregiver deeper into decision making. Using the domains of Yuen et al.’s conceptual model of caregiver health literacy (2015), we identified three themes within the co…

  • Dead Eyes Open”

    E StephensARTICLELeonardo2015

    During the first decades of the 19th century, a number of prominent scientists conducted experiments in the revival of dead organisms using new galvanic technologies. In several cases, these experiments were conducted on human bodies, using the corpses of executed criminals. Such experiments captured the cultural imaginary of the day, posing new questions about the relationship between emergent technologies, automated movement, and human agency. …

  • The Anatomy Murders

    E StephensARTICLEJournal of the History of…2014

    Journal Article The Anatomy Murders: Being the True and Spectacular History of Edinburgh's Notorious Burke and Hare and the Man of Science Who Abetted Them in the Commission of Their Most Heinous Crimes Get access Lisa Rosner. The Anatomy Murders: Being the True and Spectacular History of Edinburgh's Notorious Burke and Hare and the Man of Science Who Abetted Them in the Commission of Their Most Heinous Crimes. Philadelphia, University of Pennsyl…

  • Normal

    E StephensARTICLETSQ Transgender Studies Quarterly2014Cited by: 6References: 3

    This section includes eighty-six short original essays commissioned for the inaugural issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. Written by emerging academics, community-based writers, and senior scholars, each essay in this special issue, "Postposttranssexual: Key Concepts for a Twenty-First-Century Transgender Studies," revolves around a particular keyword or concept. Some contributions focus on a concept central to transgender studies; other…

  • The bad homosexual

    Open AccessE StephensARTICLESexualities2012

    Although widely recognized as pivotal texts in the history of homosexual literature, Genet’s novels occupied a largely negative position within gay criticism of the 1990s, by which they were seen to reproduce heterocentric, even homophobic assumptions about same-sex desire. This article argues that Genet’s contentious decision to articulate homoerotic desire within the space of a heteronormative language is one necessitated by the structural cons…

  • Anatomical Imag(inari)es

    Open AccessE StephensARTICLESomatechnics2012References: 2

    The 'eyes' made available in modern technological sciences shatter any idea of passive vision; these prosthetic devices show us that all eyes, including our own organic ones, are active perceptual systems, building on translations and specific ways of seeing, that is, ways of life. There is no unmediated photograph or passive camera obscura in scientific accounts of bodies and machines; there are only highly specific visual possibilities, each wi…

  • Sensation machine

    E StephensARTICLEContinuum2012

    This paper aims to extend recent work in feminist phenomenological film theory by contextualizing its turn to the tactile within the longer history of the philosophy of the senses and their training. Following the work of Vivian Sobchack, a recent generation of feminist film theorists have drawn on phenomenological understandings of embodiment to argue that while film criticism has focused, almost exclusively, on the visible, intelligible qualiti…

  • Julie K. Brown, Health and Medicine on Display

    E StephensARTICLESocial History of Medicine2011

    Following on from her earlier texts, Making Culture Visible: The Public Display of Photography at Fairs, Expositions, and Exhibitions in the United States, 1847–1900 (Routledge Harwood, 2001) and Contesting Images: Photography and the World's Columbian Exposition (University of Arizona Press, 1994), Julie K. Brown's most recent study, Health and Medicine on Display, provides an exhaustive and invaluable guide to the role of health and medicine ex…

  • Larry Schehr

    Murray Pratt, E Stephens et al.ARTICLEAustralian Journal of French…2011

  • Queer Memoir

    E StephensARTICLEAustralian Humanities Review2010

  • Sex as a normalising technology

    E StephensARTICLEPsychology and Sexuality2010Cited by: 1References: 1

    This article examines the conceptual interdependence of sexuality and normality. It begins with an interrogation of the widespread association of queer studies and practice with, in Judith Halberstam's words, ‘nonnormative logics and organisations of community, sexual identity, embodiment, and activity’. To contextualise this, the article traces the historical circumstances in which normality and sexuality emerge contemporaneously, as mutually re…

  • The Cultural Turn in the US-Israeli Relationship

    Steve Morewood, E StephensARTICLEMiddle East Journal of Culture…2009

    The 'special relationship' between the United States and Israel has endured for more than four decades and is one of the more anomalous global political alliances. Conventional explanations have consistently failed to elucidate the underlying nuances of a relationship that has endured the transition from the Cold War to the unipolar world to the present day 'war on terror' and is often costly to the USA in economic and geostrategic terms. This ar…

  • Coining Spermatorrhoea

    Open AccessE StephensARTICLESexualities2009Cited by: 4References: 4

    When Lallemand coined the term spermatorrhée in the first volume of Des pertes séminales involontaires (1838), an earlier discourse on 'seminal weakness' was transformed into something new: a recognizable and treatable medical disorder, with its own specific aetiology and nosology. To the symptoms of seminal weakness - blushing, crying, breathlessness, melancholy, lack of confidence and extreme sensitivity - were added symptoms such as spermatozo…