Caitjan Gainty
Biographic Data
| ID | 1636166 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Caitjan Gainty |
| GIVEN NAMES | Caitjan |
| FAMILY NAME | Gainty |
| SIGNATURE | GAINTY C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7760-4652 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Christine E. Hallett, Veiled Warriors: Allied Nurses of the First World War
Items for criticism (not in sequence)’: Joseph DeLee, Pare Lorentz and The Fight for Life (1940)
In the late 1920s, the American obstetrician Joseph DeLee brought the motion-picture camera into the birth room. Following that era's trend of adapting industrial efficiency practices for medical environments, DeLee's films give spectacular and unexpected expression to the engineering concept of ‘streamlining’. Accomplishing what more tangible obstetric streamlining practices had failed to, DeLee's cameras, and his post-production manipulation, s…
The Autobiographical Shoulder of Ernest Amory Codman: Crafting Medical Meaning in the Twentieth Century
This essay offers a reconsideration of the historical significance of Ernest Amory Codman's autobiographical preface to his 1934 text The Shoulder, Rupture of the Supraspinatus Tendon and Other Lesions on or about the Subacromial Bursa and its reception, in its own time and at the end of the twentieth century. It concentrates on the aesthetics of identity and the ways in which these are woven into the political, professional, and cultural context…
Going After the High-Brows: Frank Gilbreth and the Surgical Subject, 1912-1917
This article offers a close examination of the early twentieth-century studies of surgical motion conducted by Frank Gilbreth, the celebrated industrial efficiency expert. The willingness of surgeons to submit to Gilbreth's studies challenges conventional historical narratives, which have read these studies primarily as examples of the individual-effacing effects of technocracy. Through an exploration of the multiple motivations that brought surg…
Biomedicine in the Twentieth Century: Practices, Policies and Politics
Journal Article Biomedicine in the Twentieth Century: Practices, Policies and Politics Get access Caroline Hannaway, ed. Biomedicine in the Twentieth Century: Practices, Policies and Politics. Washington, DC, IOS Press, 2008. x, 377 pp., hardcover $182. Caitjan Gainty Caitjan Gainty Doctoral Candidate, University of Chicago, Department of History, 1126 E 59th St, Chicago, Illinois 60637 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Pu…
Going After the High-Brows: Frank Gilbreth and the Surgical Subject, 1912-1917
This article offers a close examination of the early twentieth-century studies of surgical motion conducted by Frank Gilbreth, the celebrated industrial efficiency expert. The willingness of surgeons to submit to Gilbreth's studies challenges conventional historical narratives, which have read these studies primarily as examples of the individual-effacing effects of technocracy. Through an exploration of the multiple motivations that brought surg…
Biomedicine in the Twentieth Century: Practices, Policies and Politics
Journal Article Biomedicine in the Twentieth Century: Practices, Policies and Politics Get access Caroline Hannaway, ed. Biomedicine in the Twentieth Century: Practices, Policies and Politics. Washington, DC, IOS Press, 2008. x, 377 pp., hardcover $182. Caitjan Gainty Caitjan Gainty Doctoral Candidate, University of Chicago, Department of History, 1126 E 59th St, Chicago, Illinois 60637 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Pu…
Going After the High-Brows: Frank Gilbreth and the Surgical Subject, 1912-1917
This article offers a close examination of the early twentieth-century studies of surgical motion conducted by Frank Gilbreth, the celebrated industrial efficiency expert. The willingness of surgeons to submit to Gilbreth's studies challenges conventional historical narratives, which have read these studies primarily as examples of the individual-effacing effects of technocracy. Through an exploration of the multiple motivations that brought surg…
The Autobiographical Shoulder of Ernest Amory Codman: Crafting Medical Meaning in the Twentieth Century
This essay offers a reconsideration of the historical significance of Ernest Amory Codman's autobiographical preface to his 1934 text The Shoulder, Rupture of the Supraspinatus Tendon and Other Lesions on or about the Subacromial Bursa and its reception, in its own time and at the end of the twentieth century. It concentrates on the aesthetics of identity and the ways in which these are woven into the political, professional, and cultural context…
Items for criticism (not in sequence)’: Joseph DeLee, Pare Lorentz and The Fight for Life (1940)
In the late 1920s, the American obstetrician Joseph DeLee brought the motion-picture camera into the birth room. Following that era's trend of adapting industrial efficiency practices for medical environments, DeLee's films give spectacular and unexpected expression to the engineering concept of ‘streamlining’. Accomplishing what more tangible obstetric streamlining practices had failed to, DeLee's cameras, and his post-production manipulation, s…
Christine E. Hallett, Veiled Warriors: Allied Nurses of the First World War
Art (4 works) · History (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices (3 works) · History of Medical Practice (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Library science (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works)