Michaela Clark
Biographic Data
| ID | 5226882 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michaela Clark |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michaela |
| FAMILY NAME | Clark |
| SIGNATURE | CLARK M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stellenbosch University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4109-4379 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Tentative traces: An alternative ethics for historical medical photographs
Historical photographs of patients pose a complex set of ethical concerns, straddling boundaries between public knowledge and confidential medical data. As visual records, they reveal not only clinical symptoms but also personal features that can make this material feel uniquely exposing. The article explores the conceptual limbo that surrounds these images, highlighting the interdisciplinary concerns that surface when considering this material f…
Surface Tensions: Race, Photography, and the Making of Universal Medical Knowledge in Segregationist South Africa
This article uses a close reading of clinical photographs to demonstrate how ambiguities surrounding the ostensibly scopic nature of race—that is, race as both conspicuous and measurable based on surface appearance—functioned in the medical terrain in segregationist South Africa, and beyond. By analyzing both archival and published materials produced and used during the mid-twentieth century at Cape Town’s medical school, the author argues that r…
Building Schools, Making Doctors: Architecture and the Modern American Physician , Katherine L. Carroll
Redress at Higher Education Institutions in South Africa: Mapping a Way Forward
While higher education (HE) institutions in South Africa have become demographically ever more diverse, transcultural contact among students and staff members has seemingly failed to mend race-based prejudices and structural inequality. By acknowledging the embeddedness of symbolic violence in physical space and lived experience, this article proposes an experimental and embodied approach to critically engage with ongoing structural and symbolic …
Patients, Power and Representation: Clinical Photographs in Focus
Historically framed as a “violent” medium, photography poses a series of ethical questions about what it means to look at vulnerable individuals. Yet, when it comes to photographs of the clinically unwell, concerns as to patient consent, private vs public ownership, and institutional responsibility circle even more acutely. Such material speaks to what Jane Nicholas has called the “fundamental tension in historical practice”—to both study and saf…
Redress at Higher Education Institutions in South Africa: Mapping a Way Forward
While higher education (HE) institutions in South Africa have become demographically ever more diverse, transcultural contact among students and staff members has seemingly failed to mend race-based prejudices and structural inequality. By acknowledging the embeddedness of symbolic violence in physical space and lived experience, this article proposes an experimental and embodied approach to critically engage with ongoing structural and symbolic …
Patients, Power and Representation: Clinical Photographs in Focus
Historically framed as a “violent” medium, photography poses a series of ethical questions about what it means to look at vulnerable individuals. Yet, when it comes to photographs of the clinically unwell, concerns as to patient consent, private vs public ownership, and institutional responsibility circle even more acutely. Such material speaks to what Jane Nicholas has called the “fundamental tension in historical practice”—to both study and saf…
Redress at Higher Education Institutions in South Africa: Mapping a Way Forward
While higher education (HE) institutions in South Africa have become demographically ever more diverse, transcultural contact among students and staff members has seemingly failed to mend race-based prejudices and structural inequality. By acknowledging the embeddedness of symbolic violence in physical space and lived experience, this article proposes an experimental and embodied approach to critically engage with ongoing structural and symbolic …
Building Schools, Making Doctors: Architecture and the Modern American Physician , Katherine L. Carroll
Surface Tensions: Race, Photography, and the Making of Universal Medical Knowledge in Segregationist South Africa
This article uses a close reading of clinical photographs to demonstrate how ambiguities surrounding the ostensibly scopic nature of race—that is, race as both conspicuous and measurable based on surface appearance—functioned in the medical terrain in segregationist South Africa, and beyond. By analyzing both archival and published materials produced and used during the mid-twentieth century at Cape Town’s medical school, the author argues that r…
Tentative traces: An alternative ethics for historical medical photographs
Historical photographs of patients pose a complex set of ethical concerns, straddling boundaries between public knowledge and confidential medical data. As visual records, they reveal not only clinical symptoms but also personal features that can make this material feel uniquely exposing. The article explores the conceptual limbo that surrounds these images, highlighting the interdisciplinary concerns that surface when considering this material f…
Empathy and Medical Education (3 works) · Digital Imaging in Medicine (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · South African History and Culture (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Architecture (1 works) · Argument (complex analysis) (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Art history (1 works)