Suzanne Poirier
Biographic Data
| ID | 5886171 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Suzanne Poirier |
| GIVEN NAMES | Suzanne |
| FAMILY NAME | Poirier |
| SIGNATURE | POIRIER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
S. Weir Mitchell, 1829–1914
Reviewed by: S. Weir Mitchell, 1829–1914: Philadelphia’s Literary Physician by Nancy Cervetti Suzanne Poirier (bio) Nancy Cervetti. S. Weir Mitchell, 1829–1914: Philadelphia’s Literary Physician. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2012. xii + 295 pp. Clothbound, $79.95. Physician, scientist, poet and novelist, philanthropist, outdoorsman. There are probably many men and women who could lay claim to such a diverse profile, but f…
Jo Banks and Virginia Woolf—Three Moments
Medical Education and the Embodied Physician
Between 1965 and 2005, over forty books about medical education were published. This essay uses the stories contained in these accounts to study individuals' perspectives on the emotional experience of becoming a physician. In particular, it examines the ways in which experiences has registered themselves on—and in—the very bodies of these men and women. It examines the authors' uses of metaphor, sensory imagery, and physical descriptions in ways…
Editors' Preface
Editors' Preface:Difference and Identity in Medicine Jonathan M. Metzl (bio) and Suzanne Poirier (bio) Calls from within the field of medicine have asked nurses, doctors, and other health-care workers to become more aware of matters of difference. "[B]ias in health care must be corrected not by medical ombudsmen, or by legislation . . . but by a focus on the individual—individual patients and individual doctors," Abraham Verghese writes in the ar…
Special Invitation to Readers
Literature and Medicine - Volume 18, Number 2, Fall 1999
Chicago's War on Syphilis, 1937-1940
Journal Article Chicago's War on Syphilis, 1937–1940: The Times, the Trib, and the Clap Doctor By Suzanne Poirier. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995. x, 271 pp. $42.50, ISBN 0-252-02147-9.) Get access Elizabeth Fee Elizabeth Fee National Library of Mediane, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 3, December 1…
Editors' column
Editors’ Column Suzanne Poirier (bio) and Ann Folwell Stanford (bio) Women, health, literature, and medicine form a constellation of concepts whose various combinations have sparked considerable scholarship, debate, and action over the past quarter of a century. Women have challenged all dimensions of personal and public life that these words evoke. In medicine and literature, women’s presence and contributions have broadened the scope of both fi…
Moral reasoning and Alzheimer's care
Charting the Chart—An Exercise in Interpretation(s)
Charting the Chart—An Exercise in Interpretation(s) Suzanne Poirier, Lorie Rosenblum, Lioness Ayres, Daniel J. Brauner, Barbara F. Sharf, and Ann Folwell Stanford The multiauthored article is standard in the medical sciences, where the politics of the laboratory and the academy often loom larger than the singularity of the argument or grace of its execution. The following paper, however, depends upon the singularity of each of its authors and ha…
Toward a Reciprocity of Systems
S^Toward a Reciprocity of Systems* Suzanne Poirier I dont beUeve in other people's reading of riddles. ... [It is l]ike a person delivering judgment when only half the facts are there. ... I mean its so barren; so easy; giving advice on a system. . . . What a discovery that would be—a system that did not shut out.1 Virginia Woolf wrote these words in 1932, reacting against what she considered to be the "preaching" of D. H. Lawrence in his novels.…
Stories of family caregiving
The voices of the medical record
Language, Thought, and Reality
A Physician's Metamorphosis
clearly suggests that a comprehensive account cannot fail to assess selfexperimentation. Difficulties in Veatch's analysis suggest that universal priorities cannot be profitably set at the level of principles. Following the National Commission, Levine endorses the most promising theoretical approach of seeking a sensitive balance among the various moral considerations implicated in the conduct of clinical research
Ethics and the Daily Language of Medical Discourse
Ethics and Daily Language of Medical Discourse Medicine is and always has been a profession that relies heavily on narrative. [1] Considerable writing has been done about psychiatric study as literature, but medical report can also be approached from a literary perspective and studied with many of same methodologies that one would apply to a literary genre. [2] The work of French theoretician Jacques Derrida is especially applicable to medical di…
Emma Goldman, Ben Reitman, and Reitman's wives
Emma Goldman — Voltarine [l]e Cleyre — Louise Michels — Women Rebels — Angela Balabanoff — Anna Bessant — Maria Breshkovski — Margaret Fuller — Frances Wright — Blatavsky — Florence Nightingale — Madame Curie — Mary Baker Eddy1
The physician and authority
The physician and authority: portraits by four physician-writers Suzanne Poirier The power of the physician in the physician-patient relationship has long been apparent to observers and practitioners of medicine. Robert Burton acknowledged it in The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621) when he commented that since "the form of health is contained in the physician's mind," patients should exercise "confidence . . . perseverance, obedience, and constancy" …
The weir Mitchell rest cure
(1983). The weir Mitchell rest cure: Doctor and patients. Women's Studies: Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 15-40
The weir Mitchell rest cure
(1983). The weir Mitchell rest cure: Doctor and patients. Women's Studies: Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 15-40
Moral reasoning and Alzheimer's care
The physician and authority
The physician and authority: portraits by four physician-writers Suzanne Poirier The power of the physician in the physician-patient relationship has long been apparent to observers and practitioners of medicine. Robert Burton acknowledged it in The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621) when he commented that since "the form of health is contained in the physician's mind," patients should exercise "confidence . . . perseverance, obedience, and constancy" …
The weir Mitchell rest cure
(1983). The weir Mitchell rest cure: Doctor and patients. Women's Studies: Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 15-40
Emma Goldman, Ben Reitman, and Reitman's wives
Emma Goldman — Voltarine [l]e Cleyre — Louise Michels — Women Rebels — Angela Balabanoff — Anna Bessant — Maria Breshkovski — Margaret Fuller — Frances Wright — Blatavsky — Florence Nightingale — Madame Curie — Mary Baker Eddy1
A Physician's Metamorphosis
clearly suggests that a comprehensive account cannot fail to assess selfexperimentation. Difficulties in Veatch's analysis suggest that universal priorities cannot be profitably set at the level of principles. Following the National Commission, Levine endorses the most promising theoretical approach of seeking a sensitive balance among the various moral considerations implicated in the conduct of clinical research
Ethics and the Daily Language of Medical Discourse
Ethics and Daily Language of Medical Discourse Medicine is and always has been a profession that relies heavily on narrative. [1] Considerable writing has been done about psychiatric study as literature, but medical report can also be approached from a literary perspective and studied with many of same methodologies that one would apply to a literary genre. [2] The work of French theoretician Jacques Derrida is especially applicable to medical di…
Language, Thought, and Reality
The voices of the medical record
Toward a Reciprocity of Systems
S^Toward a Reciprocity of Systems* Suzanne Poirier I dont beUeve in other people's reading of riddles. ... [It is l]ike a person delivering judgment when only half the facts are there. ... I mean its so barren; so easy; giving advice on a system. . . . What a discovery that would be—a system that did not shut out.1 Virginia Woolf wrote these words in 1932, reacting against what she considered to be the "preaching" of D. H. Lawrence in his novels.…
Stories of family caregiving
Charting the Chart—An Exercise in Interpretation(s)
Charting the Chart—An Exercise in Interpretation(s) Suzanne Poirier, Lorie Rosenblum, Lioness Ayres, Daniel J. Brauner, Barbara F. Sharf, and Ann Folwell Stanford The multiauthored article is standard in the medical sciences, where the politics of the laboratory and the academy often loom larger than the singularity of the argument or grace of its execution. The following paper, however, depends upon the singularity of each of its authors and ha…
Moral reasoning and Alzheimer's care
Editors' column
Editors’ Column Suzanne Poirier (bio) and Ann Folwell Stanford (bio) Women, health, literature, and medicine form a constellation of concepts whose various combinations have sparked considerable scholarship, debate, and action over the past quarter of a century. Women have challenged all dimensions of personal and public life that these words evoke. In medicine and literature, women’s presence and contributions have broadened the scope of both fi…
Chicago's War on Syphilis, 1937-1940
Journal Article Chicago's War on Syphilis, 1937–1940: The Times, the Trib, and the Clap Doctor By Suzanne Poirier. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995. x, 271 pp. $42.50, ISBN 0-252-02147-9.) Get access Elizabeth Fee Elizabeth Fee National Library of Mediane, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 3, December 1…
Special Invitation to Readers
Literature and Medicine - Volume 18, Number 2, Fall 1999
Editors' Preface
Editors' Preface:Difference and Identity in Medicine Jonathan M. Metzl (bio) and Suzanne Poirier (bio) Calls from within the field of medicine have asked nurses, doctors, and other health-care workers to become more aware of matters of difference. "[B]ias in health care must be corrected not by medical ombudsmen, or by legislation . . . but by a focus on the individual—individual patients and individual doctors," Abraham Verghese writes in the ar…
Medical Education and the Embodied Physician
Between 1965 and 2005, over forty books about medical education were published. This essay uses the stories contained in these accounts to study individuals' perspectives on the emotional experience of becoming a physician. In particular, it examines the ways in which experiences has registered themselves on—and in—the very bodies of these men and women. It examines the authors' uses of metaphor, sensory imagery, and physical descriptions in ways…
Jo Banks and Virginia Woolf—Three Moments
S. Weir Mitchell, 1829–1914
Reviewed by: S. Weir Mitchell, 1829–1914: Philadelphia’s Literary Physician by Nancy Cervetti Suzanne Poirier (bio) Nancy Cervetti. S. Weir Mitchell, 1829–1914: Philadelphia’s Literary Physician. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2012. xii + 295 pp. Clothbound, $79.95. Physician, scientist, poet and novelist, philanthropist, outdoorsman. There are probably many men and women who could lay claim to such a diverse profile, but f…
Psychology (14 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Empathy and Medical Education (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · History (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Art history (3 works)