Mutant fish only’
Epistemic hybridity and the boundary work of medical illustrators
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11147085 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Drew Danielle Belsky (York University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2022-03-11 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sites a journal of social anthropology and cultural studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0112-5990 • E-ISSN: 1179-0237 |
| Publisher | University of Otago Library (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.11157/sites-id492 |
| OpenAlex | W4221088449 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 30 |
Drawing on two years of ethnographic research in North American graduate programs and professional gatherings for medical illustrators, my research builds on feminist studies of science and technology to understand how expertise and agency are negotiated in this female-dominated biomedical specialty. The disciplinary storytelling practices of medical illustrators navigate an insecure relationship to biomedical authority by reinscribing normative social hierarchies of gender, race, class, size and disability. When entering the profession, medical illustrators situate themselves as misfits and hybrids, straddling rhetorically opposed domains of ‘art’ and ‘science.’ In the course of their graduate education, this tension is resolved by recasting this epistemic border-crossing as ‘storytelling’ and communication of scientific knowledge to those without it. This boundary work contains the potential disruption of epistemic hybridity by constructing their work as fundamentally subservient to biomedicine, limiting the potential to challenge conventions of representation and inclusion in the profession
Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy · Art · Boundary-work · Discipline · Hybridity · Identity (music · Inclusion (mineral · Narrative · Normative · Political science · Politics · Representation (politics · Social science · Sociology · Storytelling · Anthropology · Biomedical and Engineering Education · Empathy and Medical Education · Gender Studies · Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration · Law
Nature's body
Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty
Coming to Understand
Borderlands/La Frontera
Feminism without Borders
The Fielding H. Garrison Lecture
Two Australian Fetuses
Demonstrative Evidence
Coming to Understand
Gender Bias in Human Anatomy Textbook Illustrations
Doing Distinctions
Drawing a line
Picturing the moon
Art, Science, and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe
We Have Never Been Modern
His and hers
Black Bodies, White Science
The Anatomy of Difference
Demarcating Epidemiology
Boundary-Work and the Demarcation of Science from Non-Science
The Traffic in Cyberanatomies
Neutralizing differences
Putting knowledge in its place
Clitoral Conventions and Transgressions
The Visible Woman
Making Visible
Situated Knowledges
Epistemic Cultures
Theorizing from the Borders
| Highly cited | No |
|---|