Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Discipline
-
- Aesthetics (1)
- Alternative and Complementary Medicine (1)
- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment (1)
- Art Practice (1)
- Art and Design (1)
-
- Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Structural Biology (1)
- Cell Biology (1)
- Cell and Developmental Biology (1)
- Chicana/o Studies (1)
- Disability Studies (1)
- Environmental Health (1)
- Ethnic Studies (1)
- Fashion Design (1)
- Fiber, Textile, and Weaving Arts (1)
- Industrial and Product Design (1)
- Laboratory and Basic Science Research (1)
- Latina/o Studies (1)
- Life Sciences (1)
- Mental and Social Health (1)
- Molecular Biology (1)
- Pain Management (1)
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Environmental Health (1)
- Philosophy (1)
- Psychiatric and Mental Health (1)
- Psychology (1)
- Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies (1)
- Social Psychology (1)
Articles 1 - 2 of 2
Full-Text Articles in Medical Humanities
The Meaning Of A Choice, Julie-Louise Zeitoun
The Meaning Of A Choice, Julie-Louise Zeitoun
Masters Theses
If you are disabled or disadvantaged, you will be dismissed and stifled. Few people will actively care for your struggles. As a person with autism, I was deeply fearful of the persecution I had faced throughout my life; it was a fear that followed me with terrifying determination. I desperately wanted to blend into society. So I designed myself to be devoid of any weakness, and productivity was the way I chose to conceal any difficulties I faced. It was a way to measure my success — a way to measure my normalcy.
Standard medical textiles are generic, cumbersome devices. …
Migratory Material: Epigenetics & Weaving At The Us-Mexico Border, Valerie Navarrete
Migratory Material: Epigenetics & Weaving At The Us-Mexico Border, Valerie Navarrete
Masters Theses
Discourse often sutures the body shut, disallowing representations of identity to outgrow sociopolitical interests. This issue may originate from borders, but also from the unnamable pathology that generational colonial trauma transmits to the mind, body, and environment. Without a direct form of translatability, this thesis proposes a new materialism that deviates from any object-oriented ontology. Untethered and intra-active, epigenetics and weaving represent objects that transform typical ways of knowing and seeing. Their sensitivity to the environment, in addition to their mobility across generations of time, broaden the spatiotemporal loci of the body and its embodiment. Proposing new materials that expand …