Hospitals Make Me Sick
2024
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Positioning concepts in medical sociology alongside reflections of lived experiences, Hospitals Make Me Sick explores adverse responses to the medical encounter and how the often obscured ideologies and dominant practices of medical professionals and institutions precipitate this response.
Led by a series of prompts, Paul offers a spoken autobiographical account of past medical encounters navigating through issues including the medical gaze, the veneration of the doctor and the clinic's propensity to encourage Western, neoliberal values. A series of deadpan photographs within the hospital setting makes palpable the tension between the banality of the clinical environment where the medical encounter unfolds and the highly charged individual experience.
