In Private Bodies, Public Texts, Karla FC Holloway examines instances where medical issues and information that would usually be seen as intimate, private matters are forced into the public sphere. As she demonstrates, the resulting social dramas often play out on the bodies of women and African Americans. Holloway discusses the spectacle of the Terri Schiavo right-to-die case and the injustice of medical researchers use of Henrietta Lacks s cell line without her or her family s knowledge or permission. She offers a provocative reading of the Tuskegee syphilis study and a haunting...
In Private Bodies, Public Texts, Karla FC Holloway examines instances where medical issues and information that would usually be seen as intima...