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diff --git a/markley/13_response b/markley/13_response new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f4c02c5 --- /dev/null +++ b/markley/13_response @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +# Main Argument +Washington's writing about "black iatrophobia." This is a cultural +history, so she wants to elaborate why African-Americans have developed +this fear from the history of American medicine. Her argument is about +class and race divisions between physician practitioners and "subjects" +(patients or experiment victims). The book probably argues that white +doctors' destructive experiments and discriminatory treatment to blacks +has developed cultural adversity to modern medicine. + +# Anarcha Speaks barbarism +The doctor pursues progress, for personal gain/egotistical reasons, but +he ignores Anarcha's suffering, compartmentalizing it as "sacrifice." + +Anarcha is focused inward on her suffering. Unlike the doctor who wants +to defeat God, Anarcha prays to Him. The only thing she wants is out, +and the only way out is death because she has no freedom. + +The doctor's "document of civilization" is the speculum, the fistula +operation, and evidence, but it's backed by this horrific underclass, +the dark history Anarcha lives through, and much medical progress was +discovered this way---admirable ends with abhorrent means. |