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The Medical Carnivalesque: Folklore among Physicians

English

By (author): Lisa Gabbert

The practice of medicine is immersed in issues of life, death, and suffering in relation to the mortal body. Because of this, the medical profession is a fertile arena for folklore that serves to address these topics among physicians.

In The Medical Carnivalesque, Lisa Gabbert argues that this extraordinarily difficult work context has led to the development of an occupational corpus of folklore, backstage talk, and humor that she calls the medical carnivalesque. Gabbert argues that suffering is not only something experienced by patients, but that the organization, practice, and ethos of medicine can induce suffering in physicians themselves. Featuring topics such as the institutionalized nature of physician suffering, death-related humor and talk, stories about patient bodies, and parodies of medical specialties, The Medical Carnivalesque shows us how the culture of contemporary medicine uses travesty, humor, and inversion to address the sometimes painful and often transgressive aspects of doctoring.

The Medical Carnivalesque connects patient and physician suffering to laughter; acknowledges suffering as an essential component of life; and constitutes a way in which some physicians address the core philosophical and existential issues with which they regularly engage as they go about their daily work.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 508g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 06 Aug 2024
  • Publisher: Indiana University Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780253070241

About Lisa Gabbert

Lisa Gabbert is Professor of Folklore Studies in the Department of English at Utah State University. She is author of Winter Carnival in a Western Town: Identity Change and the Good of the Community and (with Keiko Wells) of An Introduction to Vernacular Culture in America: Society Region and Tradition.

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