Penetrating gaze

The Penetrating Gaze and the Decline of the Autopsy.

Understanding the decline in the autopsy rate can be furthered through analysis of Foucault's idea of the medical gaze and the ancient Greek idea of theoria. The medical gaze has shifted over time from the surface of the body to the inner organs to the cellular and subcellular levels. Physicians and loved ones of the deceased person are not likely to "gaze" at the same levels. Patients' loved o...

The Historian's Gaze and the Philosopher's Gaze

Abstract The two autobiographies, of V. Y. Mudimbe and Jan Vansina, published in 1994, have many resemblances (both men have worked mainly in Zaire and have spent much of their careers in the United States) and contrasts (one being a philosopher and the other an historian). Vansina has been concerned especially with African history over a long period as it can be constructed from research into ...

Canons and Controversies: The Critical Gaze on Jhumpa Lahiri’s Fiction

The South Asian American diasporic writer, Jhumpa Lahiri has been widely acclaimed by the first-world intellectuals for her truthful representations of diasporic experience. In recent years, however, some scholars have drawn upon Gayatri Spivak’s notion of “Native Informant” to interrogate the controversial canonization of Lahiri in the West, and point instead to her disavowed participation in ...

A Penetrating Pellet Jeopardizing Internal Carotid Artery

Penetrating insights?

In this special Frontiers in Microbiology issue focusing on “Global host proteomic responses to virus infection,” Coombs and colleagues (Jiang et al., 2012) make a valiant effort to look deeper into (changes in) the proteome of HeLa cells upon reovirus infection. Using some of the latest proteomic techniques, they present a high quality analysis of quantified alterations in the protein content ...