Flash Presentation
Kelly Moes
Borderline Bodies, Health and Medical Humanities Symposium, Australian National University, 2024 Jun
Borderline Bodies, Health and Medical Humanities Symposium, Australian National University, 2024 Jun
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APA
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Moes, K. (2024). Expressing the IH Lived Experience through Images. Australian National University: Borderline Bodies, Health and Medical Humanities Symposium.
Chicago/Turabian
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Moes, Kelly. “Expressing the IH Lived Experience through Images.” Australian National University: Borderline Bodies, Health and Medical Humanities Symposium, 2024.
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Moes, Kelly. Expressing the IH Lived Experience through Images. Borderline Bodies, Health and Medical Humanities Symposium, 2024.
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@conference{kelly2024a,
title = {Expressing the IH Lived Experience through Images},
year = {2024},
month = jun,
address = {Australian National University},
institution = {Borderline Bodies, Health and Medical Humanities Symposium},
author = {Moes, Kelly},
month_numeric = {6}
}
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Image 1: VP Shunt [radiograph]
Image 1:
Radiographs medicalise the chronic illness – situating it as something that can be fixed. For an otherwise un-apparent disability, this image makes visible something otherwise intangible. It legitimises the embodied experience, and is shared by people with lived experience in a process of 'uncovering'.
Radiographs medicalise the chronic illness – situating it as something that can be fixed. For an otherwise un-apparent disability, this image makes visible something otherwise intangible. It legitimises the embodied experience, and is shared by people with lived experience in a process of 'uncovering'.
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Image 2: "Good Day, Bad Day" [photograph].
Image 2:
This participant-shared imagery represents the good day/bad day duality of a dynamic, fluctuating disability. The presence of a mask in the first image might also express the way we 'hide' our bad days, with one participant noting, “people generally only see me on a good day”. This reflects the performativity of chronic illness, including the ability to ‘pass’ for normal or well.
This participant-shared imagery represents the good day/bad day duality of a dynamic, fluctuating disability. The presence of a mask in the first image might also express the way we 'hide' our bad days, with one participant noting, “people generally only see me on a good day”. This reflects the performativity of chronic illness, including the ability to ‘pass’ for normal or well.