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Pedagogies of Woundedness - Illness, Memoir, and the Ends of the Model Minority (Paperback)
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Pedagogies of Woundedness - Illness, Memoir, and the Ends of the Model Minority (Paperback)
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The pressures Asian Americans feel to be socially and economically
exceptional include an unspoken mandate to always be healthy.
Nowhere is this more evident than in the expectation for Asian
Americans to enter the field of medicine, principally as providers
of care rather than those who require care. Pedagogies of
Woundedness explores what happens when those considered model
minorities critically engage with illness and medicine whether as
patients or physicians. James Kyung-Jin Lee considers how popular
culture often positions Asian Americans as medical authorities and
what that racial characterization means. Addressing the recent
trend of writing about sickness, disability, and death, Lee shows
how this investment in Asian American health via the model minority
is itself a response to older racial forms that characterize Asian
American bodies as diseased. Moreover, he pays attention to what
happens when academics get sick and how illness becomes both
methodology and an archive for scholars. Pedagogies of Woundedness
also explores the limits of biomedical "care," the rise of
physician chaplaincy, and the impact of COVID. Throughout his book
and these case studies, Lee shows the social, ethical, and
political consequences of these common (mis)conceptions that often
define Asian Americans in regard to health and illness.
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