Foucault was a French philosopher known for his interrogation of knowledge and structures of power. In Birth of the Clinic (1973) he described how the medical gaze arose from 18th-century dissection, which exposed ‘what for centuries had remained below the threshold of the visible and expressible’ developing further through 19th-century pathological anatomy, which reduced…
Author: Gita Ralleigh
Gita Ralleigh is a writer, poet and doctor born to Indian immigrant parents in London. Her work has been published by Wasafiri, Bellevue Literary Review, Magma Poetry and The Rialto among others. Her chapbooks are A Terrible Thing, (Bad Betty Press, 2020) and Siren, (Broken Sleep Books 2022). She holds an MA in Creative Writing, an MSc in Medical Humanities and is a lecturer in Creative Writing for undergraduates at Imperial College, London. You can find her as @storyvilled on twitter.
On the Lyric Essay as Illness Narrative
Every sound we make is a bit of autobiography. It has a totally private interior yet its trajectory is public. A piece of inside projected to the outside. Anne Carson, The Gender of Sound (Glass, Irony and God) As a doctor who also teaches creative writing, I am aware that features of narrative such as…