Imaging in Acromegaly

Mark, Ian T.; Villanueva-Meyer, Javier

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-16258-9_4

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“…"For some fifteen or twenty years," he wrote, "each day when I looked into the glass to brush my hair or to shave, there was a typical acromegalic literally staring me in the face." 55 Mark's colleagues evidently had much less trouble recognising his condition based on the changes in his appearance. Following his self-diagnosis, he consulted his medical friends only to discover that most of them had already diagnosed his acromegaly several years earlier.…”

Section: Sensing Beyond Observingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…"58 Mark too had paid little heed to the initial changes in his size, even attributing the growth of his hands to his regular use of dumbbells. 59 In giving the history of his own disease, Mark revealed tension between patient experience and medical authority. It is clear that Mark well understood this tension, born as it was out of the need of the diagnosing physician to make sense out of a sick person's narrative.…”

Section: Sensing Beyond Observingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Medical Masculinity and the Sensation of Suffering in Leonard Portal Mark’s Acromegaly (1912)

Palfreyman

2023

Nuncius

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In 1912 physician Leonard Mark published a book titled Acromegaly: A Personal Experience. Within, he documented his life suffering from the titular condition which manifested in symptoms ranging from headaches to the hypertrophic enlargement of the head, hands and feet. As the condition began to affect Mark’s ability to perform his medical and artistic work his writing had to contend with his changing identity, body, and the problem of how to effectively explain the experience of his suffering. At the same time as the wider medical profession was becoming fixated on acromegaly as a disease defined almost wholly by its spectacular visible symptoms, Mark’s writing invited his reader to go beyond the merely visible and engage with his narrative on a multisensory level. What emerges in Acromegaly, and what this paper explores, is how Mark used contemporary ideas of medical masculinity, particularly in deconstructing them, to invite this sensorial engagement.

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Section: Sensing Beyond Observingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Sensing Beyond Observingmentioning

confidence: 99%