The Waiting Room: Ontological Homelessness, Sexual Synecdoche, and Queer Becoming

Malatino, Hilary

doi:10.1007/s10912-013-9225-9

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“…Outpatient visits often include the input of numerous specialists, sometimes involving multiple episodes of waiting thus increasing chance encounters. It is important therefore to ask how ‘waiting’ in hospital (Arneill and Devlin, 2002; Malatino, 2013; Strathmann and Hay, 2009) is performed and features in the design of AMR mitigation.…”

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Pathways, practices and architectures: Containing antimicrobial resistance in the cystic fibrosis clinic

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Antimicrobial resistance and the adaptation of microbial life to antibiotics are recognised as a major healthcare challenge. Whereas most social science engagement with antimicrobial resistance has focussed on aspects of ‘behaviour’ (prescribing, antibiotic usage, patient ‘compliance’, etc.), this article instead explores antimicrobial resistance in the context of building design and healthcare architecture, focussing on the layout, design and ritual practices of three cystic fibrosis outpatient clinics. Cystic fibrosis is a life-threatening multi-system genetic condition, often characterised by frequent respiratory infections and antibiotic treatment. Preventing antimicrobial resistance and cross-infection in cystic fibrosis increasingly depends on the spatiotemporal isolation of both people and pathogens. Our research aims to bring to the fore the role of the built environment exploring how containment and segregation are varyingly performed in interaction with material design, focussing on three core themes. These include, first, aspects of flow, movement and the spatiotemporal choreography of cystic fibrosis care. Second, the management of waiting and the materiality of the waiting room is a recurrent concern in our fieldwork. Finally, we take up the question of air, the intangibility of airborne risks and their material mitigation in the cystic fibrosis clinic.

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Pathways, practices and architectures: Containing antimicrobial resistance in the cystic fibrosis clinic

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The Isle of Hermaphrodites: Disorienting the place of intersex in the Middle Ages

Bychowski

2018

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Queering the Moment of Hypospadias “Repair”

Griffiths¹

2021

GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies

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Heteronormativity structures biomedical justifications for continuing surgical interventions on infants’ genitals that are cosmetic and medically unnecessary. It would seem, then, that queer theory is uniquely suited to challenge this continuing practice. This article takes up the question of what queer theory can do for intersex, with particular focus on queer temporality. I consider the example of “hypospadias repair,” a surgical intervention justified by invoking restrictive norms of what the penis should look like and be able to do at some point in the future. In contrast, intersex activists invoke post-medical futures, structured by norms of consent and bodily integrity. While queer approaches to temporality might challenge the notion of intervening surgically on an infant for the sake of the future adult the child will become, might this queer critique also disrupt the ability of activist individuals and organizations to invoke other narratives of the future, including ones where adults have not had irreversible surgeries as infants? I will ask whether queer theories of temporality and futurity can challenge medical practices that compromise consent and bodily integrity. Can queer theory question surgery as a queer moment and help us to conceptualize all bodily differences within a more expansive frame, without reinstating heteronormative narratives of futurity?

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The Waiting Room: Ontological Homelessness, Sexual Synecdoche, and Queer Becoming

Cited by 4 publications

References 3 publications

Pathways, practices and architectures: Containing antimicrobial resistance in the cystic fibrosis clinic

Pathways, practices and architectures: Containing antimicrobial resistance in the cystic fibrosis clinic

The Isle of Hermaphrodites: Disorienting the place of intersex in the Middle Ages

Queering the Moment of Hypospadias “Repair”

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