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DESCRIPTION:Photography\, Pathologies\, and Privacy: Visual Anonymity in Me
 dical Publications\n\n \n\nAlmost immediately after its invention\, photog
 raphy was being used in medical spheres to create patient images. But the 
 practice of granting anonymity in these photographs – usually by coverin
 g the patients’ eyes – took time to catch on in medical publications a
 nd was executed inconsistently across time and unequally across patient gr
 oups. This talk examines the histories\, aesthetics\, and ethics of anonym
 ization in medical photographs published in Britain and the United States 
 in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Key trends in and tactics of vi
 sual anonymization are examined in this research\, including the use of 
 “feminine” objects to anonymize women\, and the haunting use of the ho
 od to cover patient faces.\n\nPhotography was instrumental in the legal an
 d conceptual beginnings of privacy\, and this talk explicates some of the 
 historical and ethical intersections of medical photography and privacy in
  modern Anglo-American society. The questions of if\, how\, and when to gr
 ant patients of the past their privacy are still being debated amongst his
 torians of medical photography. The discussion of the parameters and effic
 acy of visual anonymity in historical publications allows for the posing o
 f ethical questions relevant to those looking at\, working with\, and writ
 ing about medical photographs today.\n\n# # #\n\nAbout the Speaker:\n\nChr
 istine Slobogin is an Assistant Professor of Health Humanities and Bioethi
 cs at the University of Rochester Medical Center\, with a Joint Appointmen
 t in the Department of Art and Art History. Her research lies at the inter
 section of art history\, the history of medicine\, and the health humaniti
 es\, with her first monograph – titled Putting Plastic Surgery on Paper 
 – focusing on the art and visual cultures of twentieth-century British r
 econstructive plastic surgery. She also has an edited volume forthcoming f
 rom Manchester University Press titled Sick Jokes: Visual Histories of Hum
 our\, Health\, and the Body. She is the founder\, producer\, and co-host o
 f several podcasts\, including: “Drawing Blood\,” a podcast about art 
 and visual culture\, histories of science and medicine\, and the macabre\;
  and “In the Same Vein\,” a pedagogical podcast that interviews schola
 rs in health humanities and bioethics alongside University of Rochester st
 udents.\n\n \n\nThis program is part of the Privacy series\, an ongoing co
 llaboration between the UR Humanities Center and the URMC Paul M. Schyve M
 D Center for Bioethics.
GEO:43.128411;-77.628692
LOCATION:Rush Rhees Library\, Humanities Center\, Conf. Rm. D\, RRL 202
SUMMARY:Photography\, Pathologies\, and Privacy: Visual Anonymity in Medica
 l Publications: Christine Slobogin
URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/photography-pathologies-an
 d-privacy-visual-anonymity-in-medical-publications-by-christine-slobogin
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