I am sick and a woman. I write my own name. I am han\u00added at each appoint\u00adment a prin\u00adtout from the gene\u00adral data\u00adbase that I am told to amend or approve. The data\u00adbases would be emp\u00adty without us.<\/p>\n
Receptionists dis\u00adtri\u00adbute forms, print the bra\u00adce\u00adlets to be read later by scan\u00adners held in the hands of other women. The nur\u00adsing assis\u00adtants stand in a door\u00adway from which they never quite emerge. They hold these doors open with their bodies and call out patients\u2019 names. These women are the para\u00adpro\u00adfes\u00adsio\u00adnals in the thre\u00adsholds, wei\u00adghing the bodies of patients on digi\u00adtal scales, taking mea\u00adsu\u00adre\u00adments of vital signs in the sta\u00adging area of a clinic\u2019s open cran\u00adnies. Then they lead the patient (me) to an exa\u00admi\u00adning room and log into the sys\u00adtem. They enter the num\u00adbers my body gene\u00adrates when offe\u00adred to machines : how hot or cold I am, the rate at which my heart is bea\u00adting. Then they ask the ques\u00adtion : Rate your pain on a scale of one to ten ? I try to ans\u00adwer, but the cor\u00adrect ans\u00adwer is always anu\u00adme\u00adri\u00adcal. Sensation is the ene\u00admy of quan\u00adti\u00adfi\u00adca\u00adtion. There is no machine, yet, to which a ner\u00advous sys\u00adtem can sub\u00admit sen\u00adsa\u00adtion to be trans\u00adfor\u00admed into a suf\u00adfi\u00adcient\u00adly des\u00adcrip\u00adtive measurement.<\/p>\n
Contemporary medi\u00adcine hyper-responds to the body\u2019s unru\u00adly event of ill\u00adness by trans\u00admu\u00adting it into data. Patients become infor\u00adma\u00adtion not mere\u00adly via the quan\u00adti\u00adties of wha\u00adte\u00adver emerges from or passes through their dis\u00adcrete bodies, the bodies and sen\u00adsa\u00adtions of entire popu\u00adla\u00adtions become the math of like\u00adli\u00adhood (of fal\u00adling ill or staying well, of living or dying, of hea\u00adling or suf\u00adfe\u00adring) upon which treat\u00adment is based. The bodies of all people are sub\u00adject to these cal\u00adcu\u00adla\u00adtions, but it is women, most often, who do the pre\u00adli\u00admi\u00adna\u00adry work of relo\u00adca\u00adting the nebu\u00adlous\u00adness and uncoun\u00adta\u00adbli\u00adty of ill\u00adness into medicine\u2019s tech\u00adno\u00adlo\u00adgi\u00adzed math.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I am sick and a woman. I write my own name. I am han\u00added at each appoint\u00adment a prin\u00adtout from the gene\u00adral data\u00adbase that I am told to amend or approve. The data\u00adbases would be emp\u00adty without us. Receptionists dis\u00adtri\u00adbute forms, print the bra\u00adce\u00adlets to be read later by scan\u00adners held in the hands of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3180,3175,3176,927,3179,2417,914,3177,3028,2090,3178,47],"class_list":["post-22633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-non-classe","tag-chiffres","tag-data","tag-donnees","tag-douleur","tag-evaluation","tag-femme","tag-medecine","tag-qualification","tag-qualite","tag-quantification","tag-quantite","tag-travail","post_format-post-format-quote"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testanonpertinente.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testanonpertinente.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testanonpertinente.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testanonpertinente.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testanonpertinente.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testanonpertinente.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22634,"href":"https:\/\/testanonpertinente.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22633\/revisions\/22634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testanonpertinente.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testanonpertinente.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testanonpertinente.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}