Humanities Homework Help

Discussion: Medicine and Photographic “Evidence”

Requirements:

Cite all sources in MLA

Use examples from material provided in links to support your claims

Provide critical and thoughtful answers for responses

Answers must be in full sentences.

A minimum of one paragraph per answer is required.

Full answer should be a short cohesive essay

View all links given relating to material

Prompt: Answer the following questions after viewing these links.

https://youtu.be/JefYnYIXY_8

https://www.princeton.edu/~graphicarts/2012/07/visual_psychology_and_jean-mar.html

https://remedianetwork.net/2017/01/16/the-backstage-of-hysteria-medicine-in-the-photographic-studio/

1. Discuss how photography was specifically used to “document” cases of hysteria among female psychiatric patients. Why was photography seen as a useful tool within this application?

2. Think critically about photography’s association with “truth” and “evidence” in these medical applications and discuss how photographic representations of women “hysterics” shaped cultural ideologies and supported constructed ideas about femininity and neurodiversity in biased ways

• • Think about the kinds of choices that went into taking/making these photographs — including aspects of form, style, and process — that ultimately produce images that shapes public perception and opinion instead of “truthfully” supplying “evidence.”

  you can use outside sources, but not to many please. Also your examples should come mostly from the links provided.