2007/01/01 by Sarah Lochlann Jain, S. Lochlann Jain · 3 citations
Medicine · #Empathy and Medical Education
paper · doi:10.1525/rep.2007.98.1.77
openalex publication_date 2007/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
This essay examines how prognosis serves as a representational space for people living with and dying of cancer. It argues that as one of a series of means by which an elusive disease is made material, the prognosis also holds fantasies about the future, the past, and counterfactual futures and pasts.