The University of Michigan (Department of English), Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
J Med Humanit. 2021 Dec;42(4):777-793. doi: 10.1007/s10912-020-09671-1. Epub 2020 Nov 4.
This essay argues that Berger and Mohr's A Fortunate Man (1967) - comprising social observation and photographs of the rural practitioner, Dr. Sassall and his patients - enacts an embodied, intersubjective empathy called "pain-work." The book enacts "pain-work" through two strategies. Firstly, by conflating three ways of seeing - Berger's observation, Mohr's photography, and Sassall's medical gaze - it shows that the clinical encounter embodies objective vision through intersubjective pain. Secondly, it employs the concepts of recognition and witnessing to show how the subjectivity of the physician is distributed in his community. Thus, Berger and Mohr witness Sassall's witnessing of his patients; even as Sassall and his patients are constituted intersubjectively, so too are Berger, Mohr, and Sassall.
本文认为，伯杰和莫尔的《幸运儿》（1967 年）——由农村医生萨斯尔及其患者的社会观察和照片组成——表现出一种被称为“痛苦工作”的具身、主体间同理心。这本书通过两种策略来实现“痛苦工作”。首先，通过融合三种观察方式——伯杰的观察、莫尔的摄影和萨斯尔的医学眼光——它表明临床相遇通过主体间的痛苦体现了客观的视野。其次，它运用了承认和见证的概念来展示医生的主观性如何在他的社区中分配。因此，伯杰和莫尔见证了萨斯尔对他的病人的见证；即使萨斯尔和他的病人在主体间被构成，伯杰、莫尔和萨斯尔也是如此。
