{"id":159,"date":"2019-08-27T23:49:44","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T23:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2019\/?page_id=159"},"modified":"2019-08-27T23:57:07","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T23:57:07","slug":"matthew-j-sobnosky","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2019\/matthew-j-sobnosky\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew J. Sobnosky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-160 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2019\/files\/2019\/08\/sobnosky_ullsizeoutput_41f-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2019\/files\/2019\/08\/sobnosky_ullsizeoutput_41f-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2019\/files\/2019\/08\/sobnosky_ullsizeoutput_41f-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2019\/files\/2019\/08\/sobnosky_ullsizeoutput_41f-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2019\/files\/2019\/08\/sobnosky_ullsizeoutput_41f-1200x900.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2019\/files\/2019\/08\/sobnosky_ullsizeoutput_41f.jpeg 1812w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Title:<\/strong> Instructor<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>University:<\/strong> Florida Atlantic University<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Email:<\/strong> msobnosky@fau.edu<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Description of your work<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I became interested in the rhetoric surrounding health and medical issues when I started looking at HIV activist groups.\u00a0 In particular I was interested in how HIV activists were able to establish themselves as legitimate participants in decisionmaking on HIV research and public policy.\u00a0 I have since pursued related issues that look at medical activism and health social movements. I am particularly interested in the women\u2019s health movement of the 1960s and 1970s, which in many way provides the substance of much contemporary medical activism.\u00a0 I am also interested in the ways that medical discourse represents the people it serves. My current research examines how women are represented in gynecology texts in gynecology textbooks and other medical writings during the \u201cgolden age\u201d of American medicine in the 20<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> century.\u00a0 This project also draws on the growing body of literature on ignorance as a communication strategy.\u00a0 Recent work in a variety of disciplines has explored the ways that ignorance can be fostered, circulated, and deployed in discourses of power and resistance.\u00a0 Analysis of medical texts reveals certain types of ignorance at work in the representations of women in medical discourse, resulting in negative views of women, misunderstandings of women\u2019s health issues, and in some cases mistreatment of women by medical practitioners.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: Instructor University: Florida Atlantic University Email: msobnosky@fau.edu Description of your work I became interested in the rhetoric surrounding health and medical issues when I started looking at HIV activist &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2019\/matthew-j-sobnosky\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Matthew J. Sobnosky&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-159","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173,"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/159\/revisions\/173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}