title: Foreword--as per verse: the queer in the clinic in the poem.
abstract: This essay introduces a series of poems by six authors: Rafael Campo, Susan Holbrook, Katie Price, Trish Salah, Qwo-Li Driskill, and Brian Teare. I argue that the poems demonstrate that a queer bioethics, whether literary or medical, must dispense with commonplace assumptions about the ways in which selves, especially queer selves, are represented in language. Instead, poetry's sound-sense and avoidance of language-as-usual can serve as an analogy for modes of approach, analysis, and even recognition that do not receive official sanction; the non-linear modes of reading required by contemporary poetry can serve as methodological models for a queer bioethics.
authors: sdowling@uwb.edu
authors: Sarah
authors: S
authors: Dowling
mesh_terms: D026688:Bioethical Issues; D006716:Homosexuality; D006801:Humans; D008513:Medicine in Literature; D010824:Physicians' Offices; D011037:Poetry as Topic