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Suffering in Medical Contexts: Laughter, Humor, and the Medical Carnivalesque
- Journal of American Folklore
- American Folklore Society
- Volume 133, Number 527, Winter 2020
- pp. 3-26
- Article
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Abstract:
This article argues that a primary context for medical humor is a culture of suffering that permeates the medical profession and suggests that this laughter–suffering connection is part of a broader phenomenon called the medical carnivalesque that is found in medical culture.