Lie Back and Take It: BDSM, Biomedicine and the Hospital Bed in the work of Bob Flanagan and Sheree Rose

This article considers the position of the patient in a hospital bed and the ways in which artists with severe illnesses have utilised this. The hospital bed allows biomedicine full control and access to the body and renders the sick person as patient. Lying in bed becomes a position of passiveness,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Martin O’brien
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2016-01-01
Series:Body, Space & Technology Journal
Online Access:https://www.bstjournal.com/articles/18