“Modern Medicine Had to Start Somewhere:” Performing Health and White Privilege in The Knick

This essay examines the interrelations of health and white privilege in the U.S.-American historical and medical drama The Knick “(2014-). Employing a broad definition of health and drawing from performance studies, this article argues that the everyday life within the series depicts a racist so...

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Main Author: Claudia Trotzke
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Regensburg: Current objectives in postgraduate American studies c/o Universität Regensburg/Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 2016-05-01
Series:Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies
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Online Access:https://copas.uni-regensburg.de/index.php/copas/article/view/251