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The Maximization Test The Maximization Test
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Screening Pain Screening Pain
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Captive Agency Captive Agency
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“Acres of Skin” “Acres of Skin”
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2 Skin Problems: Seeing Pain
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Published:July 2022
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Abstract
Chapter 2 focuses on Albert Kligman’s experiments on skin allergies and skin irritation, showing how black skin formed a screen through which the troubled visualization of pain became inextricable from the construction of racial difference. Kligman sought to develop a new patch-test assay that could better evaluate the harmful potential of common household products, but in these studies, black skin figured as a problematic screen for visualizing injury, thought too hardy to materialize the pain for which scientist sought visual metrics. Now race, an object of experimentation rather than simply its instrument, became intertwined in the see-ability of harm in explicit ways, protracting racial ideologies about pain. This complicates posthumanist accounts of non-human agency and the vitality of things, running aground on the prison’s ambivalent uses of captive agency and its denial of captive pain.
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