"The Medication Trial"

Macris, A

"The Medication Trial"

Macris, A

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Publisher:: Island Magazine
Citation:: Island Magazine, 2016, pp. 100 - 109
Issue Date:: 2016-01-01

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dc.contributor.author	Macris, A https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2110-2351	en_US
dc.date.issued	2016-01-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Island Magazine, 2016, pp. 100 - 109	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	9780994490148	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/81440
dc.publisher	Island Magazine	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Island Magazine	en_US
dc.title	"The Medication Trial"	en_US
utslib.location	Tasmania, Australia	en_US
utslib.for	190402 Creative Writing (incl. Playwriting)	en_US
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences/School of Communication
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Strength - CPCE - Centre for Creative Practices and the Cultural Economy
utslib.copyright.status	closed_access
pubs.consider-herdc	true	en_US
pubs.place-of-publication	Tasmania, Australia	en_US
pubs.rights-statement	Research background This research is in the field of 1904 Performing Arts and Creative Writing. Lee Gutkind provided a basis for situating subjective experience at the heart of creative nonfiction. Joan Didion demonstrated how journalistic methods can be used to conduct case studies of medical conditions. Helen Garner showed how to combine the true crime genre with ethically complex narratives of illness. This work’s research question is: how can we maintain medical precision while developing empathy and drama in creative nonfiction approaches to medical conditions? Research contribution In traditional narratives that depict medical conditions, important empirical detail is often sacrificed to make way for material shaped around characterization, emotion and dramatization. This work challenges that paradigm by structuring the drama around medical details. For example, every increase in the dosage of the drug Risperidone being administered to a child with severe autism leads to changes in character and story progression. By doing this the work shows that it is possible to link medical detail and drama. It demonstrates how an enriched form of case study can provide more nuanced understandings of subjective experience and ethical considerations in dealing with medical conditions. Research significance This work was published by the literary journal Island, which is funded by the Literature Board of the Australia Council. Its editor, Geordie Williamson, is Fiction Publisher, Picador Australia.	en_US

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