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The emotional and social components of teaching medical students to be good doctorsThe pelvic exam is considered a fundamental procedure for medical students to learn; it is also often the one of the first times where medical students are required to touch a real human being in a professional manner. In Feeling Medicine, Kelly Underman gives us a look inside these gynecological teaching programs, showing how they embody the tension between scientific thought and human emotion in medical education. Drawing on interviews with medical students, faculty, and the people who use their own bodies to teach this exam, Underman offers the first in-depth examination of this essential, but seldom discussed, aspect of medical education. Through studying, teaching, and learning about the pelvic exam, she contrasts the technical and emotional dimensions of learning to be a physician. Ultimately, Feeling Medicine explores what it means to be a good doctor in the twenty-first century, particularly in an era of corporatized healthcare.

Gynecology --- Physicians --- Pelvis --- Human anatomy --- Gynecologist and patient --- Study and teaching --- Training of --- Examination --- Social aspects --- Models --- United States. --- Affect. --- Affective economies. --- Biopolitics. --- Bodies. --- Cadaver. --- Care. --- Clinic. --- Communication skills. --- Consent. --- Embodiment. --- Emotion. --- Emotional socialization. --- Empathy. --- Expertise. --- Feeling. --- Feminism. --- Gender. --- Governmentality. --- Gynecological teaching associate. --- Gynecology. --- Intimate labor. --- Medical education research. --- Medical student. --- Medical students. --- Medicine. --- Patient centered medicine. --- Patient empowerment. --- Patient health movement. --- Pelvic exam under anesthesia. --- Pelvic exam. --- Perception. --- Professional dominance. --- Professionalism. --- Reproductive health. --- Science. --- Sensation. --- Sexuality. --- Simulated patient. --- Simulation. --- Standardization. --- Subjectivities. --- Work.