Document Type

Article

Journal/Book Title/Conference

Journal of American Folklore

Volume

133

Issue

527

Publisher

University of Illinois Press

Publication Date

2020

First Page

3

Last Page

26

Abstract

This article argues that a primary context for medical humor is a culture of suffering that permeates the medical profession and suggests that this laughter–suffering connection is part of a broader phenomenon called the medical carnivalesque that is found in medical culture.

Comments

Published as Gabbert, Lisa. “Suffering in Medical Contexts: Laughter, Humor, and the Medical Carnivalesque.” The Journal of American Folklore, vol. 133, no. 527, 2020, pp. 3–26. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/jamerfolk.133.527.0003. © 2020 by the American Folklore Society

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