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  • Essay / Movie Analysis The Movie Wit - 2034

    Like life support, a device used to sustain life when no other medical measures can be used; Physicians are required to exhaust all options to prolong their patients' lives unless otherwise directed by the patient or their family. In the film "Wit", the audience witnesses Dr. Jason Posner discovering Vivian in cardiac arrest and he calls the recitation team to revive her. The doctors view Vivian solely as her cancer, what Michel Foucault calls the gaze, and explain that this dehumanizes the patient because it separates the patient's diseased body parts from their identity (Woronko, 2014). Medical technology also contributes to the gaze because it speaks for the patient and therefore further separates the patient's diseased body from their identity, such as the invention of the X-ray machine. In the film "Wit", Dr. Jason Posner reveals to the audience that he only wants to revive Vivian because she provides a benefit to his research (Nichols, 2001). The article "The New Reproductive Technology: Problem and solution" by Jen Strickler argues that reproductive technology takes over women's reproductive organs and their lives and can have physiological and psychological consequences on the couple's relationship (Strickler, 1992). Infertility has also become a commodity for doctors and has also created a new medical profession for doctors called fertility specialist. Medical technology further separates a patient's body from their identity, which dehumanizes the patient. Even though medical technologies dehumanize individuals, society is becoming increasingly dependent on medical technologies. Indeed, if medical technology is developed to diagnose and treat a disease, it