Abstract In 1971, three Duke University professors published a medical school textbook using pinup photographs of naked women as visual aids. In critiquing the rhetorical force of this unusual artifact, we synthesize theories of the male gaze with Foucault’s concept of the medical gaze and Rothfelder and Thornton’s “rhetorics of proximity” to argue that the medical gaze is predicated upon White heteromasculinity. Rhetorics of proximity typically help to manage the inherent connections between the medical gaze and the male gaze: the former requires distance while the latter invites closeness. By inviting its readers to gaze upon the pinups with sexual interestedness, the textbook mismanages rhetorical proximity and thus reveals not only the inherent connections between the male gaze and the medical gaze but also the processes of constructing medical images that often are elided by the shroud of scientific objectivity and transparent representation.

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医学课堂中的男性凝视：“色情解剖书”中的接近性、客观性和客观化

摘要 1971 年，杜克大学的三位教授出版了一本医学院教科书，使用裸体女性的照片作为视觉辅助。在批评这种不寻常的人工制品的修辞力量时，我们将男性凝视的理论与福柯的医学凝视概念以及罗斯菲尔德和桑顿的“接近修辞学”综合起来，以论证医学凝视是建立在白人异性男子气概之上的。接近的修辞通常有助于管理医学凝视和男性凝视之间的内在联系：前者需要距离，而后者需要亲密。通过邀请读者以性兴趣注视这些贴图，