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Performing Specimens: Contemporary Performance and Biomedical Display by Gianna Bouchard (review)

For Gianna Bouchard, a specimen is both a physical, conceptual, and experiential entity. Medicine produces specimens when it transforms human bodies into objects of knowledge that it performs, stages, frames, displays, narrates, or mediates. The procedures by which a subject becomes an object of display or investigation are, Bouchard suggests, a kind of violence: dissection, excision, exposure, pathologization, commodification, or quantification. As such, the specimen engenders “spectatorial anxiety and ethical queasiness” (28). And yet, she contends, specimenhood is now a pervasive, normalized component of contemporary subjectivity: with our Fitbits, reality TV wellness regimens, and 23andMe swabs, we are all now engaged in medical self-objectification, self-optimization, or self-display.