My chosen case is Genie Wiley, and her construction of reality was a dark and depressed state of being. One without language or communication that functionally changed her as a person. But reality can be both a subjective and objective word. This is because our world is an actively changing and very real subject, but the perception of it is dependent on each individual’s perspective. Most of how we perceive the world is based on the way we were raised and our family and culture, which have a large impact on the way we see the world and in Genie’s case abuse was rampant and dramatically altered her life, but that was her construction of reality. In a southern American tribe, there are people who have a skin disease that, though we see it as
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This paper will talk about Genie’s case, western medicine’s occurrence, and how social class, institutions, and social construction of reality, mirror society. Genie the Feral Child is an absolute failure of the foster and health care system that should have never taken place. Her story is that of an extremely isolated and sheltered child who was continuously physically and mentally abused by her father until her adolescence. Because of this abuse she remained non-verbal for the majority of her childhood and was taken under the wing of researchers after her rescue, their reasoning being that they could finally learn the “Developmental Consequence of Extreme Social Isolation” (Milne, 2024). Her adoption by researchers was directly attributed to her lower socioeconomic status, the approving healthcare social institutions that are modern day care centers and the social construction of reality that is the widespread belief in the research of western …show more content…
Should this wonderous icon of an American Physician have been in the shoes of Dr. Sims, she would be regarded as a hero amongst women and those in need of post-obstetric care, she more than likely would have continued the pursuit of proper medical management of those in lower socioeconomic statuses. Likewise, she would have remained steadfast in her treatment of abused and enslaved women, rather than vying over the competitive pricing given by more affluent whites. These differences in personality, race and gender all make her story much more consumable to a person in the 21st century, and it completely changes the perception of the research completed. The research, however, would have remained quite similar, or may have, due to her practicing attitude, may not have been completed in the first place. Overall, the story of Genie the feral child is devastating, a failure of modern medicine and child protection services, she should have never had to endure the abuse from her parents, and subsequent mishandling from her researchers. This situation is not only being scrutinized in hindsight, but during the experimentation was consistently questioned by the people of their
This paper will talk about Genie’s case, western medicine’s occurrence, and how social class, institutions, and social construction of reality, mirror society. Genie the Feral Child is an absolute failure of the foster and health care system that should have never taken place. Her story is that of an extremely isolated and sheltered child who was continuously physically and mentally abused by her father until her adolescence. Because of this abuse she remained non-verbal for the majority of her childhood and was taken under the wing of researchers after her rescue, their reasoning being that they could finally learn the “Developmental Consequence of Extreme Social Isolation” (Milne, 2024). Her adoption by researchers was directly attributed to her lower socioeconomic status, the approving healthcare social institutions that are modern day care centers and the social construction of reality that is the widespread belief in the research of western …show more content…
Should this wonderous icon of an American Physician have been in the shoes of Dr. Sims, she would be regarded as a hero amongst women and those in need of post-obstetric care, she more than likely would have continued the pursuit of proper medical management of those in lower socioeconomic statuses. Likewise, she would have remained steadfast in her treatment of abused and enslaved women, rather than vying over the competitive pricing given by more affluent whites. These differences in personality, race and gender all make her story much more consumable to a person in the 21st century, and it completely changes the perception of the research completed. The research, however, would have remained quite similar, or may have, due to her practicing attitude, may not have been completed in the first place. Overall, the story of Genie the feral child is devastating, a failure of modern medicine and child protection services, she should have never had to endure the abuse from her parents, and subsequent mishandling from her researchers. This situation is not only being scrutinized in hindsight, but during the experimentation was consistently questioned by the people of their