“A Leasing of Bodies”: Race, Medicine, and Radical Care in Jamie Lloyd’s Revival of Lucy Prebble’s <i>The Effect</i>
Bibliographic record
Abstract
British director Jamie Lloyd’s 2023 revival of Lucy Prebble’s 2012 play The Effect re-frames the play’s contemplation of love and medicine in racialized terms. The Effect follows two volunteers who fall in love during a drug trial and two doctors who monitor them. Featuring an all-Black cast, Lloyd’s revival evokes the troubling history of medical experimentation on Black bodies while also modelling ethical and racially conscious care. As the Black cast was encouraged to bring personal aspects of their own lives into the production, Prebble’s original text is moulded to the myriad lived experiences of Black persons in the diaspora in the 2023 revival. By using Christina Sharpe’s theory of the wake and Harriet Washington’s history of medical apartheid, applied on a broader, global diasporic scale, this article traces key moments in the revival that were tailored to the Black actors’ positionality. These approaches open The Effect to further discussions of race, medicine, and the practice of a radical, ethical model of care that is deeply human.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.023 | 0.049 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.010 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.005 | 0.015 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".