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Sarah Ruhl's The Clean House (2004) offers a profound critique of the neoliberal outsourcing of reproductive labor and the medicalization of death. This paper examines how, in the contemporary family structures, care labor and deathbed care (hospice) that had been outsourced to wage labor and medicalization are once again performed within the household. In the play, while care for everyday life and for dying is re-situated in the domestic setting, this shift is effected by migrant workers and physicians who had previously acted as proxies for the performance of care and medicalization, thereby posing fundamental questions about the outsourcing of care and death. This study reveals not only the ethical obligation of human beings, mortal yet living ordinary lives, to care for one another, but also the political‑economic structures of the post‑millennial landscape. The domestic space transforms from a site of outsourced labor into a sanctuary of hospitality and genuine ethics of care. Ultimately, by embracing the inevitable “filth” of life and death, the play stages a transcendence that reclaims human dignity beyond the banality of everyday life and the death that capitalism rejects.

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Ⅰ. Introduction
Ⅱ. The Hierarchy Revealed through Care
Ⅲ. Objectifying Disease, Excluding Death: The Lens of Clinical Medicine
Ⅳ. Conclusion
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• Hyun-Kyung Lee [ Lecturer, Chonnam National University ]

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• 간행물명

  영어영문학21 [English21]

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  계간

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  1738-4052

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  1967~2026

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  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 840 DDC 820