‘It was hard but you did it’: the co-production of ‘work’ in a clinical setting among spinal cord injured adults and their physical therapists
‘It was hard but you did it’: the co-production of ‘work’ in a clinical setting among spinal cord injured adults and their physical therapists
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“这很难,但你做到了”:脊髓损伤成年人及其物理治疗师在临床环境中共同制作“工作”
DOI:
10.1080/09638280701336306
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发表时间:
2008
影响因子:
2.2
通讯作者:
C. Papadimitriou
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作者:
C. Papadimitriou
Purpose. This paper focuses on what takes place during the rehabilitation of spinal cord injured (SCI) adults. It analyses the cardinal rehabilitation task of transforming the compromised, limited and injured corporeal style of newly injured adults (best described phenomenologically as an ‘I cannot do’ or ‘ I no longer can’) into a new style of embodiment, one in which ‘I am newly abled’. This transformation is not a passive, surrendering experience. Rather, as informants repeatedly noted, ‘rehabilitation is hard work’. This paper examines that ‘work’. Method. This paper draws from observational and interview data collected over an 18-month period in a metropolitan rehabilitation centre in the Midwestern United States. It presents an exemplar case of a clinical setting, that between a physical therapist and her SCI client. Results. The interactional and meaning-making nature of clinical encounters are explicated, revealing the collaborative and situational constitution of rehabilitation work. Conclusions. Experience-near, phenomenologically informed, research is shown to be a valuable way of understanding rehabilitation practices and how they might affect inpatients and staff.