Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: A Cultural Analysis of Integrated Rehabilitation Medicine in Colombia

哥伦比亚是世界上地雷伤害率最高的国家之一。与此同时，哥伦比亚正在成为战争伤员“综合”康复医学的世界领先者。在艾米丽·马丁博士的指导下，研究生艾米丽·科恩将研究以下问题：“综合”康复对病人、非病人和医疗专业人员日常生活的社会和文化影响。研究将与哥伦比亚波哥大、麦德林和卡利的康复单位有关的个人进行。 科恩将使用混合方法的社会科学研究策略。她将录制日常对话和活动，要求个人画出他们对残疾和康复身体的想法，录制截肢者和康复医学占据中心舞台的公开表演，并参加难民家中的非正式社交聚会，并记录非正式谈话，如笑话，歌曲和讲故事。 这些数据将揭示人们如何普遍表达对人体、自我、残疾、亲属关系和性别的理解。 最后，她将追踪相关的大众媒体并进行档案研究，作为康复医学的第一个民族志研究之一，这项研究将为关于长期战争社会创伤的社会和文化后果的新社会科学理论做出贡献。它还可能导致更好的康复医学战略，以及对从业人员的工作对他们自己，他们的病人以及更大的国家和国际社会意味着什么的替代理解。这项研究也将有助于社会科学家的教育。

Colombia has one of the highest rates of landmine injuries in the world. At the same time, Colombia is becoming a world leader in "integrated" rehabilitation medicine for the war wounded. Under the supervision of Dr. Emily Martin, graduate student, Emily Cohen, will investigate the following question: what is its social and cultural impact of "integrated" rehabilitation on the everyday lives of patients, non-patients, and medical professionals.Research will be conducted with individuals associated with rehabilitation units that treat soldiers and civilians injured by landmines in Bogota, Medellin, and Cali, Colombia. Ms. Cohen will use a mixed-methods social science research strategy. She will video tape everyday conversations and activities, ask individuals to draw their idea of the disabled and rehabilitated body, video tape public performances where amputees and rehabilitation medicine take center stage, and participate in casual social gatherings at refugee homes and record informal talk such as jokes, songs, and storytelling. These data will reveal how people popularly express understandings of the human body, the self, disability, kinship, and gender. Finally, she will track relevant popular media and do archival research.As one of the first ethnographic studies of rehabilitative medicine, the research will contribute to new social science theory regarding the social and cultural consequences of long-term war social trauma. It also may lead to better strategies for rehabilitative medicine as well as alternative understandings of what practitioners' work means to themselves, their patients, and the larger national and international community. The research also will contribute to the education of a social scientist.