The rehabilitation hospital as a "Parenthetical Bubble-Shell"
This essay contrasts the experiences of hospitalisation and transition from hospital to home of people who have recently acquired a spinal cord injury (SCI) and the health professionals who work with them before and during pandemic-related restrictions. These experiences are analysed through the the...
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| Formato: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2023 |
| País: | España |
| Recursos: | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
| Repositorio: | Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ddd.uab.cat:324280 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://ddd.uab.cat/record/324280 https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.1177/12063312231181524 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palavra-chave: | COVID-19 Ableism Disability Disablism Liminality |
| Resumo: | This essay contrasts the experiences of hospitalisation and transition from hospital to home of people who have recently acquired a spinal cord injury (SCI) and the health professionals who work with them before and during pandemic-related restrictions. These experiences are analysed through the theoretical frameworks of liminality and intersectional Critical Disability Studies. Drawing on narrative-ethnographic data collected in Spain, I illustrate that the rehabilitation hospital is conceived as a 'parenthetical bubble-shell' the boundedness and permeability of which was radically altered during lockdown. First, I discuss how this transformed the way people with an SCI adjust to new ways of approaching space and time in hospital settings. Second, I explore how lockdown impacted key processes of 'discharge preparation'. Third, I argue that the intersection between ability, gender and social class modulates the extent to which exiting the hospital before and during the pandemic represented an ongoing crisis. |
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