A body that matters? The role of embodiment in the recomposition of life after a road traffic accident

Moser, Ingunn

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“…Trapped in this dualistic reality, the meaning of individual “lived bodies” ( corps vécus ) against the background of a social‐cultural ideal of embodiment is not approachable, let alone analyzable. My phenomenological approach of analyzing embodied experiences thus supports the present call (in, for instance, disability studies) to “reclaim” the lived body (Shakespeare ; Scully ; Moser ).…”

Section: Bodily Integrity In Contemporary Health Care Ethicssupporting

confidence: 61%

Phenomenology of Bodily Integrity in Disfiguring Breast Cancer

Slatman¹

2012

Hypatia

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In this paper, I explore the meaning of bodily integrity in disfiguring breast cancer. Bodily integrity is a normative principle precisely because it does not simply refer to actual physical or functional intactness. It rather indicates what should be regarded and respected as inviolable in vulnerable and damageable bodies. I will argue that this normative inviolability or wholeness can be based upon a person's embodied experience of wholeness. This phenomenological stance differs from the liberal view that identifies respect for integrity with respect for autonomy (resulting in an invalidation of bodily integrity's proper normative meaning), as well as from the view that bodily integrity is based upon ideologies of wholeness (which runs the risk of being disadvantageous to women). I propose that bodily integrity involves a process of identification between the experience of one's body as “Leib” and the experience of one's body as “Körper.” If identification fails or is not possible, one's integrity is threatened. This idea of bodily integrity can support breast cancer patients and survivors in making decisions about possible corrective interventions. To implement this idea in oncology care, empirical‐phenomenological research needs to establish how breast cancer patients express their embodied self‐experiences.

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Section: Bodily Integrity In Contemporary Health Care Ethicssupporting

confidence: 61%

Phenomenology of Bodily Integrity in Disfiguring Breast Cancer

Slatman¹

2012

Hypatia

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“…After prolonged neglect, disability has become the subject of increasing attention among science and technology studies (STS) scholars (Moser 2000(Moser , 2003(Moser , 2005(Moser , 2006(Moser , 2009Galis 2006;Winance 2006;Diedrich 2005). Drawing on Corker and Shakespeare's assertion that the global experience of disability is too complex to be rendered within one unitary model or set of ideas (2002,15), the topic of this paper is how STS can inform disability studies in the ordering of disability and the representation of disability issues in different techno-scientific forums.…”

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Enacting disability: how can science and technology studies inform disability studies?

Galis

2011

Disability & Society

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This paper aims to discuss how science and technology studies (STS) can inform disability studies and challenge dominant approaches, such as the medical and the social models, in the ordering and representation of disability. Disability studies and STS have followed somewhat parallel paths in the history of ideas. From a positivist approach to their research objects to a strong social constructivism, both disciplines have moved to postmodern conceptualisations of science, technology and disability. In the same manner, this paper brings the conceptual vocabulary of actor-network theory (ANT) to the field of disability studies. ANT enables the ordering of disability as a simultaneous biological, material and semiotic phenomenon. The focus of the analysis shifts from merely defining disability as an impairment, handicap, or social construction (epistemology) to how disability is experienced and enacted in everyday practices, in policy-making, in the body, and in the built environment (ontology). This adoption of an ontological approach to disability allows the analysis to not only discuss how disability is done, but also to follow how disability groups and carriers of disability expertise and experience intervene in policy-making by developing 'research in the wild' and confronting scientific experts in different fora (ontological politics).

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“…Handicaps should not be attributed to dysfunctional bodies but are characteristics of a socially and materially 'handicapping situations' and a social unwillingness to do modify these (Barnes, Mercer, and Shakespeare 1999;Davis 1997;Oliver 1996;WHO 1980). However, the declaration to stay away from biomedicine as a theoretical repertoire is also questioned by disability theorists (Hughes and Paterson 1997;Shakespeare 2006;Hughes 2009;Moser 2009). The opposition to biomedicine makes it difficult to think about (handicapped) bodies in social theory other than in terms of culture.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The physical body, on the contrary, remains the object of biomedical science and practices (Mol and Law 2004). In this model, disease is separated from illness, like nature from culture, and knowledge and facts from beliefs and meanings (Moser 2009;Mol 2002;Mol and Pols 1996).…”

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Breathtaking practicalities: a politics of embodied patient positions

Pols

2011

Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research

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By declaring biomedicine as its apolitical counter-discourse, social theory, including disability studies, experiences problems discussing bodies and their ailments. This paper explores possibilities to 'bring bodies back in' in politically relevant ways, while avoiding reducing bodies to singular, natural 'givens'. This is done by exploring some of the practices in which people with severe Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) attempt to live with their chronic disease and together with others. It becomes clear that what they experience as important physico-social problems are the invisibility of their disease, combined with the visibility of the aids used to deal with its problems. This combination leads to behaviour that is incomprehensible to others. It is demonstrated that some form of presence of the disease is needed to create social positions that allow patients to live with others in an acceptable way. The paper continues by exploring ways in which bodies are made present in useful ways. These are found where the people with COPD: (1) create communities of shared bodies that allow for a multitude of visible and invisible presences of COPD; (2) develop ways to educate their bodies in different ways to create new presences; (3) use their bodies as sources of knowledge about living with breathlessness; and (4) create transportable bodies to take COPD presences elsewhere, by using the argument of 'demonstration by numbers', the workings of time and by playing out the exceptional characteristics of their bodies and situations. The paper concludes with a discussion of the relatively unexplored possibilities for creating and sharing 'patient knowledge' and the areas this opens up for a new politics of social inclusion.

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A body that matters? The role of embodiment in the recomposition of life after a road traffic accident

Cited by 27 publications

References 27 publications

Phenomenology of Bodily Integrity in Disfiguring Breast Cancer

Phenomenology of Bodily Integrity in Disfiguring Breast Cancer

Enacting disability: how can science and technology studies inform disability studies?

Breathtaking practicalities: a politics of embodied patient positions

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