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Difference Within and Without: Health Care Providers' Engagement With Disability Arts
Katharine Viscardis1, Carla Rice2, Victoria Pileggi2
11 Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada.
Qualitative Health Research
|November 20, 2018
Summary
Disability arts workshops help healthcare providers challenge norms of embodiment and understand disability beyond medical definitions. This fosters critical reflection and new perspectives on patient care and provider vulnerability.
Area of Science:
- Arts-based research
- Health humanities
- Disability studies
Background:
- Dominant healthcare discourse often relies on a mythical norm of human embodiment.
- Misrepresented communities, particularly those with disabilities, require more inclusive representation.
- Arts-based research offers innovative methods for exploring complex social issues.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate how disability arts can disrupt conventional notions of disability and embodiment in healthcare.
- To explore the potential of arts-based methods for fostering new representations of bodymind diversity.
- To examine how healthcare providers' engagement with disability arts influences their understanding of embodied difference and vulnerability.
Main Methods:
- Analysis of videos created by healthcare providers in disability artist-led workshops.
- Arts-based research methodologies focusing on multimedia storytelling.
- Qualitative exploration of providers' self-reflective engagement with their experiences and assumptions.
Main Results:
- Healthcare providers engaged in unsettling the mythical norm of human embodiment.
- Providers developed non-medical understandings of disability.
- Self-reflection through art-making led to recognition of assumptions and personal vulnerability.
Conclusions:
- Disability arts practices facilitate critical reflection and shifts in attitudes towards embodied difference.
- Art-making can cultivate new affective responses to diversity within healthcare settings.
- Engaging with disability arts encourages healthcare providers to recognize the vulnerability inherent in their own embodied lives.
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