Pia C Kontos
Biographic Data
| ID | 195643 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pia C Kontos |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pia C |
| FAMILY NAME | Kontos |
| SIGNATURE | KONTOS P C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 204 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Improving Client-Centered Brain Injury Rehabilitation Through Research-Based Theater
Traumatic brain injury often results in physical, behavioral, and cognitive impairments perceived by health care practitioners to limit or exclude clients' full participation in treatment decision making. We used qualitative methods to evaluate the short- and long-term impact of "After the Crash: A Play About Brain Injury," a research-based drama designed to teach client-centered care principles to brain injury rehabilitation staff. We conducted …
Tacit knowledge of caring and embodied selfhood
The tacit knowledge paradigm is gaining recognition as an important source of knowledge that informs clinical decision-making. It is, however, limited by an exclusive focus on knowledge acquired through clinical practice, and a consequent neglect of the primordial and socio-cultural significance of embodied selfhood, precisely what provides the foundational structure of tacit knowledge of caring and facilitates its manifestation. Drawing on findi…
Expressions of Personhood in Alzheimer's Disease: An Evaluation of Research-Based Theatre as a Pedagogical Tool
A growing number of scholars are turning to dramatic performance as an innovative approach to disseminating the results of qualitative research. With an interest in this aesthetic practice, the authors transformed ethnographic research on personhood in Alzheimer's disease into a dramatic production, Expressions of Personhood in Alzheimer's , which was performed at the outset of focus group discussions with health practitioners. In this article, t…
Expressions of personhood in Alzheimer's: Moving From Ethnographic Text to Performing Ethnography
This article discusses the translation of ethnographic research on embodied selfhood in Alzheimer's disease into a dramatic production for nurses and ancillary health care professionals working with persons who are cognitively impaired. The appeal of dramatic performance as an alternative medium for the translation and dissemination of research is that it provides an accessible presentation of research to audiences of diverse disciplinary backgro…
Embodied selfhood in Alzheimer's disease: Rethinking person-centred care
Dementia care practices are premised on a model of Alzheimer's disease that denies the body an agential role in the constitution and manifestation of selfhood. As a consequence, despite advances in person-centred care, the body, which is a substantive means by which persons with advancing dementia engage with the world, is treated as passive rather than active and intentional. My central argument is that dementia care practices must embrace the i…
Ethnographic reflections on selfhood, embodiment and Alzheimer's disease
Explicit in the current construction of Alzheimer's disease is the assumption that memory impairment caused by cognitive deficiencies leads to a steady loss of selfhood. The insistence that selfhood is the exclusive privilege of the sphere of cognition has its origins in the modern western philosophical tradition that separates mind from body, and positions the former as superior to the latter. This dichotomy suggests a fundamental passivity of t…
The painterly hand: Embodied consciousness and Alzheimer's disease
Local biology: Bodies of difference in ageing studies
In this article I critically examine the biology/culture dualism in the context of old age. Regarding the contextualisation of the interrelationship between biology and culture, previous studies have not adequately explored the interaction between the physiological process of ageing, the physical and social surroundings of the body and the body's intentionality. I suggest ways in which anthropological and feminist advances in deconstructions and …
Resisting institutionalization: Constructing old age and negotiating home
Tacit knowledge of caring and embodied selfhood
The tacit knowledge paradigm is gaining recognition as an important source of knowledge that informs clinical decision-making. It is, however, limited by an exclusive focus on knowledge acquired through clinical practice, and a consequent neglect of the primordial and socio-cultural significance of embodied selfhood, precisely what provides the foundational structure of tacit knowledge of caring and facilitates its manifestation. Drawing on findi…
Ethnographic reflections on selfhood, embodiment and Alzheimer's disease
Explicit in the current construction of Alzheimer's disease is the assumption that memory impairment caused by cognitive deficiencies leads to a steady loss of selfhood. The insistence that selfhood is the exclusive privilege of the sphere of cognition has its origins in the modern western philosophical tradition that separates mind from body, and positions the former as superior to the latter. This dichotomy suggests a fundamental passivity of t…
The painterly hand: Embodied consciousness and Alzheimer's disease
Expressions of personhood in Alzheimer's: Moving From Ethnographic Text to Performing Ethnography
This article discusses the translation of ethnographic research on embodied selfhood in Alzheimer's disease into a dramatic production for nurses and ancillary health care professionals working with persons who are cognitively impaired. The appeal of dramatic performance as an alternative medium for the translation and dissemination of research is that it provides an accessible presentation of research to audiences of diverse disciplinary backgro…
Resisting institutionalization: Constructing old age and negotiating home
Expressions of Personhood in Alzheimer's Disease: An Evaluation of Research-Based Theatre as a Pedagogical Tool
A growing number of scholars are turning to dramatic performance as an innovative approach to disseminating the results of qualitative research. With an interest in this aesthetic practice, the authors transformed ethnographic research on personhood in Alzheimer's disease into a dramatic production, Expressions of Personhood in Alzheimer's , which was performed at the outset of focus group discussions with health practitioners. In this article, t…
Improving Client-Centered Brain Injury Rehabilitation Through Research-Based Theater
Traumatic brain injury often results in physical, behavioral, and cognitive impairments perceived by health care practitioners to limit or exclude clients' full participation in treatment decision making. We used qualitative methods to evaluate the short- and long-term impact of "After the Crash: A Play About Brain Injury," a research-based drama designed to teach client-centered care principles to brain injury rehabilitation staff. We conducted …
Local biology: Bodies of difference in ageing studies
In this article I critically examine the biology/culture dualism in the context of old age. Regarding the contextualisation of the interrelationship between biology and culture, previous studies have not adequately explored the interaction between the physiological process of ageing, the physical and social surroundings of the body and the body's intentionality. I suggest ways in which anthropological and feminist advances in deconstructions and …
Resisting institutionalization: Constructing old age and negotiating home
Local biology: Bodies of difference in ageing studies
In this article I critically examine the biology/culture dualism in the context of old age. Regarding the contextualisation of the interrelationship between biology and culture, previous studies have not adequately explored the interaction between the physiological process of ageing, the physical and social surroundings of the body and the body's intentionality. I suggest ways in which anthropological and feminist advances in deconstructions and …
The painterly hand: Embodied consciousness and Alzheimer's disease
Ethnographic reflections on selfhood, embodiment and Alzheimer's disease
Explicit in the current construction of Alzheimer's disease is the assumption that memory impairment caused by cognitive deficiencies leads to a steady loss of selfhood. The insistence that selfhood is the exclusive privilege of the sphere of cognition has its origins in the modern western philosophical tradition that separates mind from body, and positions the former as superior to the latter. This dichotomy suggests a fundamental passivity of t…
Embodied selfhood in Alzheimer's disease: Rethinking person-centred care
Dementia care practices are premised on a model of Alzheimer's disease that denies the body an agential role in the constitution and manifestation of selfhood. As a consequence, despite advances in person-centred care, the body, which is a substantive means by which persons with advancing dementia engage with the world, is treated as passive rather than active and intentional. My central argument is that dementia care practices must embrace the i…
Expressions of personhood in Alzheimer's: Moving From Ethnographic Text to Performing Ethnography
This article discusses the translation of ethnographic research on embodied selfhood in Alzheimer's disease into a dramatic production for nurses and ancillary health care professionals working with persons who are cognitively impaired. The appeal of dramatic performance as an alternative medium for the translation and dissemination of research is that it provides an accessible presentation of research to audiences of diverse disciplinary backgro…
Expressions of Personhood in Alzheimer's Disease: An Evaluation of Research-Based Theatre as a Pedagogical Tool
A growing number of scholars are turning to dramatic performance as an innovative approach to disseminating the results of qualitative research. With an interest in this aesthetic practice, the authors transformed ethnographic research on personhood in Alzheimer's disease into a dramatic production, Expressions of Personhood in Alzheimer's , which was performed at the outset of focus group discussions with health practitioners. In this article, t…
Tacit knowledge of caring and embodied selfhood
The tacit knowledge paradigm is gaining recognition as an important source of knowledge that informs clinical decision-making. It is, however, limited by an exclusive focus on knowledge acquired through clinical practice, and a consequent neglect of the primordial and socio-cultural significance of embodied selfhood, precisely what provides the foundational structure of tacit knowledge of caring and facilitates its manifestation. Drawing on findi…
Improving Client-Centered Brain Injury Rehabilitation Through Research-Based Theater
Traumatic brain injury often results in physical, behavioral, and cognitive impairments perceived by health care practitioners to limit or exclude clients' full participation in treatment decision making. We used qualitative methods to evaluate the short- and long-term impact of "After the Crash: A Play About Brain Injury," a research-based drama designed to teach client-centered care principles to brain injury rehabilitation staff. We conducted …
Psychology (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Art Therapy and Mental Health (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Participatory Visual Research Methods (5 works) · Ethnography (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Drama (3 works) · Embodied cognition (3 works)