Biographical work and returning to employment following a spinal cord injury

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2265704
AutoresIsabelle Ville (0000-0003-4614-9305, autor correspondente)
Ano2005
Volume27
Fascículo3
Páginas324-350
Data de publicação2005-04-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSociology of Health & Illness (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0141-9889 • E-ISSN: 1467-9566
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-9566.2005.00445.x
PMID15953211
OpenAlexW2001751105
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas13
Referências citadas23

The question of returning to work after the onset of severe impairment is inseparable from the biographical work that disabled people need to achieve. Qualitative analysis of interviews I carried out among people who had become paraplegic and among rehabilitation professionals offered the following insights: * During a period extending beyond rehabilitation, interviewees were absorbed by the work of coming to terms with their impairment and delegated the question of occupation to the professionals. At a later date, some of them manage to recast their biographies and gain ownership of their occupations and activities for themselves. An open environment, which offers negotiable opportunities and space for relationships to form, encourages the development of biographical work. Nowadays, the question of exclusion would appear to dominate the domain of rehabilitation. The belief that prolonged inactivity engenders marginalisation has led professionals to develop a doctrine whereby they encourage their patients to plan for their professional activities from a very early stage. Struggling with different time demands (for example, lengthy administrative procedures and reduced rehabilitation time) professionals organise their work around a new time frame which conflicts with their expertise and is difficult to reconcile with the trajectories of disabled people

Doctrine · Physical therapy · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Work (physics · Disability Rights and Representation · Engineering · Interprofessional Education and Collaboration · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Occupational Therapy Practice and Research · Psychology · Rehabilitation