Subverting medical vulneration: Dissident bodily itineraries of disability in Chile

Acknowledging dissident bodies of persons with disabilities is an act of continuous resistance, and as such our objective in this article is to analyze the vulnerability and bodily violation of disability activists in Chile. In order to do so, between September 2018 and February 2019 we conducted 11...

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Autores principales: Juan Andrés Pino-Morán, Pía Rodríguez-Garrrido, Inmaculada Zango-Martín, Enrico Mora-Malo
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:23e2437ac08b4b249e88fd64543038ec2021-11-09T16:40:43ZSubverting medical vulneration: Dissident bodily itineraries of disability in Chile1669-23811851-826510.18294/sc.2021.3021https://doaj.org/article/23e2437ac08b4b249e88fd64543038ec2021-03-01T00:00:00Zhttp://revistas.unla.edu.ar/saludcolectiva/article/view/3021https://doaj.org/toc/1669-2381https://doaj.org/toc/1851-8265Acknowledging dissident bodies of persons with disabilities is an act of continuous resistance, and as such our objective in this article is to analyze the vulnerability and bodily violation of disability activists in Chile. In order to do so, between September 2018 and February 2019 we conducted 11 in-depth interviews using the technique of bodily itineraries, as well as 6 discussion groups. Through qualitative thematic analysis, several categories emerged: the central category of “Bodily change or difference: experiences of medicalized fragility;” and three subcategories, “Bodily diagnosis: the institutional management of differences;” “Medical treatment: correcting bodily and social abnormality;” and “Rehabilitation: to function once again as a normative body.” Activists’ itineraries reveal the coaptation and bodily violation that they are subjected to by the biomedical apparatus, where they are systematically denied their human rights; however, despite attempts to discipline and control them, they create subversive strategies to validate their corporealities.Juan Andrés Pino-MoránPía Rodríguez-GarrridoInmaculada Zango-MartínEnrico Mora-MaloInstituto de Salud Colectiva, Universidad Nacional de Lanúsarticlepolitical activismhuman bodydisabled personssocial vulnerabilitychileMedicineRPublic aspects of medicineRA1-1270ENESSalud Colectiva, Vol 17, Pp e3021-e3021 (2021)
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human body
disabled persons
social vulnerability
chile
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Juan Andrés Pino-Morán
Pía Rodríguez-Garrrido
Inmaculada Zango-Martín
Enrico Mora-Malo
Subverting medical vulneration: Dissident bodily itineraries of disability in Chile
description Acknowledging dissident bodies of persons with disabilities is an act of continuous resistance, and as such our objective in this article is to analyze the vulnerability and bodily violation of disability activists in Chile. In order to do so, between September 2018 and February 2019 we conducted 11 in-depth interviews using the technique of bodily itineraries, as well as 6 discussion groups. Through qualitative thematic analysis, several categories emerged: the central category of “Bodily change or difference: experiences of medicalized fragility;” and three subcategories, “Bodily diagnosis: the institutional management of differences;” “Medical treatment: correcting bodily and social abnormality;” and “Rehabilitation: to function once again as a normative body.” Activists’ itineraries reveal the coaptation and bodily violation that they are subjected to by the biomedical apparatus, where they are systematically denied their human rights; however, despite attempts to discipline and control them, they create subversive strategies to validate their corporealities.
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author Juan Andrés Pino-Morán
Pía Rodríguez-Garrrido
Inmaculada Zango-Martín
Enrico Mora-Malo
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title Subverting medical vulneration: Dissident bodily itineraries of disability in Chile
title_short Subverting medical vulneration: Dissident bodily itineraries of disability in Chile
title_full Subverting medical vulneration: Dissident bodily itineraries of disability in Chile
title_fullStr Subverting medical vulneration: Dissident bodily itineraries of disability in Chile
title_full_unstemmed Subverting medical vulneration: Dissident bodily itineraries of disability in Chile
title_sort subverting medical vulneration: dissident bodily itineraries of disability in chile
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