TY - JOUR
T1 - Subverting medical vulneration
T2 - Dissident bodily itineraries of disability in Chile
AU - Pino-Morán, Juan Andrés
AU - Rodríguez-Garrido, Pía
AU - Zango-Martín, Inmaculada
AU - Mora-Malo, Enrico
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PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Chile
KW - Disabled Persons
KW - Human Body
KW - Political Activism
KW - Social Vulnerability
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85103324734&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.18294/sc.2021.3021
DO - 10.18294/sc.2021.3021
M3 - Article
C2 - 33822546
AN - SCOPUS:85103324734
SN - 1669-2381
VL - 17
SP - 1
EP - 16
JO - Salud Colectiva
JF - Salud Colectiva
ER -
