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COVID-19 and Health and Social Services Devoted to Cognitive Disabled People in Italy: Regional Comparative Case Studies
No full textIn Italy, policies and services devoted to persons with disabilities, particularly those with cognitive disabilities, are still characterized by institutional segmentation and are focused on the medical model and therefore on rehabilitation, rather than on social participation, despite the formal ratification of the UNCRPD in 2009. This chapter analyses the pandemic impact by focusing on daily services, as a central service of welfare disability policy, and investigating if the pandemic has strengthened the dominant medical view, or if it has been an opportunity for a more integrated (social and health services) provision of services for people with disabilities, particularly with cognitive disabilities, and their families. Data on two regional case studies show severe differences in implementing national regulation to manage the pandemic at regional level. The difficulties experienced by both families and healthcare and social professionals are similar in the two contexts, but the different organizational system concerning social and health care services outlines contexts with different rights
Introduzione al Volume "Disability Welfare Policy in Europe: Cognitive Disability and the Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic"
No full textDisability Welfare Policy in Europe:Cognitive Disability and the Impact
of the Covid-19 Pandemic analyses the impact of the Covid-19
pandemic on persons with cognitive disabilities and their families.
Written from a Disability Studies perspective, this edited collection
investigates education, employment, social and health care services in
European case studies.
Recognising how Covid-19 health surveillance has limited the rights of
all persons, the chapters demonstrate how its impact has been even
more severe on persons with cognitive disabilities and their families.
Outlining the changes in welfare services during the Covid-19
pandemic that have led to new forms of segregation and hindered full
participation of persons with disabilities in society on an equal basis
with others, the collection chronicles a setback in the process of
implementing the UN Convention for the Rights of Persons with
Disabilities (UNCRPD).
Within the framework of public sociology, Disability Welfare Policy in
Europe:Cognitive Disability and the Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic
shows the failure of the attempts aimed at shifting disability policy into
the mainstream. The authors highlight how persons with disabilities,
their families, as well as personnel working in disability welfare policy
have fought to keep the perspectives and rights of persons with
disabilities on the policy agenda. If the Covid-19 health surveillance has
rendered persons with disabilities invisible, how can they be made
visible once again
Chapter 1 Disability in Europe in Pandemic Time: Theoretical Background
No full textWelfare policies for persons with disabilities have been strongly affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, and this introductory chapter provides the theoretical background to the book. Definition, data and main European policies about disabilities are outlined. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) is the key pillar of disability policies in European countries. In line with a Disability Studies perspective, Covid-19 health surveillance regime has been a challenge in the implementation process of the UNCRPD, highlighting the role of lay knowledge and community of practices in managing everyday challenges for persons with disabilities and their families, and therefore their potential role in becoming part of epistemic communities to support the policy making and implementation process of the UNCRPD
Conclusion "Disability Welfare Policy in Europe: Cognitive Disability and the Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic"
No full textThe chapter presents the similarities and the differences between the different case studies reported in the book and suggests some conclusion on the impact of Covid-19 on policies and practices devoted to persons with cognitive disabilities from a macro, meso and micro point of view. The Covid-19 surveillance regime has made people with disabilities, and particularly with intellectual ones, even more invisible, since their rights have been consistently under-represented in the different national contexts. Persons with intellectual disabilities have been considered objects of protection and this overprotective stance turns into an increasing process of institutionalisation, segregation and familiarisation of care. The Covid-19 surveillance regime has brought into light the limits of the implementation of the UN Convention and of the EU Strategy, but the book and the emerging epistemic community, in the framework of public sociology, contribute to support the rights of all persons, with or without disabilities, in public welfare policies in Europe
Graphic Medicine. Una disciplina in cerca di autore
No full textThe paper analyses the use of graphic novels in social sciences and investigates the contribution of Graphic Medicine, an upcoming but fast-growing discipline, to sociology of health and illness. The article firstly illustrates the characteristics of comics and graphic novels as visual media able to offer multi-faceted communi- cation opportunities, thanks to the combination of visual and textual codes. The authors secondly maintain the ability of graphic narratives to strengthen all the three elements of the Twaddle’s triad. Graphic pathographies portray the visceral aspects of the personal experience with a disease (illness) in an economic way. They expand the illness narratives of both patients and caregivers. Moreover, as part of a non-official iconography of illness and disability, graphic novels may reverse stereotypes and challenge the stigma of vulnerability, by modifying its cultural representation (sickness). Lastly, comics and graphic novels are useful in medical education, to make students critically reflect upon clinical practice and upon the biomedical conception of the disease (disease) in line with a bio- psycho-social model. The authors hope for scholars to open a debate about the use of graphic narratives in social sciences, in order to highlight advantages and drawbacks of graphic based research in different fields
Il fumetto nella formazione medica. Il caso della Scuola di Medicina e Chirurgia di Bologna
No full textThe article presents the results of an experimental project on the use of comics as teaching methods within the medical schools in Italy. Although Graphic Medicine, namely the use of comics in the healthcare field, is an international established scholarly field, national initia- tives are still fragmented, particularly in the educational sector. The results of two graphic based workshops with the students of the School of Medicine and Surgery, within the Uni- versity of Bologna, show the potential of comics in facilitating the interiorization of stu- dents’ professional identity and the development of emotional and relational skills. The combination of words and images, as well as the flexibility and the accessibility of comics, allow the development of clinical empathy and foster medical students’ socialisation to the norms and values of the future professional role
MEDICINA CREATIVA: IL RUOLO DEI FUMETTI NEI CORSI DI LAUREA IN MEDICINA
Full text linkThis article presents the results of an exploratory study designed to investigate the expe- riences of medical students who attended comics-based courses during their education. Seventeen in-depth interviews were conducted with U.S. and Canadian male and female students who had completed at least one course in the five years prior to the interview. The objective of the study was to understand the potential impact of the use of graphic narratives on the development of clinical empathy toward future patients and on the awareness of the different perspectives that characterize the illness experience. The thematic analysis of the interviews revealed that graphic tools mainly affected the formation of professional identity, understood as personal and collective identity. The comic strips seem to be useful in developing students’ critical thinking toward their training, the health care system more generally, and in processing the complex emotions associated with the transition to the future professional role
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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