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Exploring the intersection of critical disability studies, humanities and global health through a case study of scarf injuries in Bangladesh
This article puts critical disability studies and global health into conversation around the phenomenon of scarf injury in Bangladesh. Scarf injury occurs when a woman wearing a long, traditional scarf called an orna rides in a recently introduced autorickshaw with a design flaw that allows the orna...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9185814/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35501122 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2021-012244 |
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author | Tupetz, Anna Quirici, Marion Sultana, Mohsina Hoque, Kazi Imdadul Stewart, Kearsley Alison Landry, Michel |
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description | This article puts critical disability studies and global health into conversation around the phenomenon of scarf injury in Bangladesh. Scarf injury occurs when a woman wearing a long, traditional scarf called an orna rides in a recently introduced autorickshaw with a design flaw that allows the orna to become entangled in the vehicle’s driveshaft. Caught in the engine, the orna pulls the woman’s neck into hyperextension, causing a debilitating high cervical spinal cord injury and quadriplegia. The circumstances of the scarf injury reveal the need for more critical cultural analysis than the fields of global health and rehabilitation typically offer. First, the fatal design flaw of the vehicle reflects different norms of gender and dress in China, where the vehicle is manufactured, versus Bangladesh, where the vehicle is purchased at a low price and assembled on-site—a situation that calls transnational capitalist modes of production and exchange into question. Second, the experiences of women with scarf injuries entail many challenges beyond the injury itself: the transition to life with disability following the rehabilitation period is made more difficult by negative perceptions of disability, lack of resources and accessible infrastructure, and cultural norms of gender and class in Bangladesh. Our cross-disciplinary conversation about women with scarf injuries, involving critical disability studies, global health and rehabilitation experts, exposes the shortcomings of each of these fields but also illustrates the urgent need for deeper and more purposeful collaborations. We, therefore, argue that the developing subfield of global health humanities should include purposeful integration of a humanities-based critical disability studies methodology. |
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spelling | pubmed-91858142022-06-16 Exploring the intersection of critical disability studies, humanities and global health through a case study of scarf injuries in Bangladesh Tupetz, Anna Quirici, Marion Sultana, Mohsina Hoque, Kazi Imdadul Stewart, Kearsley Alison Landry, Michel Med Humanit Original Research This article puts critical disability studies and global health into conversation around the phenomenon of scarf injury in Bangladesh. Scarf injury occurs when a woman wearing a long, traditional scarf called an orna rides in a recently introduced autorickshaw with a design flaw that allows the orna to become entangled in the vehicle’s driveshaft. Caught in the engine, the orna pulls the woman’s neck into hyperextension, causing a debilitating high cervical spinal cord injury and quadriplegia. The circumstances of the scarf injury reveal the need for more critical cultural analysis than the fields of global health and rehabilitation typically offer. First, the fatal design flaw of the vehicle reflects different norms of gender and dress in China, where the vehicle is manufactured, versus Bangladesh, where the vehicle is purchased at a low price and assembled on-site—a situation that calls transnational capitalist modes of production and exchange into question. Second, the experiences of women with scarf injuries entail many challenges beyond the injury itself: the transition to life with disability following the rehabilitation period is made more difficult by negative perceptions of disability, lack of resources and accessible infrastructure, and cultural norms of gender and class in Bangladesh. Our cross-disciplinary conversation about women with scarf injuries, involving critical disability studies, global health and rehabilitation experts, exposes the shortcomings of each of these fields but also illustrates the urgent need for deeper and more purposeful collaborations. We, therefore, argue that the developing subfield of global health humanities should include purposeful integration of a humanities-based critical disability studies methodology. BMJ Publishing Group 2022-06 2022-05-02 /pmc/articles/PMC9185814/ /pubmed/35501122 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2021-012244 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2022. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Original Research Tupetz, Anna Quirici, Marion Sultana, Mohsina Hoque, Kazi Imdadul Stewart, Kearsley Alison Landry, Michel Exploring the intersection of critical disability studies, humanities and global health through a case study of scarf injuries in Bangladesh |
title | Exploring the intersection of critical disability studies, humanities and global health through a case study of scarf injuries in Bangladesh |
title_full | Exploring the intersection of critical disability studies, humanities and global health through a case study of scarf injuries in Bangladesh |
title_fullStr | Exploring the intersection of critical disability studies, humanities and global health through a case study of scarf injuries in Bangladesh |
title_full_unstemmed | Exploring the intersection of critical disability studies, humanities and global health through a case study of scarf injuries in Bangladesh |
title_short | Exploring the intersection of critical disability studies, humanities and global health through a case study of scarf injuries in Bangladesh |
title_sort | exploring the intersection of critical disability studies, humanities and global health through a case study of scarf injuries in bangladesh |
topic | Original Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9185814/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35501122 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2021-012244 |
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