Radley Alan, Taylor Diane
Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK.
Qual Health Res. 2003 Jan;13(1):77-99. doi: 10.1177/1049732302239412.
The authors attempted to discover the part the physical setting of the ward plays in patients' recovery by asking patients to take photographs of their ward, its spaces and objects, and then interviewing them about these images in hospital and subsequently in their homes. Photography allowed the patients to identify and capture aspects of the setting that they found salient and provided the photo-elicitation material for the interviews. Based on these data, the authors present (a) a critical discussion of the use of photography as method and its implications for qualitative analysis, (b) an overview of the kinds of image taken with respect to the ward and the course of patients' recovery, and (c) a theoretical analysis, employing Walter Benjamin's use of the concept of mimesis, that understands recovery as a bodily act in response to the shock to the senses that hospitalization and surgery produce.
作者试图通过让患者拍摄病房、病房空间及物品的照片，然后在医院及随后在患者家中就这些照片对他们进行访谈，来探究病房的物理环境在患者康复过程中所起的作用。摄影使患者能够识别并捕捉他们认为突出的环境方面，并为访谈提供了照片引发材料。基于这些数据，作者呈现了：(a) 对摄影作为一种方法的使用及其对定性分析的影响的批判性讨论；(b) 关于所拍摄的与病房及患者康复过程相关的各类图像的概述；以及 (c) 一种理论分析，运用沃尔特·本雅明对模仿概念的运用，将康复理解为一种身体行为，是对住院和手术所产生的感官冲击的回应。
