Bloorview Research Institute, Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital, 150 Kilgour Road, Toronto, ON, M4G 1R8, Canada.
Department of Physical Therapy, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
J Med Humanit. 2021 Sep;42(3):453-469. doi: 10.1007/s10912-019-09570-0.
This paper interrogates and reclaims clown practices in children's rehabilitation as 'foolish.' Attempts to legitimize and 'take seriously' clown practices in the health sciences frame the work of clowns as secondary to the 'real' work of medical professionals and diminish the ways clowns support emotional vulnerability and bravery with a willingness to fail and be ridiculous as fundamental to their work. Narrow conceptualizations of clown practices in hospitals as only happy and funny overlook the ways clowns also routinely engage with sadness, despair, discomfort and many other ways of being and doing. Our exploration of clown practices as foolish exposes the ways children's rehabilitation upholds particular neoliberal models of success and invites a re-centring of rehabilitation and health care research and practice towards relationship building, supporting meaningful projects and a continued nurturing of aesthetic and pleasurable ways of being-in-the-world in the present moment as valuable unto themselves.
本文探讨并重新定义了儿童康复中的小丑实践为“愚蠢”。试图将小丑实践合法化并“认真对待”在健康科学领域，将小丑的工作置于医疗专业人员的“真正”工作之下，贬低了小丑通过愿意失败和滑稽可笑来支持情感脆弱和勇敢的方式，这些方式是他们工作的基础。将医院小丑实践狭隘地定义为只有快乐和有趣，忽略了小丑也经常处理悲伤、绝望、不适和许多其他存在和做事的方式。我们将小丑实践视为愚蠢的探索，揭示了儿童康复如何维护特定的新自由主义成功模式，并邀请重新关注康复和医疗保健研究和实践，以建立关系、支持有意义的项目，并继续培养在当下世界中审美和愉悦的存在方式，因为它们本身就具有价值。
