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ArticleThe Journal of medical humanities2021

Seriously Foolish and Foolishly Serious: The Art and Practice of Clowning in Children's Rehabilitation.

Julia Gray, Helen Donnelly, Barbara E Gibson

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Article in The Journal of medical humanities, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. "I made you a small room in my heart": how therapeutic clowns meet the needs of older adults in nursing homes.International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being · 2023
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Julia GrayBloorview Research Institute, Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital, 150 Kilgour Road, Toronto, ON, M4G 1R8, Canada. jgray@hollandbloorview.ca.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0324-9146
Helen DonnellyBloorview Research Institute, Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital, 150 Kilgour Road, Toronto, ON, M4G 1R8, Canada.
Barbara E GibsonBloorview Research Institute, Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital, 150 Kilgour Road, Toronto, ON, M4G 1R8, Canada.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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.

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HospitalsChildHumansApplied performanceChildhood disabilityChildren’s rehabilitationFailureTherapeutic clowns

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