CLIFTON, Shane/LLEWELLYN, Gwynnyth/SHAKESPEARE, Tom
ISBN / ISSN:
ISSN 0968-7599
Année de publication:
2018
Date de publication:
01/01/2018
Résumé:
Grounded in the logic of the virtue tradition, the qualitative study “the good life and quadriplegia” collected the self-narratives of people that have lived with the impairment over the medium to long term. This article draws on those narratives to describe how people understood the good life in the context of the losses and hardship of their spinal-cord injury, and the virtues and attitudes that helped them to achieve it. While highlighting the importance of virtue, participant stories resisted the ideology of the positivity myth, recognising that flourishing includes hardships, limitation, and failure, as well as meaning, virtue, and accomplishment. [Résumé d'auteur]