Research
研究詳細
人は誰しも人生の中で、怪我や疾病、障害、引退、老い等により、自らの身体機能や社会的な役割が変化することを経験します。
こうした変化は身体的・心理的な「痛み」をもたらすだけでなく、能力や役割が人の価値と結びつけられやすい社会では「自らの価値を失った」という感覚を生み、その痛みをさらに増幅することに繋がります。この「変容期の痛み」がもたらす困難や弱さは、周囲の人々の関心や関わりを引き出し、人と人とのつながりや支え合いというケアの起点になり得ます。また、周囲の人々も、その関わりを通じて自らの弱さや生き方を捉え直したり、支えられたりすることがあります。そこでは、ケアする側／される側の役割は固定されたものではなく、人と人との関係の中で相互に入れ替わり、ケアが巡っていくことが考えられます。
身体的痛み
怪我や疾病等に伴う身体的痛み
心理社会的な痛み
職業・役割変容に伴う心理社会的な痛み
身体機能の喪失と身体拡張
義足等の身体拡張工学による支援
本プロジェクトでは、この「変容期の痛み」とそこに生じるケアの関係を、怪我や疾病等に伴う身体的痛み、職業・役割変容に伴う心理社会的な痛み、身体機能の喪失と身体拡張等の観点から分析・可視化します。また、医療・緩和ケア、当事者参加、義足等の身体拡張工学やデジタル可視化技術を通じて、こうしたケアの関係が広がる条件を探究します。そして、変容のあり方に関わらず一人ひとりの存在が尊重され、ケアする／される関係が固定されず、人と人との間に巡る社会の実現を目指します。
Everyone, at some point in life, experiences unintended modification of individually biopsychosocial nursling like as physical functions and psychosocial roles due to injury, illness, disability, retirement, aging or other factors. Such modification can bring not only physically- and psychosocially-experiencing pain but also impairments of meaning of a persons’ existence especially in a society where one’s abilities and roles are readily linked to one’s worth. Subsequently, these biopsychosocial pain feelings, which is defined as “reframing pain” in this project, might get worse and worse. The hardships and vulnerabilities arising from “reframing pain” can induce respects and engagements from others orbit around persons with “reframing pain”. And then, the persons with “reframing pain” can serve as a catalyst for care which manifests interpersonal communications and supports. Throughout these communications, other persons orbit around persons with “reframing pain” can also find themselves supported by others and reconsider their own biopsychosocial weakness and lifestyles. The roles of caregivers and care recipients are not fixed, and instead the roles can always switch positions with each other. And finally, care can be allowed to continuously circulate orbit around persons experiencing “reframing pain” throughout the entire society.
This research project plans to investigate and visualize the relationships between “reframing pain” and care arising from it, from the several lines of standing points of physical pain consequent to injury or illness, psychosocial pain linked to unintended modification of occupational and psychosocial roles and the physical disability and its body augmentation. We plan to explore the conditions how reciprocal and circulating care expands from small community to entire society level, based on our medical and palliative care perspective, participatory research approach, body-augmentation engineering like as prosthetics and digital visualization technologies.
Our goal of this research project is to realize the care-circulating society where presences themselves of persons with “reframing pain” consequent to experiencing unintended modification of individually biopsychosocial nursling. Regardless of their personal attributes, the persons serve as a catalyst for care to emerge reciprocally and then circulate in the society where the roles of caregivers and care recipients are not fixed. Realization of the society can make it easier for everyone to express and accept “reframing pain” each other.