Social Representations of the Wheelchair for People with Spinal Cord Injury Representaciones sociales de la silla de ruedas para la persona con lesión de la médula espinal Representações sociais da cadeira de rodas para a pessoa com lesão da medula espinhal

In seeking to understand the social representation of the use of the wheelchair through the analysis of interviews with ten people who have suffered spinal cord injury, the construction of five representations was elaborated. The phenomenon experienced regarding the wheelchair provided a route of me...

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Main Authors: Viviane de Souza Pinho Costa, Marcia Regina Antonietto Costa Melo, Mara Lúcia Garanhani, Dirce Shizuko Fujisawa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo 2010-08-01
Series:Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-11692010000400014