Quadriplegia, virtue theory and flourishing: A qualitative study drawing on self-narratives

Clifton, Shane, Llewellyn, Gwynnyth and Shakespeare, Tom (2018) Quadriplegia, virtue theory and flourishing: A qualitative study drawing on self-narratives. Disability & Society, 33 (1). pp. 20-38. ISSN 0968-7599

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Abstract

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.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	virtue,spinal cord injury,narrative,the good life,flourishing,eudaimonia
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Norwich Medical School
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Epidemiology and Public Health
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	16 Sep 2017 05:06
Last Modified:	21 Oct 2022 16:31
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/64900
DOI:	10.1080/09687599.2017.1379951

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