Rétablissement / Pair-aidance
Certains mots utilisés par les institutions médicales proviennent de l’activisme handi. C’est le cas des concepts de rétablissement et de pair-aidance, qui ont été progressivement appropriés et intégrés au régime normatif du soin. On pourrait en partie s’en réjouir si l’adoption de ces mots s’accompagnait de réformes davantage centrées sur les points de vue des malades. C’est malheureusement rarement le cas, et si le vocabulaire change, les hiérarchies entre soignants et patients subsistent.
Recovery / Peer Support
Some of the words used by medical institutions have their origins in disability activism. Such is the case with the concepts of recovery and peer support, which have gradually been appropriated and integrated into the normative regime of care. This would be welcome if the adoption of these words were accompanied by reforms that were indeed more focused on patients’ points of view. Unfortunately, this is rarely the case, and while the vocabulary may be changing, some of the hierarchies between caregivers and patients remain.
