Abstract
AbstractIn the Argentinian healthcare system, medical residents play a key role in producing, sustaining, and witnessing intensely painful therapeutic interventions in children's bodies. I analyse the interactions between medical residents and children to focus on children's use of humour in a paediatric public hospital as a tool to navigate raw and invasive treatments. Humour was tactically used in two critical ways to deal with power differential: as a critique of power and as a collectivizing practice. When children are undergoing painful and invasive treatment, the importance of humour becomes prominent and its social effect and knowledge production more evident.
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