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The book provides an accessible introduction to many of the current
theoretical perspectives on disability; enabling readers to challenge
the taken-for-granted nature of traditional knowledge and assumptions
within the rehabilitation, health and community care industries, and
encouraging a more critical approach both to the nature of
rehabilitation following injury or illness and to the 'problem' of
physical difference and disability. Through its interrogation and
exploration of new theoretical perspectives on disability and
rehabilitation, this book provides a unique text for students and
practitioners of nursing, occupational therapy, physiotherapy and
social work and for educators and researchers in these fields.Although
rehabilitation practitioners claim to aspire to client-centred
practice and advocate participatory modes of research, rehabilitation
_theory_ remains curiously estranged both from theoretical
perspectives developed by disabled/disability theorists and from
critical perspectives on 'disability' that are emerging from other
academic disciplines. Thus immune from alternate views, rehabilitation
practitioners fail to question the premise that their professional
assumptions are correct or 'right'. Contemporary theorists raise
important questions, for example, about professional power, concepts
of normality, independence and the physical body - issues central to
rehabilitation - as well as to the role of the cultural environment in
producing prejudice, the role of the social environment in creating
disadvantage; and to issues of power and privilege and of the systemic
oppression of disabled people. This book provides an introduction to
the expanding body of critical work on disability by theorists from a
range of perspectives, illustrating ways in which their theories and
insights contest or support assumptions within rehabilitation theory.
The book argues for a cross-fertilisation of ideas and challenges
hierarchies of power in which nurses and therapists privilege their
own assumptions, perspectives and knowledge while overlooking or
ignoring the perspectives both of disabled people and of other
theorists.
* Provides an accessible introduction to current theoretical
perspectives on disability
* Demonstrates how these theoretical perspectives can inform a
practitioner's approach to rehabilitation
* Relevant for all the rehabilitation and health care professions
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ISBN
9780702032592
Publisert
2018
Utgiver
Vendor
Churchill Livingstone (US)
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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