Rehabilitation: A Post-Critical Approach Contributor(s): Gibson, Barbara (Author) |
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ISBN: 1138465046 ISBN-13: 9781138465046 Publisher: CRC Press OUR PRICE: $228.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2017 |
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BISAC Categories: - Medical | Allied Health Services - General - Medical | Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation - Technology & Engineering | Industrial Health & Safety |
Dewey: 617.06 |
Physical Information: 180 pages |
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Publisher Description: Rehabilitation is dedicated to helping people not only survive, but also thrive. Despite this complex goal, the organizing principles of rehabilitation still rely on biomedicine to construct disability as a problem of impaired bodies. Rehabilitation professionals are committed to helping to enhance people's lives, but many struggle with how to do so in light of the bigger questions regarding their roles in, for example, working to maintain hope for recovery and/or promoting greater acceptance of diverse abilities. A key problem is the lack of theoretical tools for working through the function of rehabilitation in the lives of disabled people. Explores the limitations of biomedicine as the organizing framework of rehabilitation By embracing multiple ideas of movement not only physical, but also social, emotional, and political alternative approaches to rehabilitation are revealed. |