By Barbara Gibson
Rehabilitation is devoted to assisting humans not just live to tell the tale, but in addition thrive. regardless of this complicated aim, the organizing rules of rehabilitation nonetheless depend upon biomedicine to build incapacity as an issue of impaired our bodies. Rehabilitation execs are dedicated to aiding to reinforce people’s lives, yet many fight with easy methods to achieve this in mild of the larger questions concerning their roles in, for instance, operating to take care of desire for restoration and/or selling larger attractiveness of numerous skills. A key challenge is the inability of theoretical instruments for operating throughout the functionality of rehabilitation within the lives of disabled humans.
Rehabilitation, for the main half, displays a slim mechanistic perception of circulation. It considers events of physique constructions akin to joints, practical activities equivalent to strolling, or extra lately, how circulate and mobility facilitate participation in social roles. regardless of a nascent obstacle with the environmental components contributing to disablement, circulation continues to be targeted totally on mobilizing people’s bodies.
Rehabilitation: A Post-critical Approach reexamines the philosophical foundations of rehabilitation, increasing the concept that of move past the actual body.
Drawing from incapacity stories, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, cultural reviews, and bioethics, this theoretically rigorous but accessibly styled text:
- Explores the constraints of biomedicine because the organizing framework of rehabilitation
- Evaluates new instructions to diversify modern rehabilitation practice
- Establishes the parameters for a reconfigured ethics of rehabilitation
By embracing a number of principles of movement—not simply actual, but additionally social, emotional, and political—alternative methods to rehabilitation are revealed.
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While it may be argued that rehabilitation has made great strides in moving away from the so-called medical model of practice through an increased interest in enabling activity and participation, it still largely constructs disability as an individual deficit that is addressed through individual interventions 12 Rehabilitation: A Post-Critical Approach (French and Swain 2001; Hammell 2006; Magasi 2008b). Helping persons is not in and of itself a problem, but the focus on individual bodies decontextualizes disability and off-loads responsibility for change onto disabled people.
To that end, the book is developed with graduate students in mind, but will be useful for anyone across disciplines who is new to post-critical thinking. As a transdisciplinary project, the book integrates research, scholarship, and theories from health sciences, social sciences, philosophy, and disability studies. In doing so, it will be of interest to readers looking to engage in boundary-crossing scholarship and has broader applications outside of rehabilitation to health, education, and social welfare.
