| Abstract/Notes |
The aim Of Perspectives on Disability and Rehabilitation: Contesting Assumptins: Challenging Practice is to provide an accessible introduction to many diffrent theoretical perspectives, using these insights to contest prevailing assumtions about disability,to explore issues of power and professional dominance and to unmask and challenge the pradigms, practice and ediologies of rehabilitation. The book encourages readers to question the taken-for-granted nature of traditional knowledge and assumptions within the rehabilitation,health and community care industries,and aims to stimulate a more critical approach both to the nature of rehabilitation following injuriy or illness and to the"Problem" of physical difference and disabilty. It relates ecletic theoritical view-points to practical examples to sueggest ways in which a renewed Understanding of both disability and rehabilitationmight contribute to a more equitable and productive relationship betwen disabled people and those who work in the fields of health and social care. Trough its interrogatoin and exploration of different theorotical perspectives on disability and rehabilitation, this book provides a unique text for students and practitioners of nursing,occupational therapy,physiotherapi and social work and for educators and researchers in those fields. The meaning ascribed to the concept to disability deteremines its response. Drawing upon diverse perspectives this book providfs different ways of thinking about disability and suggests new directions for rehabilityitation research,theory,practice and service delivery. |
