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Rehabilitation: A Post-critical Approach / Edition 1
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Rehabilitation: A Post-critical Approach / Edition 1
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Rehabilitation: A Post-critical Approach / Edition 1
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Rehabilitation, for the most part, reflects a narrow mechanistic conception of movement. It considers movements of body structures such as joints, functional movements such as walking, or more recently, how movement and mobility facilitate participation in social roles. Despite a nascent concern with the environmental factors contributing to disablement, movement is still focused primarily on mobilizing people’s bodies.
reexamines the philosophical foundations of rehabilitation, expanding the concept of movement beyond the physical body.
Drawing from disability studies, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, cultural studies, and bioethics, this theoretically rigorous yet accessibly styled text:
By embracing multiple ideas of movement—not only physical, but also social, emotional, and political—alternative approaches to rehabilitation are revealed.