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Perspectives on disability and rehabilitation: contesting assumptions; challenging practice
- Author:
- HAMMELL Karen Whalley
- Publisher:
- Churchill Livingstone
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 258p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
This book seeks to guide professionals and academics from disciplines that rely upon the presence of disability in society such as nursing, occupational health and physiotherapy, through the recent explosion of publications from theorists in the humanities and social sciences, and from cultural, feminist, race, queer and disability theorists, which have contested the way in which disability is understood and managed. The author asks rehabilitation practitioners to question whether their professional assumptions are either benevolent or right and aims to stimulate a more critical approach to both the “problem” of physical difference and disability and the nature of rehabilitation following illness or injury. Relating eclectic theoretical viewpoints to practical examples throughout, this book questions the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) definition of disability, highlights the consequences of being classified as deviant from valued norms and the role that traditional rehabilitation methods may play in the perpetuation of injustice. With chapters on issues central to rehabilitation, such as the nature of the body and its physical impairment and the ideas of independence, privilege and power within more client-centred philosophies, the author seeks to update and improve the education, practice, service delivery, research and theoretical development of the rehabilitation professions.
Caring for people with disabilities in the Haredi community: adjustment mechanism in action
- Authors:
- LIFSHITZ Hefzibah, GLAUBMAN Rivka
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 19(5), August 2004, pp.469-484.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This study aims at examining the change in caring for individuals with developmental disability in the Haredi (Jewish ultra-Orthodox) community in Israel. Using qualitative methods, the authors examined the setting up and operating of educational, residential, and recreational facilities for this population. Of the 31 such facilities in two Israeli cities, 16 were randomly selected. The findings revealed three central issues expressing the process of a gradual change in the attitudes and in the forms of caring for persons with disabilities in this sector: (a) social crisis as a catalyst for change; (b) the Social model and rehabilitation principles; and (c) the role of the rabbis in the change process. These issues were explained based on the concept of 'adjustment mechanism'.
Sexual aspects of rehabilitation: the client's perspective
- Authors:
- NORTHCOTT Rebekah, CHARD Gill
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 63(9), September 2000, pp.412-418.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Outlines the findings of a small-scale study that explored disabled people's experiences of the sexual aspects of rehabilitation. It focuses on whether this should be the role of the occupational therapist or not. The findings from this study suggest that any health professional would be appropriate for this responsibility, including occupational therapists, but that they would need specialist training. Health professionals who work with clients with specific sexual needs are likely to require additional training in this sensitive area.
Foucault and the government of disability
- Editors:
- TREMAIN Shelley, (ed.)
- Publisher:
- University of Michigan Press
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 340p.
- Place of publication:
- Ann Arbour, MI
This collection of essays considers the relevance of Foucault to the phenomenon of disability, and the significance of disability studies to understanding and interpreting Foucault. This collection is a response to Foucault's call to question what is regarded as natural, inevitable, ethical, and liberating; hence, contributors draw on Foucault to scrutinize a range of widely endorsed practices and ideas surrounding disability, including rehabilitation, community care, impairment, normality and abnormality, inclusion, prevention, accommodation, and special education.