Rehabilitation - Gibson, Barbara
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This book reexamines the philosophical foundations of physical rehabilitation, expanding the understanding of movement beyond the physical body. Drawing from disability studies, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, cultural studies, and bioethics, this theoretically rigorous yet accessibly styled text explores the limitations of biomedicine as the organizing framework of rehabilitation, evaluates new directions to diversify rehabilitation practice, and establishes the parameters for a reconfigured ethics of rehabilitation. By embracing multiple ideas of movement-not only physical, but also…mehr

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This book reexamines the philosophical foundations of physical rehabilitation, expanding the understanding of movement beyond the physical body. Drawing from disability studies, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, cultural studies, and bioethics, this theoretically rigorous yet accessibly styled text explores the limitations of biomedicine as the organizing framework of rehabilitation, evaluates new directions to diversify rehabilitation practice, and establishes the parameters for a reconfigured ethics of rehabilitation. By embracing multiple ideas of movement-not only physical, but also social, emotional, and political-new approaches to rehabilitation are revealed.
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Barbara E. Gibson is an associate professor in the Department of Physical Therapy, University of Toronto, and a senior scientist at the Bloorview Research Institute at the Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She holds the Bloorview Children's Hospital Foundation Chair in Childhood Disability Studies. She is a physical therapist and bioethicist, whose research examines the sociopolitical dimensions of childhood disability and rehabilitation. She holds cross appointments at the Centre for Person Centred Research, AUT University, Auckland, New Zealand, and the CanChild Centre for Childhood Disability Research, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. She is an academic fellow at the Centre for Critical Qualitative Health Research and a member of the Joint Centre for Bioethics at the University of Toronto.