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- Title
Critical Disability Studies With Rehabilitation: Re-thinking the human in rehabilitation research and practice.
- Authors
Donya, Donya
- Abstract
This article advances an approach to inquiry called "critical disability studies with rehabilitation sciences." Critical disability studies and rehabilitation sciences arguably occupy opposite ends of a continuum, ranging from a critical stance toward the production of disability, to a medically-derived perspective of disability as a problem requiring intervention. In order to promote a more productive engagement, critical disability studies with rehabilitation sciences unsettles knowledge relations that position these two fields as oppositional and incompatible. This proposed mode of scholarly practice recognizes and addresses sources of tension between the two fields as a means to negotiate understanding regarding the 'nature' of the human being, and what it means to live a 'good' life. To demonstrate the merits of critical disability studies with rehabilitation sciences, the article draws on poststructuralism and critical disability studies to critique the World Health Organization's International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health. The article concludes by discussing how critical disability studies with rehabilitation sciences allows for enhanced scholarship that questions the taken-forgranted values, meanings, and qualities attributed to the category of the human and provides suggestions to creatively re-think rehabilitation theory and practice.
- Subjects
POSTSTRUCTURALISM; DISABILITY studies; TENSION loads; SCHOLARSHIPS; THEORY of knowledge
- Publication
Journal of Humanities in Rehabilitation, 2019, p1
- ISSN
2380-1069
- Publication type
Article