Dealing with In/dependence

Doctoring in Physical Rehabilitation Practice

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5337610
AutoresRita Struhkamp (University of Twente, the Netherlands), A Mol (0000-0001-8675-2219, University of Twente), Tsjalling Swierstra (0000-0001-5596-5633, University of Twente, the Netherlands)
Año2009
Volumen34
Número1
Páginas55-76
Fecha de publicación2009-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaScience Technology & Human Values (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0162-2439 • E-ISSN: 1552-8251
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0162243907312954
OpenAlexW2088580188
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas35
Referencias citadas29

By now, the laboratory tradition, crafting transportable knowledge that allows for comparison, has been amply studied. However, other knowledge traditions, notably that of the clinic, deserve further articulation. The authors contribute to this by unraveling some specificities of rehabilitation practice. How do laboratory and clinical traditions in rehabilitation relate to independence? The first seeks to quantify people's independence; the latter attends to qualitatively different ways of being independent. While measuring independence is a matter of aggregating scores on a priori established dimensions, clinical rehabilitation concerns coordinating different ways of being independent. While independence scales map a linear development in time, rehabilitation participants juggle with time, including uncertain futures in their present. In clinical practice, then, independence is neither a single, coherent, fact nor a clear-cut, stable goal. Instead, professionals as well as patients work by creatively doctoring with the large variety of elements that are relevant to daily life with long-term disabilities

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