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Shakespeare, Tom, Cooper, Harriet, Bezmez, Dikmen and Poland, Fiona 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0003-6911
(2018)
Rehabilitation as a disability equality issue: A conceptual shift for disability studies?
Social Inclusion, 6 (1).
pp. 61-72.
ISSN 2183-2803
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Abstract
Rehabilitation is a controversial subject in disability studies, often discussed in terms of oppression, normalisation, and unwanted intrusion. While there may be good reasons for positioning rehabilitation in this way, this has also meant that, as a lived experience, it is under-researched and neglected in disabilities literature, as we show by surveying leading disability studies journals. With some notable exceptions, rehabilitation research has remained the preserve of the rehabilitation sciences, and such studies have rarely included the voices of disabled people themselves, as we also demonstrate by surveying a cross-section of rehabilitation science literature. Next, drawing on new research, we argue for reframing access to rehabilitation as a disability equality issue. Through in-depth discussion of two case studies, we demonstrate that rehabilitation can be a tool for inclusion and for supporting an equal life. Indeed, we contend that rehabilitation merits disability researchers’ sustained engagement, precisely to ensure that a ‘right-based rehabilitation’ policy and practice can be developed, which is not oppressive, but reflects the views and experiences of the disabled people who rehabilitation should serve.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | concept,disability,equality,rehabilitation,rights |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Norwich Medical School Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > School of Health Sciences |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Dementia & Complexity in Later Life Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Epidemiology and Public Health Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Public Health and Health Services Research (former - to 2023) |
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| Depositing User: | Pure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Apr 2018 14:30 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Oct 2022 18:35 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/66697 |
| DOI: | 10.17645/si.v6i1.1175 |
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