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Thinking about environment: incorporating geographies of disability into rehabilitation science
Author(s) -
Dyck Isabel,
O'BRIEN PATTI
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
canadian geographer / le géographe canadien
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.35
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1541-0064
pISSN - 0008-3658
DOI - 10.1111/j.0008-3658.2003.00032.x
Subject(s) - neighbourhood (mathematics) , space (punctuation) , meaning (existential) , occupational therapy , sociology , rehabilitation , sociology of health and illness , health care , psychology , epistemology , psychotherapist , computer science , psychiatry , mathematical analysis , philosophy , mathematics , neuroscience , economics , economic growth , operating system
This paper concerns the introduction of geographical perspectives and concepts to health professionals in their analysis of disability or chronic illness. It focuses specifically on a course project, which drew on geographical literature and concepts from social theory in ‘mapping’ the daily routines of people with disability or chronic illness. It presents an analysis of the daily routines of a man with HIV/AIDS, showing the close and recursive interweaving of meanings of space and bodily inscription as a man under palliative care negotiates his body, neighbourhood and medical care. It describes his changing relationship to the spaces constituting his everyday life, and their renewed meaning as medical care becomes a more prominent theme in how such spaces are used. The relevance of this mapping of the chronically ill self into place and space to health professions is discussed through the particular lens of occupational therapy, which seeks to understand theoretically the inter‐linking of client behaviour and ‘environment’ and its implications for clinical reasoning.