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REHABILITATION THE ANALYSIS OF A CONCEPT
Author(s) -
FORD BRUCE
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1973.tb110779.x
Subject(s) - charter , rehabilitation , ideology , identification (biology) , variety (cybernetics) , service (business) , service delivery framework , public relations , sociology , welfare , process (computing) , psychology , political science , business , law , computer science , politics , marketing , botany , artificial intelligence , biology , operating system , neuroscience
An historical, organizational and conceptual analysis of rehabilitation services demonstrates that the ideological principle behind the rehabilitation process has been defined differently at separate points in history, both because of moral attitudes to disability, and in more recent history because of “cluster identification”. A variety of concepts of rehabilitation have developed and these have been incorporated into the institutionalized structures our society uses for the delivery of medical, educational and welfare services. The organization of these structures is largely influenced by the historical attitudes and “clusters” identified in the past, and has no mechanism for the identification of individual needs outside its charter of service, and no authority to service such needs.