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The article discusses the dialectical relationship between health policies and social practices based on a synthesis of previous analyses of public documents and interview data. In current health political strategies, rehabilitation has become more about coordination and management of tasks as well as transferring responsibility for health and activating individuals on an overall level, than it is about providing particular clinical services to people with disabilities. An intertextual analysis shows that rehabilitation professionals use such logic when they explain what rehabilitation is.
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The synthesis indicates that the discursive perspective of the authorities delegating power to professionals as clinical practice experts might have been weakened. The perspective of individuals being responsible and accountable for their own health and wellbeing was found to dominate the current rehabilitation discourse. Consequence might be that vulnerable individuals might be deprived from opportunities and put under even higher pressure.
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We hope to contribute by shedding a critical light on an important development in how our society cares for disabled people, to interest in and debate of rehabilitation policies.
Anne-Stine Røberg
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This page is a summary of: Rehabilitation, language, and power: interdiscursive relationships between policy strategies and professional practices in Norway, Critical Discourse Studies, November 2018, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/17405904.2018.1546605.
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