Exploring the history of Occupational Therapy's development in South Africa to reveal the flaws in our knowledge base.
This article explores the origins of occupational therapy in South Africa and how its birth, at the end of the Second World War, in a post-colonial era, with an emerging apartheid government, gave rise to an epistemology that was flawed. It was flawed by virtue of its origins within a Eurocentric, p...
| Publicado en: | South African Journal of Occupational Therapy Vol. 40; no. 3; pp. 21 - 27 |
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| Formato: | research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Occupational Therapy Association of South Africa
Dec2010
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