title: The interdisciplinary condition of work in relational professions of the health and social care field: a theoretical standpoint.
abstract: The best-known theories on interdisciplinarity in the health and social care field seek to identify personal characteristics and organizational predispositions favourable to interprofessionnal collaboration. This paper proposes a reversal of this positioning through the theorization of interdisciplinarity in the health and social care field as a condition of the work of its professionals rather than one of their peculiar attributes. To achieve this reversal, we set out the epistemological foundations of the current debate on interdisciplinarity.
authors.affiliation: Research Centre on Aging, Institut universitaire de geriatrie de Sherbrooke, Canada. Yves.Couturier@USherbrooke.ca
authors.forename: Yves
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Couturier
authors.forename: Dominique
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Gagnon
authors.forename: Sébastien
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Carrier
authors.forename: Francis
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Etheridge
mesh_terms: D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D006801:Humans; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D012947:Social Work