The interdisciplinary condition of work in relational professions of the health and social care field: a theoretical standpoint.
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.
Couturier
Yves
Y
Research Centre on Aging, Institut universitaire de geriatrie de Sherbrooke, Canada. Yves.Couturier@USherbrooke.ca
Gagnon
Dominique
D
Carrier
Sébastien
S
Etheridge
Francis
F
D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D006801:Humans; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D012947:Social Work