Rehabilitation and norms
Résumé
Medical practice aims at creating a norm; as such it is both normalizing and standardizing. It implies evaluations that draw a distinction between what is «normal» and what is pathological: this traditionally defines both its goals and its field of practice. Rehabilitation medicine is both on the margin and at the very heart of this founding distinction, and therefore also of the concepts or representations that underlie the definition of the norm and the actions triggered when a deviation from this norm is observed.