The profession of occupational therapy has been defined as follows: Occupational therapy is the art and science of directing man's participation in selected tasks to restore, reinforce and enhance performance, facilitate learning of those skills and functions essential for adaptation and productivity, diminish or correct pathology, and to promote and maintain health. Reference to occupation in ...

Placing scientific knowledge onto a visual grid through malaria maps became a way of re-envisioning the landscape of Palestine during the period of British rule. Malaria maps were not only used by scientists to effect practical results in swamp drainage and in other efforts to decrease malaria morbidity, but they were also co-opted by political organizations and the Palestine Government as tool...

The life and work of the early Zionist, later Diaspora nationalist president First Yiddish Language Conference in Czernowitz, Nathan Birnbaum, is usually considered as contradictory extreme. However, I argue this article, Birnbaum remained consistent his understanding people nation that was shaped by Herder German romanticism - what actually changed were political social conditions Middle Easte...

AIMS The aim of this research was to explore and capture complementary therapists' experiences of and preparation for working with patients in an acute cancer care setting. METHOD Semi structured interviews with therapists (n = 18) in an acute cancer hospital in the North West of England. The interviews were transcribed and analysed using thematic coding. RESULTS Key themes identified inclu...

This article takes the May 2021 uprising in Palestine, known as Unity Intifada, a prism to map old and new political geographies between coloniser freedom-fighter, whose significance extends beyond temporal limits of event. The first part paper investigates role identity cultural re-enforcing Jewish claims sovereignty. It shows how Zionist production pink (sexed/gendered), red (racializing/indi...