著者

山野 克明

出版者

熊本大学

雑誌

先端倫理研究 : 熊本大学倫理学研究室紀要 (ISSN:18807879)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.7, pp.29-47, 2013-03

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The purpose of this study is to critically consider the present Japanese situationwhere occupational therapy is regarded as a medical practice. Occupationaltherapy which can be practiced only when the physicians write the prescription istreated as a relative medical practice in Japan. However, there have been acriticism on this point from the therapists and the other professions from 1970's to80's. Then, the occupational therapists considered their therapy as a clinicalpractice different from medical practice by the new theories of occupationaltherapy that have been imported from the US and Canada to Japan since 1990's.Occupational therapy which places a high value to the culture and the society forthe patients and their community would not be regarded as a medical practice.Even so, the occupational therapists are not excluded from medical profession.Occupational therapists who practice in Japan may have absolute or relativeoccupational therapy practice which is different from medical practice, becausethey have had their own point of view which they have used the "occupation" as atherapy for the patients.