Bringing an Ethnographic Sensibility to Children’s Rehabilitation: Contributions and Potential

In this chapter, we examine the applications and contributions of ethnographic approaches in children’s rehabilitation. Central to our argument is the idea that ethnography is a sensibility, meaning, a particular mindset that both informs, and flows from, ethnographic methods of data collection. We begin by presenting our definition of ethnographic sensibility and show how this sensibility is deployed in existing literature in children’s rehabilitation. We consider its potential and limitations as well as how it could be cultivated in children’s rehabilitation and the health sciences more broadly.