The Elizabeth Casson Memorial Lecture 2010: ‘Jack of All Trades and Master of None’: The Future of Occupational Therapy?

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The Elizabeth Casson Memorial Lecture 2010, given on 24 June at the 34th Annual Conference and Exhibition of the College of Occupational Therapists, held at the Brighton Centre, Brighton, Sussex.

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Research pseudoscience bureaucracy core skills future directions

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