ABSTRACT
Across all professions, there is an expectation that those in the business of helping others should be fit to perform this task. To a degree this is a notion common to all work, which is why there are occupational health systems and legal and medical opinions on fitness to work. It is also common to personal and unpaid aspects of life where one person is responsible for another – parents can be declared ‘unfit’, and systems substituted to care for children until or unless a sufficient ‘fitness’ returns.
