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Disability: a Life Course Approach provides students and teachers with easy access to many of the most important current disability issues and debates. It provides a clearly focused account, and bridges some important gaps in the existing disability literature by including issues relevant to disabled people of all ages.

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"Every now and again a book comes along that is both timely and useful. Priestley's Disability: A Life Course Approach is such a book...well researched and contains useful and interesting source materials for students...the book is important and should have wide appeal to students and academics in disability studies and related fields."

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Table of Contents
Introduction.

Chapter 1: Generating disability.

Chapter 2: Birth rights.

Chapter 3: Disability and childhood.

Chapter 4: Transition? What transition?.

Chapter 5: The myths and realities of adulthood.

Chapter 6: Becoming older.

Chapter 7: A matter of life and death.

Conclusion

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      Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 18/03/2003
      ISBN13: 9780745625126, 978-0745625126
      ISBN10: 0745625126
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Disability: a Life Course Approach provides students and teachers with easy access to many of the most important current disability issues and debates. It provides a clearly focused account, and bridges some important gaps in the existing disability literature by including issues relevant to disabled people of all ages.

      Trade Review
      "Every now and again a book comes along that is both timely and useful. Priestley's Disability: A Life Course Approach is such a book...well researched and contains useful and interesting source materials for students...the book is important and should have wide appeal to students and academics in disability studies and related fields."

      Sociology



      Table of Contents
      Introduction.

      Chapter 1: Generating disability.

      Chapter 2: Birth rights.

      Chapter 3: Disability and childhood.

      Chapter 4: Transition? What transition?.

      Chapter 5: The myths and realities of adulthood.

      Chapter 6: Becoming older.

      Chapter 7: A matter of life and death.

      Conclusion

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