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Book SynopsisThe second edition of this widely used text has been carefully rewritten to ensure that it is up-to-date with cutting-edge debates, evidence, and policy changes.
Trade Review"The key debates around disability are given a thorough airing in this revised edition of a widely used text"
Times Educational Supplement "If students and teachers want one resource to assist in their exploration of disability studies, then this is it. It's up-to-date, comprehensive and coherent, outlining the key themes and issues in a readable way. No-one studying disability on an undergraduate, postgraduate or profession training course should be without it."
Mike Oliver, Emeritus Professor, University of Greenwich
"A deep commitment towards the rights of people with disabilities within the social model of disability shines throughout the entire book, and drives the reader in exploring disability theories with interest and passion."
Angela Genova, University of Urbino
"Exploring Disability is an important, up-to-date, critical and wide-ranging review of key issues that situates the debates and discussion within the growing literature on disability. Exploring Disability should be on the reading lists of many disability studies courses providing as it does the broad overview of where both the discipline and the movement are today. It is a must for academics, policy makers, researchers, and the disability movement."
Marcia Rioux, York Institute for Health Research, Toronto
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface to the Second Edition
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Chapter 1. Introduction: Analysing Disability
- Grass roots mobilisation
- Sociological perspectives
- A brief word on terminology
- Overview of the book
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Chapter 2. Competing Models and Approaches
- Socio-historical perspectives
- The individual or medical model of disability
- Looking beyond individual solutions
- The social model of disability
- The biopsychosocial model of disability
- Review
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Chapter 3. Sociological Approaches to Chronic Illness and Disability
- Functionalism, Parsons and the sick role
- Labelling perspectives and stigmatisation
- Negotiated and interpretive accounts
- Medical and professional dominance
- Towards a political economy of medicine and sickness
- Embodiment and post structuralism
- Review
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Chapter 4. Theories of Disability
- Welfarism and its discontents
- Theories of disability and oppression
- Disability and social divisions
- Postmodernism: back to the future?
- Review
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Chapter 5. Social Exclusion and Disabling Barriers
- Disability policy and the welfare state
- Education
- Financial circumstances
- Employment
- Built environment, housing and transport
- Leisure and social participation
- Review
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Chapter 6. Routes to Independent Living
- The critique of residential institutions
- Policy direction towards independence
- Care or independence?
- User led organisations centres for independent living
- Direct payments
- Service user involvement
- Review
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Chapter 7. Politics and Disability Politics
- Politics and disabled people
- Civil rights and legislation
- A new social movement?
- Identity politics
- Review
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Chapter 8. Culture, the Media and Identity
- Sociological approaches to culture
- Cultural representations of disability
- Cultural studies approaches
- Towards a disability culture
- Review
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Chapter 9. Disability and the Right to Life
- Ethics, culture and rights
- Disability and Eugenics
- Disability and biotechnology
- Life and death decisions
- Review
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Chapter 10. Disability and Development: Global Perspectives
- Disability, industrialisation and globalization
- Comparative perspectives on impairment
- Poverty, disability and social exclusion
- Internationalization of disability policy
- Disability activism: mobilizing for change
- Review
- Bibliography
