Description
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 professional training course should be without it."
Mike Oliver, Emeritus Professor, University of Greenwich
"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 ContentsAcknowledgements
Preface to the Second Edition
Chapter 1. Introduction: Analysing Disability
Chapter 2. Competing Models and Approaches
Chapter 3. Sociological Approaches to Chronic Illness and Disability
Chapter 4. Theories of Disability
Chapter 5. Social Exclusion and Disabling Barriers
Chapter 6. Routes to Independent Living
Chapter 7. Politics and Disability Politics
Chapter 8. Culture, the Media and Identity
Chapter 9. Disability and the Right to Life
Chapter 10. Disability and Development: Global Perspectives
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