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2nd ed. |
| Description |
xiii, 623 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations and terms -- Introduction -- pt. I. Definitions of disability -- 1. Defining disability -- The universality of disability, or disability is a natural part of everyone's life -- Does anyone know what "normal" is? -- The link between the academic discipline of statistics and eugenics -- Categorizing disabilities -- Physical disabilities -- Intellectual disabilities -- Cognitive disabilities -- Psychiatric disabilities -- Does everyone have a disability of some sort? -- There are more disabilities than ever before -- Six reasons for increasing disability rates -- 2. Models of disability : the biomedical model, the environmental model, the functional model, and the sociopolitical model -- What are models of disability? -- The biomedical model of disability -- The environmental model of disability -- The functional model of disability -- The sociopolitical model of disability -- Models of disability, American legislation, and agencies that serve persons with disabilities -- Dichotomy or continuum? -- Additional categories of disabilities -- The Americans with Disabilities Act : equal opportunity under the law -- The ADA definition of disability -- Results of the ADA -- Talking about disability -- Labels that attempt to describe all those different from the majority. |
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pt. II. Society and disability -- 3. Sources of prejudice and discrimination, part 1 -- Societal prejudices often become self-identifiers -- Prejudice against people with disabilities (PWDs) today in the United States -- The outcomes of the ADA -- Examining prejudice and discrimination against PWDs -- The economic threat -- The safety threat -- The ambiguity of disability -- The salience of the perceived defining nature of the disability -- Spread or overgeneralization -- Assisted suicide -- 4. Sources of prejudice and discrimination, part 2 -- Moral accountability for the cause of disability -- Moral accountability for the management of the disability -- The inferred emotional consequence of the disability, or difficult does not mean tragic -- Society's emphasis on health, fitness, and beauty -- Fear of acquiring a disability or existential angst, or "there but for the grace of God go I" -- Three societal responses to disability -- Charity telethons or "elephants running in the forest" -- Civil rights for PWDs -- What is justice? -- 5. The effects of prejudice and discrimination -- Are disabilities viewed as difference or as deviance? -- Are PWDs "differently challenged"? -- Do disabilities always lead to social inferiority? -- Handicapism -- The handicapism of well-intentioned people -- The contact theory -- Equal social status contact -- Perceptions of the disability that may be associated with prejudice -- The degree of visibility of the disability -- Other factors that influence the perception of PWDs -- "Disabled heroes" -- The drawbacks to having disabled heroes -- Aesthetic qualities of the disability -- Impression management -- Simulation exercises -- 6. Experiencing prejudice and discrimination -- Introduction -- Stereotyping -- Pity -- Role entrapment -- Lowered expectations, or "let's give those poor disabled people a break" -- Lack of privacy -- Hypervisibility and overobservation -- Solo status -- Token status -- Paternalism -- Infantilization -- Viewing PWDs as objects -- Viewing PWDs as animals -- Unnecessary dependence -- Equal social status relationships -- The media's portrayal of PWDs -- Crime and abuse of people with disabilities -- Second-class citizenship (for which Americans must assume collective responsibility) -- Comparing handicapism to racism. |
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pt. III. The individual and disability -- 7. The individual's response to disability -- View from the outside versus life on the inside -- Acceptance of disability or response to disability -- What is a "good" response to a disability? -- Cognitive restructuring -- What is a poor response to a disability? -- Secondary gains, malingering, and psychogenic pain disorder -- Problems in measuring an individual's response to a disability -- The stage model of adaptation to disability -- The stages of response in disability -- Transcendence -- Advantages of the stage theory -- Cautions in implementing the stage theory -- Appendix 7-A. First-person narratives of people with disabilities -- Appendix 7-B. Acceptance of disability scale -- 8. The onset and diagnosis of the disability -- Factors that affect the impact of the onset of disability -- Time of onset -- Parents of children with congenital disabilities -- Atypical childhood experiences -- Hearing children of parents who are deaf -- Prelingual deafness -- Congenital blindness or blindness acquired in infancy -- Residential schools -- Acquired disabilities -- The developmental stage of acquisition -- Type of onset -- The impact of a long prediagnosis period -- 9. Other factors of the disability -- The course of the disability -- The phases or stages of the course of a disability -- The three types of courses -- Degenerating episodic disabilities -- Communication difficulties -- The meaning of the loss of functioning -- Severity of the disability -- Quality of life -- Pain and trauma of the disability -- Chronic pain -- Psychogenic pain disorder -- More about pain -- The degree of stigma directed toward the disability -- The degree of visibility of the disability -- Degree of disfigurement of the disability -- Body image -- Disfigurements as social handicaps -- The treatment of individuals with disfiguring disabilities -- Services -- The perspective of the client/consumer -- What do PWDs want from professional care providers? -- Autonomy, independence, and control -- The importance of social support -- Conclusion -- Epilogue -- Index -- About the author. |
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People with disabilities -- Social conditions.
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Discrimination against people with disabilities.
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Sociology of disability.
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Disabled Persons.
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Attitude.
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Disabled Persons -- psychology.
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Prejudice.
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Discrimination against people with disabilities. (OCoLC)fst00895020
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People with disabilities -- Social conditions.
(OCoLC)fst01057340
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Sociology of disability. (OCoLC)fst01123936
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| ISBN |
9781416403722 |
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1416403728 |
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