| Edition |
Second edition. |
| Description |
341 pages ; 27 cm |
| Contents |
Preface to the second edition -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction: analysing disability -- Grass roots mobilization -- Sociological perspectives -- A brief word on terminology -- Overview of the book -- 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 -- 3. Sociological approaches to chronic illness and disability -- Functionalism, Parsons and the sick role -- Labelling perspectives and stigmatization -- Negotiated and interpretive accounts -- Medical and professional dominance -- Towards a political economy of medicine and sickness -- Embodiment and post-structuralism -- Review -- 4. Theories of disability -- Welfarism and its discontents -- Theories of disability and oppression -- Disability and social divisions -- Post-modernism: back to the future? -- Review -- 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 -- 6. Routes to independent living -- The critique of residential institutions -- Policy direction towards independence -- Care or independence? -- User-led organizations: centres for independent living -- Direct payments -- Service user involvement -- Review -- 7. Politics and disability politics -- Politics and disabled people -- Civil rights and legislation -- A new social movement? -- Identity politics -- Review -- 8. Culture, the media and identity -- Sociological approaches to culture -- Cultural representations of disability -- Cultural studies approaches -- Towards a disability culture -- Review -- 9. Disability and the right to life -- Ethics, culture and rights -- Disability and eugenics -- Disability and biotechnology -- Life and death decisions -- Review -- 10. Disability and development: global perspectives -- Disability, industrialization and globalization -- Comparative perspectives on impairment -- Poverty, disability and social exclusion -- Internationalization of disability policy -- Disability activism: mobilizing for change -- Review. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [267]-321) and index. |
| Subject |
Sociology of disability.
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People with disabilities -- Research.
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People with disabilities -- Government policy.
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| Added Author |
Mercer, G. (Geoffrey)
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| ISBN |
9780745634852 hardback |
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0745634850 hardback |
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9780745634869 paperback |
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0745634869 paperback |
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