Disability Research Today (eBook, ePUB)

International Perspectives
Redaktion: Shakespeare, Tom

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Grouped around four central themes - illness and impairment, disabling processes, care and control, and cultural representations - this exciting book presents new voices in disability research, demonstrating its breadth and depth and moving beyond traditional concerns in disability studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317750949
• Artikelnr.: 42509643

Autorenporträt

Tom Shakespeare is Senior Lecturer in Medical Sociology at the Medical School of the University of East Anglia, UK. Previously he worked for the World Health Organization, where he was an author and editor of the World Report on Disability (WHO, 2011), and International Perspectives on Spinal Cord Injury (WHO, 2013). His books include The Sexual Politics of Disability (Cassell, 1996) and Disability Rights and Wrongs (Routledge 2006, 2013). He has been involved in the disability movement since 1986.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Part 1: Illness and Impairment 2. Social Experiences of
Physical Rehabilitation: The Role of the Family 3. Learning from Tojisha
Kenkyu: Mental Health 'Patients' Studying Their Difficulties with Their
Peers 4. The Psycho-Social Impact of Impairment: The Case of Motor Neurone
Disease Part 2: Disabling Processes 5. Beyond the ICF: Italian Network
Strategies for Job Placement of Persons with Disabilities 6. Sites of
Oppression: Dominant Ideologies and Women with Disabilities in India 7. How
to Understand Violence Against Disabled People 8. 'The Invisibles':
Conceptualising the Intersectional Relationships Between Dyslexia, Social
Exclusion and Homelessness Part 3: Care and Control 9. Spaces of
indifference: bureaucratic governance and disability rights in Iceland 10.
Mental Capacity and the Control of Sexuality of People with Intellectual
Disabilites in England and Wales 11. 'My Sister Won't Let Me': Issues of
Control Over One's Own Life as Experienced by Older Women with Intellectual
Disabilities Part 4: Communication and Representation 12. Social
Representations and Inclusive Practices for Disabled Students in Italian
Higher Education: A Mixed-method Analysis of Multiple Perspectives 13. The
Problem of the Supercrip: Representation and Misrepresentation of
Disability 14. User, Client or Consumer? Construction of Roles in Video
Interpreting Services 15. Reading Other Minds: Ethical Considerations on
the Representation of Intellectual Disability in Fiction