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    Exploring disability.

    • Title:Exploring disability.
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    • Author/Creator:Barnes, Colin, 1946-
    • Other Contributors/Collections:Mercer, G. (Geoffrey)
    • Published/Created:Cambridge : Polity, 2010.
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      • Location: c.1  Temporarily shelved at LAW LIBRARY reference room (level 2)Where is this?
      • Call Number: HV1568 .B35 2010
      • Number of Items:1
      • Status:Available
       
    • Library of Congress Subjects:People with disabilities.
      People with disabilities--Social conditions.
    • Edition:2nd ed. / Colin Barnes, Geof Mercer.
    • Description:vii, 341 pages ; 25 cm
    • Summary:An introductory textbook for anyone studying disability. This book provides an overview of the existing literature in the area, and develops an understanding of disability that has implications for both sociology and society.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:9780745634852 (hbk.)
      0745634850 (hbk.)
      9780745634869
      0745634869
    • Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: Analysing Disability
      Grass-roots mobilization
      Sociological perspectives
      brief word on terminology
      Overview of the book
      2. Competing Models and Approaches
      Socio-historical perspectives
      individual or medical model of `disability'
      Looking beyond individual solutions
      social model of disability
      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 interpretative 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
      critique of residential institutions
      Policy directions 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
      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, euthanasia 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.
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