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Exploring disability.
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Title:Exploring disability.
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Author/Creator:Barnes, Colin, 1946-
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Other Contributors/Collections:Mercer, G. (Geoffrey)
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Published/Created:Cambridge : Polity, 2010.
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Call Number: HV1568 .B35 2010
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Number of Items:1
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Status:Available
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Library of Congress Subjects:People with disabilities.
People with disabilities--Social conditions.
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Edition:2nd ed. / Colin Barnes, Geof Mercer.
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Description:vii, 341 pages ; 25 cm
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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.
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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ISBN:9780745634852 (hbk.)
0745634850 (hbk.)
9780745634869
0745634869
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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.