Rethinking Disability: The Emergence of New Definitions, Concepts and Communities"This book provides an interdisciplinary approach to the challenges of the interface between disability & culture. Twelve papers discuss the following topics: Towards a cultural model of disability. Disability Values, Representations & Realities. Labeling " |
Contents
Toward Definitions and Conceptual Alignment | 23 |
Political and Social Realities in the Schooling | 45 |
Can Disability Be Thought Of In Terms of Difference? HenriJacques Stiker | 79 |
The Disability Studies Paradigm David Pfeiffer | 95 |
Examining the Fit Between Deafness and Disability Susan Foster | 111 |
Looking for Disability | 131 |
Stalemate or Progress Madelyn Iris | 149 |
An Ethnographic Interpretation Gerald Gold | 189 |
Contributors | 205 |
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