Handbook of Disability StudiesGary L. Albrecht, Katherine D. Seelman, Michael Bury This path-breaking international handbook of disability studies signals the emergence of a vital new area of scholarship, social policy and activism. Drawing on the insights of disability scholars around the world and the creative advice of an international editorial board, the book engages the reader in the critical issues and debates framing disability studies and places them in an historical and cultural context. Five years in the making, this one volume summarizes the ongoing discourse ranging across continents and traditional academic disciplines. To provide insight and perspective, the volume is divided into three sections: The shaping of disability studies as a field; experiencing disability; and, disability in context. Each section, written by world class figures, consists of original chapters designed to map the field and explore the key conceptual, theoretical, methodological, practice and policy issues that constitute the field. Each chapter provides a critical review of an area, positions and literature and an agenda for future research and practice. The handbook answers the need expressed by the disability community for a thought provoking, interdisciplinary, international examination of the vibrant field of disability studies. The book will be of interest to disabled people, scholars, policy makers and activists alike. The book aims to define the existing field, stimulate future debate, encourage respectful discourse between different interest groups and move the field a step forward. |
Contents
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Chapter 2 Counting Disability | 69 |
Chapter 3 Disability Definitions Models Classification Schemes and Applications | 97 |
Chapter 4 Theorizing Disability | 123 |
Chapter 5 Methodological Paradigms That Shape Disability Research | 145 |
An Interactive PersonEnvironment Social Creation | 171 |
Chapter 19 The Role of Social Networks in the Lives of Persons with Disabilities | 468 |
An Analysis of Historical and Cultural Meanings | 490 |
Part III Disability in Context | 513 |
Assimilation or Inclusion? | 515 |
Chapter 22 Identity Politics Disability and Culture | 535 |
Disability Politics and Recognition | 546 |
Chapter 24 Disability Human Rights Law and Policy | 565 |
Chapter 25 The Political Economy of the Disability Marketplace | 585 |
The Uneasy Home of Disability in Literature and Film | 195 |
Chapter 8 Philosophical Issues in the Definition and Social Response to Disability | 219 |
Chapter 9 Disability and the Sociology of the Body | 252 |
Chapter 10 Intellectual DisabilitiesQuo Vadis? | 267 |
Chapter 11 Disability Bioethics and Human Rights | 297 |
Chapter 12 Disability Studies and Electronic Networking | 327 |
Part II Experiencing Disability | 349 |
The Social Experience of Disability | 351 |
Disability Studies and the Exploration of Parental Response to Disability | 373 |
A Sociological Approach | 396 |
Chapter 16 Welfare States and Disabled People | 412 |
Chapter 17 Advocacy and Political Action | 430 |
Chapter 18 Health Care Professionals and Their Attitudes toward Decisions Affecting Disabled People | 450 |
The Role of Markets in the Delivery of Health Services | 610 |
Can We Improve the ReturntoWork Record? | 633 |
An International View | 642 |
Is Disability a Missing Factor? | 663 |
CrossCultural Issues and Dilemmas | 693 |
The Interface between Individuals and Environments | 711 |
Chapter 32 The Relationship between Disabled People and Health and Welfare Professionals | 734 |
Past Present and Future | 754 |
Chapter 34 Disability in the Developing World | 772 |
Author Index | 793 |
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About the Contributors | 843 |
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