Exploring Disability, 2nd Edition

ISBN: 978-0-7456-3485-2

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288 pages

March 2010, Polity

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Acknowledgements
Preface to the Second Edition
Chapter 1. Introduction: Analysing Disability
- Grass roots mobilisation
- Sociological perspectives
- A brief word on terminology
- Overview of the book
Chapter 2. Competing Models and Approaches
- Socio-historical perspectives
- The individual or medical model of disability
- Looking beyond individual solutions
- The social model of disability
- The biopsychosocial model of disability
- Review
Chapter 3. Sociological Approaches to Chronic Illness and Disability
- Functionalism, Parsons and the sick role
- Labelling perspectives and stigmatisation
- Negotiated and interpretive accounts
- Medical and professional dominance
- Towards a political economy of medicine and sickness
- Embodiment and post structuralism
- Review
Chapter 4. Theories of Disability
- Welfarism and its discontents
- Theories of disability and oppression
- Disability and social divisions
- Postmodernism: back to the future?
- Review
Chapter 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
Chapter 6. Routes to Independent Living
- The critique of residential institutions
- Policy direction towards independence
- Care or independence?
- User led organisations centres for independent living
- Direct payments
- Service user involvement
- Review
Chapter 7. Politics and Disability Politics
- Politics and disabled people
- Civil rights and legislation
- A new social movement?
- Identity politics
- Review
Chapter 8. Culture, the Media and Identity
- Sociological approaches to culture
- Cultural representations of disability
- Cultural studies approaches
- Towards a disability culture
- Review
Chapter 9. Disability and the Right to Life
- Ethics, culture and rights
- Disability and Eugenics
- Disability and biotechnology
- Life and death decisions
- Review
Chapter 10. Disability and Development: Global Perspectives
- Disability, industrialisation and globalization
- Comparative perspectives on impairment
- Poverty, disability and social exclusion
- Internationalization of disability policy
- Disability activism: mobilizing for change
Review
Bibliography