Disability Studies - Sociology

This book pulls together essays from a diverse group of well-qualified international scholars who are also teachers with disabilities. The scholars represent a broad spectrum of disabilities and academic disciplines and the chapters interrogate the experience of living and working as teachers who ha..

This book is recommended reading for students, researchers and activists interested in Disability Studies and is directly relevant to policy makers and practitioners in a position to reshape rights, spaces and innovations in response to the priorities disabled people feel and articulate are importan..

First published in 1990, this book was the first informed study to focus on care within the voluntary sector. Written with the child in mind, it sensitively explores the administration, strategy, and problems facing carers in children’s homes, at that time. Centring on small, community-based facilit..

This collection explores the place of law in political, social, and biomedical developments relating to disability and other categories of ‘abnormality’. It shows how law produces cultural meanings, and expressions of disability, and how law is constituted by cultures of disability. It was published..

This book is a case study which narrates the history of the National Organization of the Spanish Blind (ONCE). Contrary to other affluent countries where most blind people live on welfare benefits, the Spanish blind enjoy full employment. The average income of the Spanish blind is higher than that o..

First published in 1986, this book reviews research on the role parents play in fostering the early development of children with mental handicaps. Professionals and parents must work together to give such children the chance of living as ordinary lives as possible and here, the author develops a bro..

First published in 1986, this book reviews research on the role parents play in fostering the early development of children with mental handicaps. Professionals and parents must work together to give such children the chance of living as ordinary lives as possible and here, the author develops a bro..

Bringing together a range of perspectives from communication and disability studies scholars, this collection provides a theoretical foundation along with practical solutions for the inclusion of disability studies within the everyday curriculum. It examines a variety of aspects of communication stu..

This title offers the first comprehensive, book-length analysis of disability through the lens of Science and Technology Studies (STS). Relevant to a broad spectrum of practicing social service workers, the book will also be essential reading in the fields of disability studies, sociology of the bod..

This title offers the first comprehensive, book-length analysis of disability through the lens of Science and Technology Studies (STS). Relevant to a broad spectrum of practicing social service workers, the book will also be essential reading in the fields of disability studies, sociology of the bod..

This path-breaking book analyses young sporting women with physical disabilities and explores their experiences of living with a body which, on the one hand, is viewed as deviant – the disabled body – and on the other hand is viewed as accomplished – the sporting body...

This path-breaking book analyses young sporting women with physical disabilities and explores their experiences of living with a body which, on the one hand, is viewed as deviant – the disabled body – and on the other hand is viewed as accomplished – the sporting body...